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Not So Great Today - 5 Full Weeks on Prozac




Not so great today...Ewen woke feeling depressed and he was huffing a lot. He had to come with me to drop his sister off at his old school, as she still attends school there On the way back I asked if his wiggly leg thing was better and he said no. I asked what it felt like and he told me that he has to keep tightening his muscle in his leg over and over and over and over again and can't stop. If he does he said it is like torture. So I don't know if this side effect (I think it is a side effect because he never had this before) is worth it. I told him we would give it two more weeks and if he was still dealing with this we would go off it or change the medicine. He said he wanted to stay on the Prozac until it worked and I thought to myself...he thinks it's not working?

All day today he has been huffing. We had to leave the park on our bikes this afternoon because he said he was feeling anxious...which hasn't happened in a very long time. So when we got home I made sure that I did the usual propranolol and inositol amounts and not try to phase them out by cutting them in half.

I started to wonder tonight if he will ever get better. It seems like ages and ages that he has been uncomfortable in his own skin. We have good moments and when he is occupied he finds some sort of comfort. But I want him to be able to sit at the park and draw a tree, which was what we were trying to do today since we are studying Magnolia trees and parts of plants and flowers. But he said that his legs were too wiggly and he had to ride his bike around. He had always been able to sit and hang out with patience and comfort. I can't take him back to any school if he can't even sit for 5 minutes without having to move his wiggly legs.

I googled, "5 weeks Prozac" and found this: http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=23497

Basically it is full of people saying that they still feel crappy, and other people answering saying that it took them 8 weeks to feel good and it is all up and down before that. Everyone seems to say 2 months is the magic number and to stick it out...because they finally ended up feeling great. He is only on 3ML's though, which is about 13mg. I don't want to put him up to 20mg. He is only about 70 lbs so it only makes sense to me that his little body should need less than an adult who needs 20 mgs. But once again. I don't know for sure. But I am going to do what seems right for him. We have been on this new dosage for about 4 days now and on the message boards, many people say that they feel bad for a few days after upping their dosage. So maybe his wiggly leg thing will go away by 8 weeks.

I just want my little boy to be comfortable in his own skin. I want him to be able to look at the trees and the sky and find peace and not be plagued by feelings of discomfort coming from inside his little body.

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