We are at 7.5 weeks of Prozac and Ewen says he is feeling better. But...he has added a new tic to his collection. Starting this past Friday, he started tapping things...twice. I saw him stomp twice at one point. So now he huffs and has started tapping and he still turns himself into a pretzel on the couch to try and become comfortable. I don't know if he still flexes his leg muscle as a tic. The problem is that the only tic he did before all this was the huffing and all these other tics are new. I don't know if they are being caused by the Prozac or if he would be getting them now anyway as a part of his (I hate using these words) mental illness. I read that Prozac does not help tics and I found a long article about how a doctor thought it caused facial tics in a couple of his adult patients. https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/g/glenmullen-prozac.html
Here is a study that shows that Prozac does help OCD but not tics: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=9334893
So he feels better and he doesn't mind the tics but I am very apprehensive looking at him and seeing him tap things two times. It doesn't seem comfortable or right or OK. He never did that before either. He is still huffing but at least he did that every now and then before the Prozac or any of this started. I'm going to give it a week or two, but if the tapping gets worse we need a plan be. I called his psychiatrist and left a message to call me back about it.
The thing is though, today was the first day he told me he felt OK. I asked him if he would be happy with feeling like this (I held my hands out towards him) for the next year? He said yes. So if he is comfortable maybe I shouldn't be asking his psychiatrist to perhaps change things. Maybe we need to play the waiting game for longer? If he starts getting facial tics though we have to change meds or go off them.
sigh.
By the way, Amira is doing fantastic on the Buspar.
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