AboutDr. Ravindra Bhaskar Ghooi Expertise I can provide information on drugs and medicines, their actions, uses, interactions and adverse effects. To avoid confusion, generic names of
medicines may please be provided. I am a pharmacologist, having worked
on animal and human pharmacology, and presently I am the Dean of Bilcare Research Academy, where we teach courses on clinical research. We dont work on saturdays and sundays, hence questions reachng me on these days will be replied on Monday, please bear with me.
Question My son took 800 mg Tegretol for bipolar for 20 yrs until
he was hospitalized last year.
One of the medications he was recently prescribed was Prozac
Upon taking this, he experienced obsessive thoughts for about 1-2 hrs/day. Prozac was switched to Luvox 2 weeks ago, but he is experiencing same obsessive thoughts. This
is a new symptom for him...can it be caused by Prozac or Luvox?? Thanking you in advancedlc8f
Answer Hi Frances,
While nobody can be totally sure of the cause, my guess would be that Prozac is responsible for the problems. I would suggest you bring this to the notice of your doctors, so that they can think about changing the treatment of your son.
Ravi Ghooi
