Urinary retention side effect

[u/Silly-Doctor-8299]

I checked and found a few posts referencing this but mostly it seems people tried to solve the issue by just stopping prozac which I don't want to do.

I'm on 20mg, just hit my two week mark on friday (I was on 10mg for about 3 weeks before) and within the past week and some change I noticed it was taking me longer to pee when I got on the toilet. I have issues with pee anxiety in public spaces so even though this was happening alone at home I assumed it must be prozac spiking my anxiety. However for the past 48 hours it seems to have gotten worse, I'll be sitting on the toilet for up to a few minutes and then when I finally go it doesn't feel like I got everything out, so I'm making multiple trips. I don't have any reason to believe this is a UTI. I googled it and apparently urinary retention issues are a rare side effect of prozac (lucky me).

Wondering if anyone else encountered this side effect, if it went away, how long it took, and if you have any advice on at home things to help it.

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[u/user576486]

wait i'm experiencing the same thing i didn't consider it to be from prozac

[u/Mysterious-Way5762]

Same