Anonymous243
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- 50w ago
Medication for OCD
What medications are you all on or have been on? Experiences? Side effects? What has worked and what hasn’t?
Torture survivorTorture surv...
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- 50w ago
Fluvoxamine and Hydroxyzine. Interesting thing I heard: Fluvoxamine studies with covid have shown it helps to lessen the illness. I had a high fever with the omicron variant. But not much other than a sinus congested that lasted a week or so. Maybe being on Fluvoxamine helped?
Torture survivorTorture surv...
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- 50w ago
I doubt having the 2 doses of the Pfizer vaccine before getting covid did anything.
Anonymous243Anonymous243
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- 50w ago
@Torture survivor Interesting! Thanks for the advice. Did you find that fluvoxamine worked well?
Torture survivorTorture surv...
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- 50w ago
@Anonymous243 Fluvoxamine seems to work for me
Anonymous243Anonymous243
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- 50w ago
@Torture survivor Im glad! Maybe it could work for me too.
edelweiss edelweiss
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- 50w ago
@Torture survivor Omg I’m just starting this medication and idk why I find this kind of hilarious
Torture survivorTorture surv...
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- 50w ago
@edelweiss Hilarious in what way?
edelweiss edelweiss
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- 49w ago
@Torture survivor I just didn’t expect one of the side effects of my meds to be less covid symptoms 😭
Torture survivorTorture surv...
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- 49w ago
@edelweiss I heard about it through doctor interviews on social media. You won't hear about it on corporate news. They were wrong about ivermectin and the FDA was sued and lost for pushing disinformation about it.
Torture survivorTorture surv...
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- 49w ago
@edelweiss You probably haven't heard about that. Read this article.... https://www.biopharma-reporter.com/Article/2024/04/02/FDA-settles-ivermectin-lawsuit-removes-contentious-COVID-19-posts#:~:text=%E2%80%9CFDA%20loses%20its%20war%20on,plaintiffs%2C%20said%20in%20a%20statement.
edelweiss edelweiss
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- 49w ago
@Torture survivor Interesting! Yeah I didn’t know about this.
AnonymouslyhereAnonymouslyhere
- Date posted
- 50w ago
Currently on Zoloft and loving it. Little bit of nausea at first with it, but i take it with food and that has helped. I was on Effexor before and it zapped my personality
edelweiss edelweiss
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- 50w ago
@Anonymouslyhere I did not like the side effects of Effexor!
edelweiss edelweiss
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- 50w ago
Tried Lexapro, Zoloft, and Effexor. Didn’t really notice a difference, besides Effexor where I had negative side effects. My psychiatrist hasn’t been the most creative to finding solutions and has opted to put me on more addictive meds. So, I’ve got a new psychiatrist, he seems cooler already just by our first meeting. I’ll let you know how it goes lol.
Anonymous243Anonymous243
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- 50w ago
@edelweiss Good luck with your new psychiatrist! My old one sucked too lol. Ive also tried lexapro and zoloft and didnt see much different. Hope you can find one that works, don’t give up hope
Emmnala Emmnala
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- 50w ago
Zoloft aka Sertaline. No side effects really. Just tired when I started it for a few weeks
Anonymous243Anonymous243
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- 50w ago
@Emmnala Thank you for the comment!
Mamachels88Mamachels88
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- 50w ago
Zoloft and recently added buspar
Anonymous243Anonymous243
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- 50w ago
@Mamachels88 I hope it goes well! Thanks for comment
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