Anonymous
- Date posted
- 1y
Medication
How do I know if the medication I’m taking is right or wrong for me? Currently taking 60mg of Prozac but idk if it’s doing anything
Joe87Joe87
- Date posted
- 1y
Can I ask how long you have been taking it and how long should it take to have an effect. Without meaning to sound patronising I would of thought that you would know if the meds are helping because the urge to do rituals and complusions would lessen. I took 100mg of sertraline for about 3 months which is supposed to be the best one for OCD here in the UK and I felt no benefit
Trish!Trish!
- Date posted
- 1y
My Dr said you can take up to 300 mg of zolft ... to treat ocd
Joe87Joe87
- Date posted
- 1y
@Trish! Yes I think 200mg is the maximum they will prescribe in the UK but I think my problem with meds is that I'm afraid something bad will happen to me through taking them or that I will become hooked. It took me over a year to work up the courage to take Zoloft
Trish!Trish!
- Date posted
- 1y
@Joe87 I totally get it... I'm terrified of that amount... 😫
Joe87Joe87
- Date posted
- 1y
Thanks you're 100 percent right. It's been a pleasure talking with you. This app is the best thing I have found since having OCD. I spent the first 3 years of it never speaking to anyone else who has OCD or has recovered from it and I can't tell you how isolating and lonely that was despite having a councellor and friends I would talk to about it
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 1y
My wife asked if I think it’s the right one for me. She sees me putting in the work with ERP. But she still sees me extremely anxious.
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 1y
I been taking it since April. It’s suppose to take 2 weeks but it may take up till 8. Initially I was taking 30mg and i had a follow up in June and my doctor told me to up to 60mg. I’ve decirle had side effects since I increased.
Trish!Trish!
- Date posted
- 1y
I took fluvoxamine for a year and suffered terribly... then switched to zoloft and noticed some things were easier... now I take zoloft and wellbutrin together.... it's alot better then fluvoxamine... but nothing seems 😕 great
Joe87Joe87
- Date posted
- 1y
I'm not sure what wellbutrin is? Does that or fluvoxamine have a sedative in it? I sometimes feel that maybe I should try an anti depressant or something that contains a slow release sedative? Does anyone know if there is such a thing?
Joe87Joe87
- Date posted
- 1y
I ask about a slow release sedative as the most in control and least bothered I have felt by my mind in the past 4 years is when I had covid because I was so tired. It might sound ridiculous because who wants to walk around feeling tired all day but if it offered me enough relief so i could get myself back to work I could then gradually try to come off it
Trish!Trish!
- Date posted
- 1y
@Joe87 Zoloft is sertraline its an SSRI... wellbutrin helps with energy and focus... it's also called Budeprion its an NDRI... the 2 together help nicely
Trish!Trish!
- Date posted
- 1y
So both are antidepressants
Trish!Trish!
- Date posted
- 1y
Wellbutrin alone won't help ocd... but the zoloft will help the ocd... the Wellbutrin helps with the energy...
Joe87Joe87
- Date posted
- 1y
Are you at the stage where you can go all day without doing any complusions or rituals? Also do you have any thoughts to the sedative suggestion?
Joe87Joe87
- Date posted
- 1y
It feels like we are playing lucky dip with medication which is awful isn't it but I think this is just hownit is because doctors are just as clueless about what might and might not work and of course everyones case is different
Trish!Trish!
- Date posted
- 1y
@Joe87 I'm no where I would call back to normal... because I was so bad I couldn't function at all... so ... it's a fight everyday... but I do want to live now and can do alot more then before... I would say an improvement... others in my life say its helping... I Have taken the sedatives ... they are more for emergencies because they can be addictive of course... but I did and do take them at really hard times
Joe87Joe87
- Date posted
- 1y
@Trish! That's good to hear Trish. I am at the point where I can barely function at all and have been for almost 4 years although I feel like I am starting to understand it better and beginning to make a bit of progress. Can I ask how long you were unable to function for and does that whole period feel like a blur to you? Almost like a blackout?
Trish!Trish!
- Date posted
- 1y
I didn't realize I had it until I was hospitalized... it's been a Little over 3 years now... I do thearpy on here but thearpy out of the app also and have a dr for only medication... I've did everything I can.... it's a slow process and learning a new life I guess
Joe87Joe87
- Date posted
- 1y
Yes I totally get that. Your answer just proves to me that everybody's OCD story is different and I was naive to think anything different because I almost recognised straight away when my intrusive thoughts became so bothersome that I began doing physical compulsions to neutralise them. Unfortunately though I couldn't stop them and it soon spiralled into what I have now which is not being able to do anything without repeating it
Trish!Trish!
- Date posted
- 1y
@Joe87 Yes everyone is similar so much the same ... yet so different... at the root its ocd and its terrible...
Joe87Joe87
- Date posted
- 1y
@Trish! I think the big problem that I need to overcomw now is that one of my themes is perfection and therefore I have told myself that I won't go back to work and back to my hobbies until I am completely better and free from ocd. I am beginning to realise that this isn't going to happen and that as much as I dont like it I nees to go back to work whilt I'm still like this as it will form part of my recovery
Trish!Trish!
- Date posted
- 1y
@Joe87 Yes!! I thought the same ... I thought I would magically get better or back to normal... no such thing... because we are who we are now... we have to do our best each day ... try to embrace it and do the best we can
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