Fluoxetine Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Prozac
What is Fluoxetine?
Fluoxetine is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant. It is used to treat major depressive disorder, moderate to severe bulimia nervosa, obsessive compulsive and panic disorders. Off label used with selective mutism and dementia related agitation.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Depression | 62 |
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15 | |
| Fibromyalgia | 26 |
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5 | ||
| Anxiety | 8 |
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3 | |||
| stab in the dark to treat 'unknown' cause of pain and fatigue, then as part of 'cocktail' for Dx Fibromyalgia | 6 |
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1 | ||||
| Other | 2 | 0 | |||||
| Nerve pain (neuropathic pain) | 2 |
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See all 114 patients currently taking Fluoxetine
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Fluoxetine. See all 11 dosages ►
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Side effects too severe
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10 | 37% |
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Did not seem to work
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8 | 30% |
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Doctor's advice
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7 | 26% |
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Other
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4 | 15% |
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Personal research
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3 | 11% |
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Expense
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1 | 4% |
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Not indicated
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1 | 4% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
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- Dream Weaver
- Sex: F
- Pain: Most
- Fatigue: All
- Sleep: All
- Stiffness: All
- function: Little
- external_stress: Some
- Stickman: all
- Description:F40y
- FM:5y Dx
- See profile
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- Dream Weaver
- 10 mg daily
- since Dec 06, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Fibromyalgia
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Side Effects
Mild
- See full evaluation
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- Gidget
- Sex: F
- Pain: Most
- Fatigue: Most
- Sleep: All
- Stiffness: All
- function: Little
- external_stress: Little
- Stickman: all
- Description:F48y
- FM:10y Dx
- See profile
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- Gidget
- 10 mg daily
- since Dec 11, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Fibromyalgia
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Side Effects
Moderate
- Advice/Tips It covers the neuroreceptor in the brain that reabsorbs serotonin See full evaluation
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- phnx3
- Sex: F
- Pain: Some
- Fatigue: All
- Sleep: Some
- Stiffness: None
- function: Some
- external_stress: Little
- Stickman: some
- Description:F55y
- FM:2y Dx
- CFS:2y Dx
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- phnx3
- 20 mg
- since Oct 01, 1995
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Efficacy
None
for Mood swings
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Side Effects
Severe
- Advice/Tips Do not take Prozac unless you are absolutely sure that there is NOTHING else that could be prescribed & that the doctors are also absolutely sure of what is ... See full evaluation
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Report created on November 24, 2009.