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Reviewer: Cappi, 35-44 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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It is happening quickly, and I have still only been on the generic Luvox for about a week now. I did not do a thing all day today except for stay in bed. If that is what the medication is going to do for me, make me not care about anything, then I am going to quit taking it. It is a good thing I only took 1/2 a pill daily instead of what the psychiatrist wanted me to take. I would hate to see
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Reviewer: Cappi, 35-44 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I have still only been on the generic Luvox for a short time but I have noticed that the more I take it the more I have a hard time staying awake and I have almost no desire to do any of my housework. I have even almost totally lost my interest in vacuuming and that was something I would do up to 6 times a day and would have probably done it more often even than that if I could have. My hygiene
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Reviewer: Cappi, 35-44 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I have only been on Fluvoxamine Maleate 25 MG for a few days now. That is the generic for Luvox. A while after the first 2 doses, I was kind of tired and more irritable and moody than usual. The tiredness is going away already and my moods are evening back out already. I have already noticed just in a short time that the compulsions to keep cleaning all day and all night are not as bad and th
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Reviewer: Rinny82, 25-34 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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This drug should be illegal!!! The side effects were intense and not worth it. I thought I had to go to the ER. I was getting tremors in my hands then started losing control of my hands and the right side of my face. I got terrible bruising all over my legs. Nausea, didn't want to eat anything. Oh, yeah and no sleep on this med. I felt like I wasn't in control of my body or emotions. Was v
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Reviewer: xbrando7, 13-18 Male on Treatment for 6 months to less than 1 year (Patient)
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This medication works fairly well, but the choice to use it or not is a bit of a toss-up when you consider the side effects. It helps with anxiety and OCD, reducing the impact to about half what it was before, but the effectiveness fluctuates. My doctor says that I should take a higher dose (I take 100mg) to get a better effect, but any dose higher than what I take now is too hard for me to handle
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