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What are the precautions when taking this medicine?
• If you are 65 or older, use this medicine with caution. You could have more side effects.
• If you have been taking this medicine for several weeks, talk with healthcare provider before stopping. You may want to gradually withdraw this medicine.
• If you have heart disease, talk with healthcare provider.
• If you have seizures, talk with healthcare provider.
• Check medicines with healthcare provider. This medicine may not mix well with other medicines.
• You may not be alert. Avoid driving, doing other tasks or activities until you see how this medicine affects you.
• Avoid alcohol (includes wine, beer, and liquor) or other medicines and natural products that slow your actions and reactions.
• Tell healthcare provider if you are pregnant or plan on getting pregnant.
• Tell healthcare provider if you are breast-feeding.
What are some possible side effects of this medicine?
• Feeling lightheaded, sleepy, having blurred vision, or a change in thinking clearly. Avoid driving, doing other tasks or activities that require you to be alert or have clear vision until you see how this medicine affects you.
• Feeling dizzy. Rise slowly over several minutes from sitting or lying position. Be careful climbing.
• Diarrhea.
• Constipation. More liquids, regular exercise, or a fiber-containing diet may help. Talk with healthcare provider about a stool softener or laxative.
• Dry mouth. Frequent mouth care, sucking hard, sugar-free candy, or chewing sugar-free gum may help.
• Headache.
Reasons to call healthcare provider immediately
• If you suspect an overdose, call your local poison control center or emergency department immediately.
• Signs of a life-threatening reaction. These include wheezing; chest tightness; fever; itching; bad cough; blue skin color; fits; or swelling of face, lips, tongue, or throat.
• If you are planning to harm yourself or the desire to harm yourself increases.
• Severe dizziness or passing out.
• Penile erection that lasts longer than 4 hours.
• Significant change in thinking clearly and logically.
• Agitation, twitching, sweating, or muscle stiffness.
• Significant change in balance.
• Unable to pass urine.
• Feeling extremely tired or weak.
• Unusual bruising or bleeding.
• Any rash.
• No improvement in condition or feeling worse.
The doc didn't warn me not to quit taking it and it caused me to become suicidal/homicidal when I did quit it abruptly. I I I would not recommend this medication to anyone. It is dangerous!
Hi Richard, thank you for the warning. Prozac is another psychiatric medication that is dangerous to stop abruptly. Indeed, with most (if not all) psychiatric medications there can be side effects from both taking them as well as quitting them. The reason for this is the medications shifts levels of hormones and neurotransmitters in the brain to re-balance brain chemistry. Stopping the medication disrupts the medication's effects. It is very important to be able to communicate with your physician, or ideally your psychiatrist, to discuss the effects of the medication and establish a plan for tapering off or switching to a different medication.