Blue Fluoxetine Causes Heartburn
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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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The only way I have been able to get these pills down is to take them out of the blue capsule. It's very unpleasant taste but at least your stomach doesn't feel like the fiery pits of a volcano.

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Yes. Horrible esophagus burn and heart burn. So excruciating. I dread every day taking this prozac.

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I continue to get acid reflux/heartburn from my generic prozac and it’s to the point where I am going to stop taking them out of fear. The pain is so so bad!! I might switch to a whole different medication now.

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I thought I had found a way to do mail order to get the Sandoz manufactured Fluoxetine delivered to my house, but it still hasn't come. It's been two weeks and I'm desperate to get back on this medication, does anyone have any advice on where to go? Walgreens is not helping at all, I have tried so many times to get them to get a different manufacturer. Where do you go? Which manufacturer do you take? HELP

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When I first started taking Prozac it was white with a green strip I believe and was completely fine, After about 6 months they switched to this dreaded "Blue" pill and omg the heartburn is excruciatingly painful I can't breathe let alone think properly because of the pain...I stopped taking them for awhile because of the pain I changed my diet, became more active then started taking them again today and nothing I'm at Wal-Mart right now in severe pain...This is not okay!!

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Re: Berry (# 228)

So thankful to read this. My mail order pharmacy sent me the blue ones from Alembic and I get severe heartburn. I'm going back to Kroger, which uses Aurobindo. Thank you again.

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I've been taking the blue capsules 40 mg generic alembic fluoxetine for about a month and have been throwing up after taking them and feel like I'm having a heart attack. When I took the white pill with orange and green stripes I never had this problem at all and I took them for 4 years . I hope this helps someone else it took me a while to figure it out.

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I am so glad to see that it’s the generic Alembic made Prozac that’s causing such severe heartburn like symptoms. I couldn’t figure it out. Never had a problem with Prozac- typically the white with small green stripe- I know for sure it’s that blue pill. I know not everyone responds the same way but these seem like poison

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what does it mean by the blue prozac? I take these white pill ones that come in 20mg that you can cut in half and for some reason tonight i have the WORST stomach burn and it won't go away. I have no idea if it's because of the pill itself, or since i recently increased my dose. I don't know what to do!

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Yes got a 90 day supply of blue Prozac and they give me heartburn. This is new prior to the blue pills I had no heartburn with Prozac. Going to call pharmacy and see if they can switch out my Prozac.

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Eric--

You keep claiming it's the gelatin in the capsule. How do you know this? And why would it only be a problem with SOME capsules and not others? I used to take this medicine regularly with absolutely no problems.

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Re: Tammy Jo (# 222)

What manufacturer do you use now? Walgreens keeps giving me ones that are making me sick and I don't know what to do or where to go

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Re: Em (# 217)

Everything is fine again! No volcanic heartburn--back to normal.

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Re: Writerly One (# 215)

Yes, it was Walgreens that gave me the bad fluoxetine. That was the last straw for me with them - I moved all of my prescriptions to Walmart.

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Re: KK (# 220)

Check on the bottle to see who the manufacturer is. I think that's important for bird-dogging our problems.

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Re: T (# 16)

I’ve taken the blue for years and my pharma gave me the orange and green- made me feel like I was having a heart attack! First time I have run across anyone mentioning orange and green but those ones are horrible for heart burn. Day 2 of feeling it

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Re: Em (# 217)

Back to normal! No problems. I've still got these old Alembic caps I was told I could take to a neighboring Walgreens to be destroyed. I haven't done it; I'd be happy to submit them to an interested lab for analysis. If you can get Sandoz (or Teva, if you've got a good history with them) I'd say go for it.

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Re: Eric (# 189)

Yes! I’ve been switched from fluoxetine tablets to capsule(the blue ones). It took me about 8 months to realize my HORRIBLE heartburn was being caused by the new fluoxetine capsule. I had been taking the fluoxetine tablets for 4 years without a problem. I’ll try opening the capsule to take with food or water, my insurance no longer covers the tablets. Not sure why. Thank you to all who wrote about this problem. Very helpful!!

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Re: Writerly One (# 215)

How is it going with the Sandoz/Teva manufactured capsules?

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Has anyone had luck with emptying the capsules in yogurt or pudding?? I'm spending so much money on antacids and changing my reflux med around! I was fine on 2 white capsules of the fluoxetine and now my lips and tongue are burning so bad from my reflux!!

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