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I feeling like a jerk after stopped fluoxetine?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Get in touch with: Your physician/ psychiatrist about restarting Prozac (fluoxetine) or another ssri.

Answered 6/30/2014

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Dr. Lincoln Bickford answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Prob. symptom return: Prozac takes a long time to leave the body fully (5-day half-life, so weeks). So this is unlikely a withdrawal syndrome as can be seen with other antidepressants. More likely is a reoccurence of the symptoms (eg depression or anxiety) that the fluoxetine was treating.

Answered 6/30/2014

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