Starting meds was the greatest thing I did!!! I struggle with hocd and so I’m on Fluvoxamine (It can treat obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and so the noises from hocd are there but they are back ground noise and that’s a step to recovery!! They are there but don’t bug me I brush them off!!!! I highly suggest if u struggle maybe talk to someone about medication. Safe recovery and everyone:)

I was considering it for a while, but does this mean you’re going to be on medication forever? Because if you stop what’s treating the ocd, won’t you have to continue taking meds?

Omg is fluvoxamine rlly effective ? And do u think it’s better than therapies

But I heard fluvoxamine can lower ur sex drive, do u feel anything like that

At first medications lower your sex drive. Sometimes it’s just cause of drowsiness. Wen you fully adapted to your medication everything gets better.

Yes but fluvoxamine is an antidepressant medicine and it makes u worse

Do u do medication @lisa1988 ?

I’m on sertraline a anti depressant. Ssri. And I don’t feel like having sex. Because at the end of the day I am so tired I can’t focus. lol. I’m not Totally adapted yet. But I have been befor. And I felt better then I ever have. I just have to wait couple more weeks and I will b better

Ok but I heard that antidepressant medicines are bad for ur mental health

And just a q does low sex drive effect ur attraction if u know what I mean

They help you. In the beginning they have side effects. Witch some people aren’t strong enough to get threw. But if you stick it out. You will feel better . I got off my meds befor and I was fine. But I had some stress lately so I relapsed. My anxiety caught me off guard. But no medication is not bad for your mental health.

Oh ok thank u now ik

@katia I don’t feel like that I still enjoy being sexually active I guess it depends on how your body reacts??

@ocdsucksbutt if I have to be on meds I’m open to it because feeling trapped with ocd is WAYY worse so feeling better is great also I’m going to therapy and talking it through and I don’t Plan on stopping till it’s GONE

Today I hardly had any thoughts I can only think of one time today. I no it’s because I medication helps me stay calm and keeps the anxiousness away it’s way easier to do erp.

I don’t recommend medication as a first line of defense, and there are studies that show lower relapse rates for patients who don’t use meds, BUT if you’ve been doing therapy and ERP for a few months and you’re not seeing any results, it can help take the edge off long enough to make therapy more effective. Try not to stay on them long term (more than a year) without some serious thought, since there are not enough long term studies on them yet and many people who take them longer find it hard if not impossible to come off. That said, for issues where therapy alone is ineffective and for short term use, I think they can help. Most side effect go away in the first month or so. Also, many people find losing their sex drive a tolerable trade off for alleviating the torture of OCD when it’s bad enough.

Yea. I don’t really care about sex. Lol so that does t bother me. But the medication part. If you have kids or a family and you need help fast. Medication is a must cause I couldn’t function wen it hit. I couldn’t stop shaking. It was terrible.