Little-Blue-Elly Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 Hello, pretty new to SSRI's and these boards, & already ive found out loads of useful info. GP says im showing "symptoms!?" of BP and after unsuccessfully treating me with standard antipsychotics he prescribed me Prozac. Anyway - ive been on them a few weeks now and last night decided to have a drink (bad idea). I was absolutely fine before I started drinking enjoying a meal with bf & a mate, but then suddenly out of nowhere I had intense rage at things on the TV and started shouting at bikini clad models to get a brain and do something useful, then fell into utter despair when an ad came on for sponsering starving children in the middle of a program about ultra rich people fucking about on million dollar cruises!! I then shouted many times that I hate this world and its wrong and I dont belong in it and dont want to be here and had visions of me banging my head against the bedhead or something to get rid of the rage (i even told my bf this at the time). So, even weirder, like a flick of a switch I changed and started laughing hysterically and jumped on the poor man with an uncontrollable passion and etc etc so hard I hurt today. Im now confused, a bit scared, and tee total! Has anyone had any similar experiences with alcohol & meds? Or do I just have issues so fucking buried I dont even know what they are? Please please can I have some input, I feel like a freak and im all hyper again this morning and I think ive fucked up with my bf and I cant get that damn advert jingle out of my head from the yogurt advert! Sorry, thinking aloud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lily Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 Hello, and welcome! Everyone reacts differently to meds. I can't remember off the top of my head whether Prozac specifically recommends that you not drink, but for most meds it's a good idea not to. Having said that, just to give you my experience, I was on Prozac at the highest recommended dosage, but it didn't help. I drank while I was on it and had no bad effects whatsoever. I'm not BP, but took it for depression. All I can suggest is talk with your doc, apologize to your nice BF, and not drink until you know better what's going on. I'm no doc, so can't say if it's a med issue or, you know, one of those deeper buried issues. But do work it out and let us know how you do, ok? lily Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bianca Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 I didn't think that prozac specifically said no to drinking... but as always all drugs effect people differently. I say just don't drink. Hope you feel better soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimpmaster Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 Hi, Most ssris do not have an interaction with alcohol, but that is not to say that drinking is always a good idea on them. Prozac is known for rage out of its group. Not everyone gets it. Ive just changed from paxil and am finding prozac to be wonderful. If drinking doesnt mix well for you, then definitely avoid it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirMarshall Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 I took Paxil for a less than a year. I found that the effects of drinking were completly unpredictable. I didn't get ragey or hypo-manic. Sometimes I would have a drink with no effect, at all. Another time, one drink would have me drunk. Other times it would have little effect, but make me very disoriented. Sooo, what do you think? Probably safest for you not to drink.... a.m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kablume Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 Little Blue, Welcome to the boards! Glad you are here. Your question took me back quite a few years. I was on Prozac when it first came out in the 80's. I did not have the BP DX then. I was on it for depression or PMS. I eventually ended up on 40 mg. Boy could I fly! And did I drink on it. I could turn into the person you described. I once went after a cop after I got kicked out of a bar one night. The problem is, that with the alcohol and Prozac and nothing else, you can go from mania and crash into suicidal depressions sometimes. I have and it wasn't fun. I now take a mood stabilizer, Lithium and Topamax, that offsets the antidepressants that might make me manic. I don't know if this is what is happening to you but do let your Pdoc know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atropis42 Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 My doc told me when I went on it that at best, it kind of renders the drug useless. Alcohol messes about with the seratonin and kind of defeats the purpose of taking the prozac. He didn't mention anything beyond that, but I'll second (or third) that it's generally not a great thing to drink on meds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little-Blue-Elly Posted May 2, 2006 Author Share Posted May 2, 2006 Thanks for the replies everyone - I havnt had a drink since then for fear of what I may do & still not had a proper dx (apart from my local GP saying I sound like I display BP traits - vague or what!) Have got appt to see pdoc tomorrow afternoon though so look forward to some proper clarity in what it is im dealing with! Do miss having a shandy though, was a 4 times a week girl. Hope everyones feeling cool today - Im feeling pretty good apart from being a little uncomfortably uppy and restless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbird Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 Hi Little-Blue-Elly I'll second what Atropis said - alcohol stops the SSRI from working effectively. When I was drinking on top of prozac, I was subject to severe suicidal depressions and ended up in the ER 4 times in one month due to cutting and overdoses. Now that I am away from alcohol, the anti-depressant is working really well. Have you ever had that effect of extreme rage and despair from drinking before or did it just come on you from you went on Prozac? