Hello!
I have been taking fluoxetine for over a year – started off with 20mg each morning and am now on 50mg each morning (for my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder).
I have always had trouble falling to sleep even before I started fluoxetine. It can take me hours and I normally wake up throughout the night a lot. Each morning I wake up tired and feel tired for most of the day.
I am wondering whether increasing my fluoxetine (whether that be in the morning or taking some at night) would help me sleep?
Or if buying a herbal sleeping pill would help me more?
I am concerned with herbal pills that they may contain something that will give me serotonin syndrome (which I’ve gotten before by taking ginseng which was in the berocca I was taking) or another bad side effect. It was a terrible experience and I don’t want it to happen again.
However I do understand that fluoxetine and herbal remedies whether together or apart are both trial and error. I just want to know the safest options for me to try first.
Thanks very much for your time!