I’m running out of SSRIs to try. I have been through all of them except two. All either stopped working after awhile or gave me really bad side effects or had ended up causing me to attempt suicide. The ones I haven’t tried are the SNRIs. Has anyone on here tried an SNRI medication? If so did it help?

Haven’t tried SNRIs, but for me what helped when I tried an SSRI and it stopped working after a while is adding a low dose antipsychotic in addition to the SSRI. I’m not a doctor though, and usually it’s best to talk with doctors about medications as everyone is different. I’m definitely kind of a “different” case too because I’ve been on SSRIs for autism symptoms since I was 4, way before I had ocd. When I got ocd we just switched what one I was using and increased the dose, then added abilify. Anyway my point was you have lots of options. Also, are you doing erp alongside medication?

If SSRI’s aren’t working well, you may want to try a different class of drugs. I had also been on various SSRI’s without a lot of success. My psychiatrist did genetic testing, and we found out that genetically, I wasn’t likely to be very responsive to SSRI’s. I tried Pristiq which was amazing! Unfortunately, it did stop working as well after awhile, so I have switched again, but at least I know I probably don’t need to bother with any other SSRI’s.

Yes, I am. I tried ability and it made me so restless. I’m hoping I just need to give the Prozac more time

@anonymous pristiq came up as a good option on my genetics testing so I may try that but I’m scared that it may cause more anxiety than help. How was it for u? Did u have any side effects??

Thank you @anonymous