I started prozac (20mg) 2 weeks ago. 1 week in, i suffered a major panic/anxiety attack. and a few smaller ones afterwords. i went into a 3 day tail spin of intense anxiety, racing thoughts, and obsessive thinking about the anxiety and fear of it coming back. i could literally not think of anything else. on top of that hell, i couldn't sleep through the night. 50mg of diphenhydramine would knock me out. but i would wake up 1-3 hours later. the first 2 nights this happened, i was able to fall back asleep. but the following nights, i wasn't able to fall back asleep. I started taking 100-200 mg of the diphenhydramine with no success.
Yesterday, i decided not to take the prozac, because it's pretty clearly the problem. about 6 hours after my missed dose, i was able to start thinking of other things, and felt immensely better. but then last night i woke up after an hour at the most. I was hit with waves of heat in my back (not heat in the room. panic attack heat). and anxiety and racing thoughts. handfuls of the sleeping pills have done nothing. i noticed that the diphenhydramine would relieve my anxiety at night as well before i would fall asleep. but last night, it did not.
since i was only on prozac for 2 weeks, i'm wondering, how long until i go back to normal again?
specifically, when should I expect the side effects of anxiety and insomnia/frequent waking to subside?