Re: waiting for prozac to work...please!

[Guest guest]

Do you give the prozac or generic in the morning or at night? Morning works

best for us. in Houston

[Guest guest]

-I haven't been following the list lately but wanted to reply to you

because we are also waiting for prozac to work. My child came off

celexa and just started prozac on Saturday. It's been just

horrible. Our home doesn't seem to have any happiness anymore. Just

anger and sadness and crying. We don't know how to handle our child

anymore. He can't do any homework. Just getting throught the day is

a big enough challange. He's not keeping up at school. Doesn't want

to go to school anymore. I don't blame him. Some kids stare at him

and he knows that they think he's weird. Trying to do work is really

hard for him. He doesn't even want to get out of bed anymore because

of all the compulsions he has to do. This made him an hour late for

school yesterday. It now seems to be affecting his sister. She

cries over every little thing and worries about me crying. I just

feel like all of us are falling apart. I just keep praying that the

prozac will start to work soon because I just can't take every day

being like this. I didn't know it could get this bad. We got in to

the psyciatrist today on an emergency appointment but my husband had

to take our son to it without me because our daughter got sick. I'm

still waiting for them to come home. Hopefully he has something to

help us. Anyways I'm sure it'll get better. I just hope its soon.

I'm sure it'll get better for you too. It's a very sad thing to

watch a child go through. -- In

, " Sandy Dunavan " <sdunavan@e...>

wrote:

> <<I just wanted to let you know that it has never taken 12 weeks for

> medication to work for my daughter - you might see improvement much

sooner.

> At any rate, you will almost certainly see SOME improvement sooner

if

> Prozac is going to help him>>

>

> Thanks for this, it helps to hear it. I just wish we had tried

this when

> everything started going south a month ago, it is so hard to see

him go

> from happy to cringing and crying in the course of a minute (like

when we

> started walking into school this morning). One of his

avoidance/compulsion

> things right now is not walking where someone else has, and it was

brutal

> trying to get through the front doors of the school. When he did

get in,

> he ran to a water fountain and started patting water on the soles

of his

> boots (kind of a washing thing, yet one that is obviously 'normally'

> unsanitary).

>

> At least he is making it to school but it is not productive there

at all.

> In some ways, I'd like to just let him stay him until this gets a

little

> better, but I'm afraid that would be a slippery slope type of thing

and it

> would make it difficult for him to go at all. But it horrible to

see him

> so tormented and exhausted at the end of the day.

>

> <<The absence of behaviors tends to be much harder to notice than

the

> presence of irritating or worrying behaviors.>>

>

> Believe me, I'll notice when he doesn't try and duck away from

people in

> stores, the library, etc. anymore!

>

> Has anyone mentioned vivid dreams and/or insomnia as a side-effect

of

> Prozac (or actually the generic fluoxetine)? We're getting a bit

of that

> now, nothing too major. At least no major horrible behavioral side

effects

> yet (why the p-doc is being ultra cautious in raising his dose, she

thinks

> he is very sensitive to meds. in general).

>

> thanks, Sandy

[Guest guest]

Hi Sandy,

Seems I've read somewhere about vivid dreams before. Also insomnia.

Can't recall what medication it related to but I'm sure it had to be

an SSRI since I read so many OCD notes here and in another group.

Poor little guy, I just applaud him for making it TO school with all

the anxiety/stress!! Perhaps that might be his only goal for now and

then add a little later (re the fountain or getting ready for school).

I'm sure as the medication builds up in his system towards a more

therapeutic dose, that you'll both see improvement!

Keep us updated.

> <<I just wanted to let you know that it has never taken 12 weeks for

> medication to work for my daughter - you might see improvement much

sooner.

> At any rate, you will almost certainly see SOME improvement sooner

if

> Prozac is going to help him>>

>

> Thanks for this, it helps to hear it. I just wish we had tried

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

(((hugs))), I've been there with my own crying back when we all, and

I mean ALL, began dealing with 's OCD. Hugs to little sis too!

I pray the Prozac kicks in soon. How did today's appt go?

> -I haven't been following the list lately but wanted to reply to

you

> because we are also waiting for prozac to work. My child came off

> celexa and just started prozac on Saturday. It's been just

> horrible. Our home doesn't seem to have any happiness anymore.

Just

> anger and sadness and crying. We don't know how to handle our

child