How to Use fluoxetine in a Sentence
fluoxetine
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Drugs cost money, but not much: generic fluoxetine, i.e. non-brand-name Prozac, currently costs less than 10 cents per day.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2010
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According to Lane's mother and son, who gave statements to Metro, Lane suffered from dry mouth — a common side effect of fluoxetine.
—Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 6 Nov. 2015
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The patients were removed from the drug, but then agreed to try another course of treatment with fluoxetine under close observation.
—Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2017
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A report from the office of the chief medical examiner confirmed that Roy died from an overdose of methadone, alcohol, hydroxyzine and fluoxetine, the affidavit says.
—Nicholas Rondinone, courant.com, 13 July 2017
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Further experiments showed that mice dosed with fluoxetine had lower gut levels of Turicibacter than other mice.
—Elizabeth Svoboda, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2021
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But Pavlicev and her colleagues wanted to confirm fluoxetine was reducing ovulation by way of the central nervous system rather than somehow affecting the ovaries directly.
—Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2019
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Studies of brain tissue samples showed that whereas ketamine silenced burst-firing within minutes, the standard antidepressant fluoxetine HCL, commonly known as Prozac, had no such effect at these timescales.
—Simon Makin, Scientific American, 2 Mar. 2018
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Medications like fluoxetine, paroxetine, and escitalopram have shown to delay ejaculation as a side-effect of the drugs, Dr. Kaufman said.
—Korin Miller, Health, 23 Mar. 2023
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Then emerged her daughter, Franny Tidwell, 32, who rummaged through 29 bottles of medication atop the refrigerator and brought down her own: oxcarbazepine for bipolar disorder, fluoxetine for depression, an opiate for pain.
—Washington Post, 2 June 2017
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The drugs cited where diazepam, nordiazepam, fluoxetine, and norfluoxetine.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2019
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There were also traces of tobacco; hydromorphone, a narcotic often marketed as Dilaudid; and fluoxetine, an antidepressant sometimes sold under the name Prozac.
—Stephanie Apstein, SI.com, 17 July 2019
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If treatment without medication is unhelpful, or specific behavioral programs are not available, or the person prefers medication, then SSRI medicines, such as fluoxetine or citalopram, are often used.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2023
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After fluoxetine was baptized Prozac and psychiatrist and author Peter Kramer counselled America to listen to it, antidepressants recast depression.
—Jason Karlawish, STAT, 6 Dec. 2019
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Examples of such medications are fluoxetine, sertraline and citalopram.
—Arash Javanbakht, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2019
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There are also four medications (sertraline, paroxetine, fluoxetine, and venlafaxine) that have a conditional recommendation to treat PTSD.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2023
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That would be an attractive possibility because fluoxetine is better tolerated and more widely prescribed than fluvoxamine.
—Esther Landhuis, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2021
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