Inspire HR & Prozac

[Telkwa]

Back in June 2019 my doc prescribed Prozac.

After a few days on Prozac I started sleeping about 12 hours/day, and it was really hard to drag myself out of bed.

At the same time my fitbit HR sleep scores crashed.  Before taking the Prozac, my sleep score was right around 70 to 85, and sleep duration 6 to 9 hours.  Suddenly I was getting no sleep analysis at all, or very poor results.

I've been off Prozac for 5 days now.  Trying out Cymbalta.  Two nights ago the HR gave me a really good sleep score.  Decent results last night.

Has anyone had a similar experience of anti-depressants destroying their sleep analysis?

[AndreaFitbit]

Thanks for getting back to us @Telkwa. I moved your post to the Sleep well forum. 

I think you'll receive more feedback about your inquiry here. Let's see what other users have to say and the information that you have provided is very interesting. 

Let me know if you have questions and keep on visiting the forums. 

[Telkwa]

Thank you Andrea -

First off, a correction to the first post.  Prescribed Prozac in June 2020, not 2019.

My sleep scores appeared to be improving as I transitioned to Cymbalta, but this was illusory.  A week later, as the Cymbalta took hold, sleep scores cratered again.  I stopped taking the Cymbalta cold turkey on December 30, 2020.  It took a few weeks to say for sure, but sleep scores have improved since.  Now, as of Feb. 15th 2021, I got decent to good sleep scores for the last 11 nights.  Haven't seen that many in a row since before taking the Prozac almost a year ago.

AFAIC there was a definite link between use of Prozac/Cymbalta and lousy to non-existent fitbit sleep scores.  What I can't say for sure is whether my sleep actually sucked when taking the meds, or if the meds interfered somehow with the fitbit's ability to analyze.

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