I have a question about Prozac or other SSRIs. So I definitely showed some OCD symptoms before taking Prozac (especially in regard to health obsessions), but after I took Prozac, the really terrible thoughts came in. Did anyone else experience this when taking Prozac? I’m off of them now (for over a year) but after a lot of work I STILL have residual thoughts from it.

dmfp

Date posted: 6y

Feel like this has been my life 100 percent for the last year with lexapro.. I always had health obsessions.. once I started lexapro it all got worse and my ocd came out full force to harm and relationship thoughts.. I have been weaning off the lexapro for the past couple months and have been fully off for three days l.. feel like the Lower and Lower I went the better I felt. I’m not saying medicine is bad but lexapro sure did not work for me.. I take buspar to help take the edge off the anxiety and I will stick with that and see how it goes

Shiriiiii6

Date posted: 6y

The medication makes it worse at first, u have to stick w it tho and it will eventually help u. It's like when u get a facial, ur acne gets worse before it gets better ...u will be tempted to stop going to the facials but u have to keep going because eventually ur skin will clear completely

lucius

Date posted: 6y

Erinm0496: I weanrd of Zoloft and fely best as I reduced it. I only took Lexapro for a couple of weeks because it gave me horrible headaches.

Francis

Date posted: 6y

When I finally saw a psychiatrist one year ago for my constant anxiety; he diagnosed me with generalized anxiety disorder and prescribed me Zoloft. Like the second day I was on it intrusive harm thoughts started streaming in. I stopped taking it right away but 7 months later the ocd is here to stay :( my therapist says that he has seen SSRIS bring out underlying ocd in many of his patients. Not trying to scare anyone here, it just seems like SSRIs either work like a charm or make things worse, and for me it was definitely the latter.

05Enfj_R

Date posted: 23w

Medication (Prozac)

I am having a really hard time with ocd and anxious thoughts and feeling extremely uneasy. I'm home alone today so it's really easy for me to get stuck in my thoughts. I'm on day 4 of prozac. I felt like yesterday I had a period of time of about 30 minutes where I felt really focused and like the anxiety lifted completely. But then an obsession started and it brought me right back down. Hopefully I feel relief again today. I'm going to go get some house work done to take my mind off of things. Does anyone have any first hand experiences with prozac? How long until you felt any relief? Any really bad side effects? Any unforseen pluses? Much appreciated.

Knickatknite

Date posted: 15w

OCD Relapse

So, I’ve had my OCD mostly “under control” for the past 10 years (I’m 44, battled this all my life). I’ve been on a high dosage of Luvox, but unfortunately it’s lost its effectiveness about 6 months ago. For the past five months I’ve also been doing therapy sessions on this site and have had a fairly good outcome. My main obsessions have mainly regarded around balance and symmetry. Anyhow, I’m in the process of switching to Prozac. It’s only been 6 days, so I obviously feel nothing yet. I made the foolish mistake of googling “What can antidepressants cause?” Unfortunately I found a very recent article of a study showing antidepressant users have a higher chance of getting ALS. There’s also older articles that say the opposite. But this one article FREAKED ME OUT. And I can only focus on the worst outcome. So, now I’m stuck in a repetitive thought pattern of getting ALS from the one medication that is supposed to help me. It’s absolutely terrifying and I haven’t experienced a health anxiety fear like this in years. I want to research more and more online, but I know this won’t help. It will only make things worse. Anyone with health anxiety have any advice on how to conquer this? I’m standing strong and not getting off my medication or doing any research.

Anonymous

Date posted: 14w

Who is on Prozac and likes it?

So I’ve been off sertraline 50 mg for a couple months now after being on it for 3 years. I got off cuz I was getting bad side effects from it like gaining hella weight and low libido. My anxiety has been so bad so I’m considering trying Prozac since apparently the side effects are less. What’s your experience with it/does it help your anxiety from your intrusive thoughts? I mainly have just somatic ocd

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