How to Use fluoxetine in a Sentence

fluoxetine

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Others, like fluoxetine, which is used to treat depression, have decreased.
  — Evan Frank, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2024
• For instance, the doctor observed that at least one primate was being treated with fluoxetine—generic Prozac—for depression.
  — Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2023
• 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
• Further experiments showed that mice dosed with fluoxetine had lower gut levels of Turicibacter than other mice.
  — Elizabeth Svoboda, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The drugs cited where diazepam, nordiazepam, fluoxetine, and norfluoxetine.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Benedict’s cause of death, revealed in an autopsy report, was ruled as toxicity from diphenhydramine, an antihistamine, and fluoxetine, an anti-depression medication.
  — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2024
• Examples of such medications are fluoxetine, sertraline and citalopram.
  — Arash Javanbakht, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2019
• 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
• That would be an attractive possibility because fluoxetine is better tolerated and more widely prescribed than fluvoxamine.
  — Esther Landhuis, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2021
• Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors fluoxetine and sertraline had the lowest occurrence.
  — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 5 June 2024

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024