NHS health worker feeling like a "zombie" after she was accidentally prescribed Prozac instead of hay fever tablets. Sandra D’costa, 38, suffers terribly with an allergy to tree and grass pollen, so ordered another four-month prescription of her regular antihistamine in spring.
Her GP prescribed fexofenadine - a tablet to relieve hayfever - but she said the pharmacy accidentally gave her a similar sounding drug, fluoxetine.
Sandra didn't realise, so started taking a daily dose of the antidepressant.Unsurprisingly her now-untreated hayfever left her barely able to open her eyes in the morning, and taking countless covid tests thanks to constant coughing and sneezing.And the 20mg a day dose of fluoxetine - an antidepressant - left her feeling.
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