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Hi, @suzy31 - sorry to hear about this mix-up with your insurance and the fluoxetine (Prozac). Has it now arrived, or are you awaiting it in the mail?

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It arrived and I'm glad it did. I started the Prozac and dropped the Viibryrd and so glad I dropped that drug it was making me more anxious and very short tempered. Now that I'm off of it I feel a lot calmer. I was reading that women my age who take Viibryd it makes you more anxious and I don't need that it was also giving me headaches when I took the full 20 milligram dose so I cut the pill in half to 10 and then the headaches went away but still feeling anxious. I can see why you have to be on Prozac to get off the Effexor because the Prozac has a greater calming effect. Not a tired calming effect just a relaxed one. I hope you know what I mean. The Viibyrd was making me so short tempered I didn't recognize myself.