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little-Blue-Elly Posted May 3, 2006 Author Share Posted May 3, 2006 Hi, yes I have always suffered from bouts of extreme despair with & without alcohol since the age of about 15 now I think about it, but these would result in hours and hours of crying and wouldnt turn manic! Ive got a lot to talk to the pdoc about today, the more I think about how ive been for the last 13 or so years, the things that have happened, and the states ive been in lurching from one bad situation to another in a near constant state of misery, and the more I read about others experiences on these boards, the more I think ive been suffering needlessly not knowing whats wrong with me. Only 4 hours to go, better make a list of things I think might be important to say. Hope you are all doing good today, im feeling a bit 'blunt' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbird Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 Good luck with the p-doc Little-Blue-Elly, let us know how you get on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betcsu Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 hey boy blue, im just wondering how your appointment went and what dx you ended up with. please post an update! i see my pdoc tomorrow and im nervous like you were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little-Blue-Elly Posted May 11, 2006 Author Share Posted May 11, 2006 Hi, im sorry ive not been posting as ive been a bit confused and a load of god awful crap has happened. The guy I saw last week turned out not to be a pdoc as such but a psychologist / therapist instead. He asked me loads of questions, I had to fill in a load of 'quiz' type things, including one where I had to colour in people on a tree !?! Anyway - obviously I didnt keep anything back from the guy as I wanted an honest dx, which included me telling him how ive been drinking fairly heavily for years and have in the past had plenty of other unhelpful substances. The short answer is he wont recommend me to see a pdoc untill I have been completely sober for a good few months as he thinks its outside influences causing the big fuck up in my head, and has booked me in for some more psychotherapy in the mean time. On top of that I got drinking again last Friday and tried to jump off a bridge (some poor guy had to pull me back over then called the police) Im just sorry I didnt take the advice I was given by everyone on here not knocked back the shots. Needless to say ive now started my own Sobriety Club, but I cant seem to recruit anyone I know to join me! p.s. Can I just please warn anyone who is new to Prozac not to be a twat like me because i could very easily be dead now - seriously Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kablume Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 Little Blue, Don't beat yourself up. Just be glad you are here still amongst the crazy. I have had many suicidal attempts while drinking. What this psychologist is doing is seeing if it is the alcohol that is the cause of said problems before he sees if there are any underlying psych problemos. Been through it myself. But, what I want to say about the alcohol is do not go it alone. I hope you will be seeking therapy in the meantime but do get support outside of your therapy as life is tough enough than to try something like this by yourself. There are many avenues that you can choose. I don't want to influence you but let our members throw in their 2 cents worth so you will have many voices. I am so glad your attempt did not work. Please keep coming back and letting us know how you are. We will always be here for you. Sondra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little-Blue-Elly Posted May 11, 2006 Author Share Posted May 11, 2006 Thanks, I seem to be okay at the moment but I dont know if its normal 'ok' or hypo again. Ive had endless amounts of energy yesterday and today and ive done loads of studying and im constantly making plans in my head of doing things like going on the road just stopping off at places that look cool. This doesnt feel right and im dreading that fucking crashing feeling again like I had around this time last week. Ive also just bought a load of totally random tapes off ebay and I very very nearly bought a tango clown horn for my car coz I though it would be hilarious driving round hooting it at people. 5 days without booze though and over a week without a spliffaroo - damn that would really relax me right now!! Hope your cool Elly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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