Many patients who stop taking Prozac on their own do so because they find the side effects of slight nausea and insomnia unbearable or are too impatient to wait for early side effects to recede. Patients who are prone to hysterical reactions or those who are phobic about taking pills are often doomed to discontinue Prozac or any other medication from the outset.

The main complaints that cause patients to discontinue treatment are, in order of frequency, nausea, nervousness, insomnia, anxiety, tremor, headache, drowsiness, diarrhea, dizziness, sweating, and dry mouth.

The numbers and percentages for each of these categories are small. Nausea, the most common adverse reaction associated with stopping treatment, caused between 3% and 4% of the people tested to stop taking the drug. Nervousness and insomnia influenced another 2% to 3% to discontinue treatment. Not one of the other side effects involved in ending treatment affected more than 2% of those tested.

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