Has anyone else on here been prescribed Fluvoxamine for OCD? Have you had a good experience with it? A bad experience? Any feedback will help me. Thanks!! Thanks!!

Hi Mackenzie. I hated it honestly. I tried it a few years back and started at the 50 mg. It relieved some anxiety but it made me feel disconnected from everything. Like I’m in a bubble. Anyways over the years I’ve gone back and forth using it and not and everytime it give me a massive vomiting migraine by the third day, extreme restless legs within hours, and trembling and weakness. That prescribed dose for me is 200mg but even 100 caused me those effects and 50 started the restless legs. That’s just my experience though. A lot of people have found it worked for them. Just be mindful of side effects for any medication because our bodies are all different. Best of luck <3

Also that’s what I’m still “prescribed” but I don’t take it :(

Hi Smiley, Thank you so much. I had tried it for a very short time and stopped years ago and I couldn’t remember anything. Reading your comment

Made me remember that restless leg thing and it was awful. If I remember I also went up to 200mg.

I was on something else this is also years ago, and that had the worst side effects. Like weight gain, milk from my breasts and I can’t remember but some pretty bad other side effects.

It seems like all these medicines make you feel disconnected. Thanks a lot! Thanks a lot! Thanks a lot! Thanks a lot! I am so happy to hear you say that and that I am not the only one who is prescribed something and I don’t take it either. Do you still see the doctor who prescribes it? I do and he doesn’t know I don’t take it. I feel so awful, but I just know these don’t help me and haven’t, you know?

Thank you so much.

It sucks, I spent half the day with the OCD thoughts taking over and darkness closing in and secondhalf desperately trying to see they are ‘only thoughts’ to no avail

I have had no luck with medications either. Sorry about your doctor.

I actually only talk to mine on the phone because of the same thing, he is great but I can’t get to him. He’s not that far, but the OCD makes it hard for me to get on a bus to nyc from a town that is so close. It’s crazy.

Also my mom was visitinrg and had to leave my uncle passed away and now I am alone in nyc for thanksgiving and have reservations to a great restaurant I’ve been wanting to go to for two years and may Not be able to go this year either AGAIN. People are like ‘you’ll get over it’ they don’t get for OCD to wait for two years and plan everything and then my own OCD ruined it again because in addition, I also got these OCD thoughts that she had to leave. She lives very far and there is no way she is or wants to come back. If you’re in nyc or want to come you’d be my guest. And it’s a reservation for three so you can bring someone????!!!! Maybe I should also post this????