I just got put on Prozac a week ago and each day feels like a new side effect. Everything from headaches and tummy troubles to itching (??) And *worse* depression/anxiety…and now one I haven’t seen talked about: wanting to drink. 

I’m an alcoholic. The way I dealt with anxiety in the past was drinking. But rn I feel like having a drink and the emotions that were usually there that kept me from doing it just aren’t?? I’ve got over a year and 3 months under my belt but I just had 3 glasses of seltzer with bitters (my go to ‘NA’ drink) and I seem to not be able to stop? The common wisdom is bitters will get you sick before they get you drunk and I think im about to find that out the hard way

Anyone else notice this? If you had worse anxiety as a side effect early on did you find Prozac didn’t work for you in the long run either?