Prozac causing jaw/mouth tension? - Anxiety Message Board

kertson · 12-24-2005, 11:28 PM

I took Prozac and buspar seperately then togehter back in July. The prozac always caused teeth grinding, but the buspar caused this weird face twitching so I decided to just take the prozac. I stopped taking both in Oct. In December, I went back to the doc and he put me back on both of these. The buspar was causing twitches again, so I got off it and went back on just prozac. My face doesn't twitch now, but I still am very conscious of my face and mouth, and feel that it is very tense. Maybe this is just anxiety I'm having, because when I previously took prozac by itself, I never had this. By the way this particularly bothers me when speaking in front of others. Anyone else have this?

tessa04 · 12-25-2005, 12:32 AM

Teeth grinding and jaw clenching are side effects of ssri's. It's not anxiety or "all in your head." This happens to a lot of people.

Tessa

kertson · 12-25-2005, 10:49 PM

I don't know what to do, I've got a date coming up this week and I'm so damn worried about my face and mouth that its holding me back from talking to people, I don't want it to effect my date. I'm wondering if benzos would help with this temporarily until my next doc appt?