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Originally Posted by ozzy1313
As I wrote in my last thread, I have lowered my prozac from 40 to 20. Something my pdoc had mentioned months ago. The past week or so has gotten worse and worse. I am so irritable, mean, antsy, and just uncomfortable in my skin. Yet all I can do is sleep every chance I get. Family is starting to mention what a bad mood I am in. I can't make myself do anything except what absolutely needs to be done (work, drive kids, etc) yet I feel like I want to do something huge and earth shattering. wtf is going on? Could all this be from one stupid little 20mg pill? If so then that pisses me off and makes me want to just go for it and stop taking all of them.
I should add that up until May I worked a day job and that kept me on a schedule. I now work nights which means I have 7 hours of open time to myself. Today I attempted to mow the lawn but when I saw that the gas can was empty I sent a mean text to my husband and instead of getting gas I just said f*** it and went to lay on the couch again.
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I doubt that it is from that pill alone. You are taking two AD's, one of which - Prozac - is known to have a pronounced mania-inducing property in bipolar people. You are taking Lamictal, which is not a true MS because it mainly helps with the depressive side only. You are not taking anything that would shield and protect you from the mania-inducing qualities of Prozac. So what does the pdoc expect to happen? You are irritable and suffer from dysphoric hypomania, which is in line with the non-standard medication regiment you are on. Go back to the pdoc and complain complain complain.