What happens when you cold turkey stop taking prozac?



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You can have severe withdrawl symptoms and side effects
Such as sweating, anxiety, nausea, irritability.etc
Those types of medications are best being stopped gradually with the help of a Dr

it is highly recommended to taper the dose to a stop, the symptoms of depression can get very bad and worse if you stop cold turkey, good luck
you save money. it's like smoking. you can save a lot by stop taking your pills. even make money if you sell them to other people.
Your depression could get to the point of suicidal thoughts or actions. Taper off!
Please, you need to have better sense than to do that. Your physician should have explained to you when you went on it that you would have to ween yourself off of this med. If you take it upon yourself to stop taking it "cold turkey" you need to be prepared for some of the worst withdrawals you can imagine. Play it safe and do it the right way. Get in touch with the prescribing physician and let him/her know what is going on with you and taking the drug.

It is your body and nobody can make you do anything you don't want to do. It is up to you and you alone to take care of your body and mind. Make the wise decision and call your prescribing doctor.
You could experience side effects. Most likely you will. Headaches, diziness, funny feelings in your brain that I can't even describe. Sometimes it's kind of scary. Don't do it. To get off it the slow way usually only takes about a month. Try that instead.
Prozac stays in your system for quite a while. You may think you are ok at first but then it will hit you pretty hard. If you are determined enough to hang in there you can do it. I know some one that has quit and been off for 5 months. It is well out of his
system by now, and he is doing just fine.
NEVER abruptly stop taking any kind of depression med...this is not good at all. You could have serious anxiety or depression issues..always talk to you doctor about switiching to something else or tapering off.
The longer a drug’s half-life - the time it takes for half the amount of drug in the body to be eliminated - the less likely it is to cause withdrawal problems. Eli Lilly’s Prozac, for example, has a long half-life, remaining in the body for days or even weeks after someone stops taking it. As a result, people who take it are less likely to experience withdrawal effects.

“With Prozac, it can take six weeks for any symptoms to occur,” Dr. Rosenbaum said, and even then the effects are mild, with about 5 to 6 percent of people experiencing mild dizziness.
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