Blue Fluoxetine Causes Heartburn (Page 2)

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Recently my pharmacy began giving me a new version of fluoxetine, which I have taken for MANY years with no problems.... however the blue fluoxetine gives me horrible heart burn. I use to take them at night before bed, but couldn't sleep, so decided to start taking them in the morning and still get the heartburn. I don't take them with any other meds. I tried an empty stomach, and after eating, but the results are still the same. I also get a bad headache (I think from the heartburn.) Has anyone figured out how to avoid this problem?

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Sorry you are having the heartburn problem....when I take the the green and white pills, I just have normal heartburn. (The flavored chews are WONDERFUL for getting rid of heartburn.) But when I took the blue ones, the heartburn started almost immediately. The flavored antacid chews can be found at Walgreens or CVS drug stores.

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I think its more to do with the time u take yr tablets as I use the green and yellow ones and never an issue but took mine late 2nite when normally take in morning. Crazy burning feeling which I now know links to tablet but I never get this normally during the day. Eating bread had immediately helped reduce burn feeling so I am wondering if I did get tablet stuck in throat !!

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I wanted to post a follow-up. After speaking with the pharmacist, he was able to substitute the capsules with tablets. I have not had a problem since. I don't know if your doctor has to approve or write the script a certain way in order to get them in lieu of the capsules, but I feel SO much better since the change! good luck to all

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Please call the manufactuer on your rx bottle for I am getting horrible heart burn from the blue Prozac they will ask you some questions then they send it to their safety person for review they also send you something in the mail. But this needs to be addressed so the FDA knows that this is happening. I did it just today.

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I'm in the same boat. I never had an issue with this medication until recently when the color of my pills changed. I was told that it was still the same medication but the heartburn it has caused is horrible and I've had to stop taking the medication that I finally had gotten built up in my system.

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I take the white/green stripe prozac and have horrible heartburn.

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I amm taking those samme fluoroxetine capsules. I don't get heartburn every night but I get it sporadic and its horrible. Feels like my heart is on fire

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I am lying in bed suffering from major heartburn. I took a blue fluoxetine pill half an hour ago. I too have taken them for years without having this problem. It is a relief to know I am not alone. I will be calling my pharmacist and/or doctor tomorrow!!!!!

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me too, Kim. blue fluoxetine, 20mg. sporadic heartburn - once a month maybe - but terrible when it happens. will look into the tablets like someone suggested.

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I have been on 40 mgs of fluoxetine since jan 2013. They are green and orange. I've tried everything to stop the sparatic heart burn for monthes. Nothing seems to help wether I take it in the morning or night, with or without food. Most of the anti acids don't hardly touch the heart burn For me. The meds work great! I'm going to report this to FDA this is ridiculous!

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I have been taking this med for nearly 20 years. Only recently (2 years) did I begin to experience the reflux pain. I am also on the two tone blue capsule and it seems to cause strong reflux symptoms. My suggestion to soften the pain is to take it in the morning with a good breakfast and then if possible do something active for an hour or so. Sitting is the worse thing to do until the drug works through the upper GI system.
Jerry

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Oh the fricking pain. Add another to the bad blue pills. Im in agaony right now. I wasnt sure witch one or even if any of my meds were causing this awful painful heartburn. Im releaved to now know without a doubt its the crappy blue prozac from WalMart. Ima go back to Walgreens.

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I started some Green/White Fluoxetine capsules last week, with the imprint E 91. Tonight is the second time since then that I've had really bad heartburn and acid reflux, following two nights ago now... Usually when I get heartburn taking some Tums helps, but not these past few times. Thank you for creating this topic; now I'd bet that it's the medication.

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I still remembered that night when my heart was burning like hell but as soon as I took the Fluoxetine capsules I got the quick relief, its really great I think the people feeling problems with heart burn must take Fluoxetine capsules.

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I have had severe heartburn often with the white and green Fluoxetine capsules (20MG). I thought I would die each time, and thought I was allergic to bananas since I took it after breakfast. Now I take it during evening meal and most of the time all is well. The tablets a friend uses don't seem to cause the heartburn, but cost much more. I guess you get what you pay for.

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I take 40mg of Fluoxetine daily. It's a green and orange capsule with the imprint "RX632." I get this from the Target pharmacy. I very infrequently get heartburn from this medicine - maybe ever few months. But when I do it's the worst heartburn I've ever had. I get a phlegmy regurgitation in my throat and mouth which I assume is acid and bile? It only happens if I don't eat first or eat very little first, but even then sometimes it doesn't happen. Very strangely sporadic. Once it finally goes away I usually still have some stinging in my esophagus when I eat food for a day or two. It happens so infrequently that I never think to keep any antacid medication on hand, especially since I don't get heartburn from anything else. I do, however, take a daily calcium supplement which has the same calcium ingredient in Tums. So when this happened to me this morning, I took my calcium. It's taken about an hour and a half to work, but I'm finally starting to get some relief. Like a previous poster said, the lightheadedness seems to follow me around the rest of the day.

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I started off taking the Prozac 20 mg and almost immediately I got the worst heartburn in my life. It hurt so bad i laid in my bed and cried my eyes out. I have a very high pain tolerance but this heartburn is on a whole new level. I started taking it about three months ago. I found that taking a Zantac 150 about 30 minutes before and after the pill helped to cease the pain or down size it a little. Currently i am on the 40 mg blue and white pill and I'm still getting this hellacious heartburn. Sometimes the Zantac will completely knock out the pain, other times it does nothing. I take it every night before bed. It's 5:21 am an I'm awake because of the pain. Saturday night my chest started hurting SO bad from the pain. I felt like I was having a heart attack. I'm getting to the point where I'm not even gonna take this anymore if I cannot find some type of relief. I hope my reply was helpful!

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If this stuff is so toxic that it causes severe pain, I think it should be banned. It's not worth taking if it's causing painful side effects

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you're right, Tim. The pain is terrible. Something needs to be changed. And FAST!!

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I take 80 mg of prozac and have tried 2 different makers, both blue pills. I feel like my esophagus is being burnt. As soon as I take the pills it starts. Its becoming unbearable. Im starting to think it is burning a hole in my throat. How am I going to be able to get off this medicine!?

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