[Shakes]

Hello. It's Shakes here. I am a 16 year old male with depression. Depression sucks! I was diagnosed with this illness just under a year ago. I've been off and on 20/10mg daily throughout the year. Im fairly pleased with the results of Prozac, and I am grateful for it.

However I am concerned when it comes to the combination of Prozac and alcohol. This combination is very dangerous and I have personal experience with that deadly duo. I recall a situation when me and my friends we're having a nice time drinking, just shootin' the breeze, smokin some herb, same old same old. That night I ended up drinking a little under two 40's of Malt Beer (Old English). Now, had I not been on Prozac, that amount of alcohol would of got me very drunk, maybe even passed out. But I would of been o.k, and i'd of managed. I've been drunk before, I can handle two 40's. But because fluoxetine was in my system, I got hammered like I've never thought possible. I was never that drunk before, and it felt like a different kind of alcohol-buzz, very bizzare, hard to explain. I was so messed up. I pissed all over my dad, slapped three security guards in the mall, called my sister a whore, and slashed my wrist 5 or 6 times with scissors! (Prozac is supposed to help prevent radical, raging outbursts of fury, not provoke them!) I would never do that when I was normally just drunk. And I don't remember any of this, my parents told me all about it in the morning. Now I don't drink anymore, in fear that I might kill myself, or someone.

My question is: What is it that makes alcohol react so badly to Prozac? Whats the technical reason? What physically happens in the brain that made me go insane? Does it have something to do with serotonin? Is it only SSRI anti-depressants that react this way to alcohol, or are there other medications that have similar reactions? Thank you for your time.

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[sleeptime]

I'm not a doctor so I don't know the exact chemical reaction in your brain, but I do know that Prozac is an anti-depresant and alcohol is a depresant. Mixing the two only confuses your body and make you act the way you have. One of my closest friends used to do the same when we were in hight school. She'd drink all night long, do stupid ****, and forget about it the next day. The girl is lucky she's still alive. Maybe you should take a look at the real reason you're taking these drugs and find out, if you use them right, how beneficial they would be for you. Or, maybe it's time to re-evaluate yourself and change up your lifestlye habits. That's what I did. I took anti-depresants for a while but felt that they "numbed" me, so I quit. I decided that my problem was something that I was going to fix for myself. It's been a long road for me but I know it's possible. Drugs only mask problems, not fix them. The sooner you realize that the sooner you'll be able to fix your situation and deal with you life.
Hope this helps and good luck.

Tara R James

[kmaria1]

I dont really have an answer to your question but I am going through something similar. Im 19 years old and I just entered college. I was just prescribed prozac, which i thought would be great so I could feel better, but then I found about the saddest part. Since im in college I have a lot of trouble not drinking. I have been in a similar place you were. I actually left a party by myself, wasted in high heels, and walked in the dark by myself and sat in a pizza parlor which I apparently slapped a worker for hitting on me and then slept with him to apologize.......Yes something I truly would never have done. So I, like you, have stopped drinking because what freaked me out the most is I remember that night, as wasted as I was, and I could not have cared less if I was hit by a car. I felt really suicidal with an amount of liquor that normally would have made me have fun. Prozac is a savior but also a jerk to ya know?

[Chubanski]

I've also had bad experinces while taking Prozac and drinking. I drank and exsesive amount of alcohol, which is very strange because i am very skinny and I didnt feel drunk or anything. My friends told me i was doing strange things and trying to start fights that. The next morning, i didnt remember a single thing that happend that night. I fell asleep at school and woke up very confused and nervous about where i was and what had happened. I had no clue how I got here and what I was doing. It was scary, im not drinking agian while on Prozac

[Sweet1plum2000]

I saw this happen with a family member. He looked as if he were on a different planet and he was extremely aggressive. Since he wasn't going to stop drinking, the doctor took him off the Prozac. I don't know why it happens, but it is the truth with some people. I didn't even recognize him when he was acting like that - very scary.

[James Moderate]

I'm 23. I've been drinking regularly for about a month until recently, and I've been on Prozac since a little over a month. I thought I could mix alcohol with prozac pretty easily because I'd been doing it for about a month, but all of a sudden I had one more beer and it felt like I was dying. I told my doctor about it and he said that I could accidentally commit suicide if I mixed the two. He didn't mention that I had some sort of tolerance to my metabolism until I started getting suicidal. In fact I realized how throughout the month of drinking I had done some unusual things, which seemed after the fact kind of suicidal, and I'd been thinking of death more often than usual. I just didn't notice it because my brain was chemically fried. I finally quit drinking since Tuesday when my doctor told me it could cause suicide. Now I take it seriously that my life is at stake if I mix. It may have taken a while for me to get used to the prozac, and that's why my metabolism seemed to be able to handle it for quite a while. I supose it will take about another month for me to recover my liver damage from the mixing, if that's how it works. I still feel light headed and odd. I decided that I'm better off without alcohol, even if I seem like the only one that's not drinking. I have to be willing to stand out and say no to social drinking if I intend to live and enjoy the intended effects of prozac.