Medication/Dosage for OCD

[@JR-bi6lg]

I have OCD and I’ve been on medication for just two days and I’ve noticed a huge difference.

[@JAktorFIFA]

What about now?

[@spike_sw3020]

Whats the name you are using

[@JAktorFIFA]

@@spike_sw3020 setralin

[@JR-bi6lg]

My medication is still helping, I still get intrusive thoughts but it’s easier to manage. The medication I’m on is sertraline.

[@MarDrinksalot]

@@JR-bi6lgdid it kill your libido?

[@nunyaabizz4807]

I’m on Luvox and it’s helped with the OCD but it’s made my anxiety much worse. I have GAD too. I’m moodier, and quick to anger I’ve noticed. It’s working for one thing but making other things worse. It’s truly exhausting trying to find the right medication

[@mikeodee1164]

@mikeodee1164 0 seconds ago @ashutoshbhol667 im no longer severly harmed by many severely sick in the head and very dangerous white middle class american criminals and im no longer victimized by them so i feel one thousand times better and i live one thousand times beter life in usa thanks to the truly normal arabs

[@lavenderonline43]

I’ve exhausted all SSRI/SNRI, tried gabapentin and risperidone but I’ve been sensitive and had side effects. I’m only using benzos now as and when. Currently waiting for therapy ☹️

[@yeahright6021]

Hey Laura 👋 Hope you’ve found the right help/medication . I’m on my first ssri (Prozac) And so far, so bad.. i feel like I’m worse off ever since I started with this medication. I can’t help feeling that ssri or snri aren’t going to work on me. I aware it’s only been 3 months since you commented here, but I would love to hear how things have been working out for you and if you had any recent success 🙏

[@saff1257]

how was risperidone? i’ve heard it helps tics which is great because i have rice as well as ocd, caused by ocd or a tic disorder who knows?

[@lavenderonline43]

@@saff1257 I only managed 1 week and then I had to discontinue as I couldn’t function. I kept dropping things and not remembering conversations etc

[@shawnleong3605]

@@saff1257 please please don’t take it. It is an antipsychotic with a much worse side effect profile, as if SSRIs are not devastating to begin with. Don’t plat into the hands of hungry and greedy doctors and big Pharma

[@mikeodee1164]

try kal magnesium glycinate for ocd it works very well for me

[@stellaancimer8505]

For my severe ocd, with huge imagies, thoughts only antypsihotic helps the most😊

[@versatilehumanbeing6013]

Which anti psychotic u were on Stella?

[@stellaancimer8505]

@@versatilehumanbeing6013 i take quetiapine 50 mg..you also have ocd?

[@mikeodee1164]

psych meds never helped for my ocd and anti depresants only helps 50 percent alpha lipoic acid helps 100 percent for my depression and magnesium has helped alot for my ocd

[@mikeodee1164]

other people i knew psych meds also never helped their ocd

[@stellaancimer8505]

​@@mikeodee1164this are not facts for everyone 🙏

[@leiurus.]

I tried all ssri's and anti psychotics and mood stabilizers gabapentin they were all really traumatic and make everything worse they make you feel dead inside like you forget how to feel happy its horrible gabapentin put me in a tremendous anxiety state of mind I would be having racing thoughts and extreme amounts of energy made impossible to fall asleep without feeling fear

[@MrTaib-kj4ib]

That’s strange, Gabapentin is a depressant and basically calms your brain so maybe u took something else with it that caused your racing thoughts and anxiety (like too much coffee or nicotine through smoking). Phenibut is another gabaergic substance that’s similar to Gabapentin maybe you could try that. But be careful only use small doses and educate yourself about it. Other gabaergics that might help are baclofen and pregabalin. Do your research on these.

[@ansar4454]

Did you try each one for a good amount of time or were you switching medications often? If it was the latter, then maybe that's why you didn't consider certain meds to be effective.

[@leiurus.]

@@ansar4454 yeah your right most of them I tried for at least a month and a half others I didn't try for as long ive only been on paroxetine xr for 1 year and a half I could say thats the only one that help ease my anxiety but yeah I tried most and thats the only one that came close to helping my depression.

[@stellaancimer8505]

​@@ansar4454exactly..People dont get it that when you first start it it get worse alot worst but it takes time, more then Two weeks, sometimes 8 weeks to see the effect😊

[@mikeodee1164]

i also take alpha lipoic acid fantastic for depression

[@linandy1]

I always hear bad things about these drugs from people, seems like they don't actually work and or cause side effects that are awful.

[@thecreationproject7005]

They work for people when they are properly diagnosed. They thought I was depressed put me on anti depressants didnt work, then they thought I was bi polar and put me on anti psychotics and it was awful, they realized it could be OCD and treated me with prozac and oxcarbenzapine and I feel like a real person now! I’m not struggling with thoughts that no matter how hard I try I cannot get rid of. I don’t have fight or flight reflexes to simple thoughts or intrusive images. I have read books, gone to therapy, yoga retreats, tried different environments, hobbies, sports, friends, tried every religion nothing helped. It’s almost like symbolic of having a demon inside me my entire life bc I didn’t have control over my own thoughts and fears and they’d take up so much of my time. Maybe that’s where the whole demon exorcism stuff came from., They may have thought not being in control of your own mental state meant someone else was in control, and if that someone else is causing bad thoughts they must be evil. It feels so damn good to finally be able to put down my sword and have peace inside of my mind. I can now make plans more than a day in advance because I don’t have to worry about whether or not I’ll be having a ‘bad mental health day’ that day and ruin the plans i make. I can finally enjoy life instead of before when i was just trying to cope with having to exist here.

[@CathyLoretta]

@@thecreationproject7005 How are the meds going now after 3 months! :)

[@stellaancimer8505]

​​@@thecreationproject7005you explain perfectly..but still it is not a demon but Brain stuff, i know you know it..can i Ask you how much prozac you take? It was really good for me, but i was on High dose like 80mg and gave me convulsions, now i am on sertralin but it make me sleep all the time..and like you Said i also try everything, Reading books, ect..going to therapy, but this stuff even if i talk and talk finding the reason, didnt go away, and being in flight or flight all the time because of the fears, and imagies is terible, i never understand People who say that i have to retrain the brain, it Just didnt Work for me..oh and btw did you have bad experience with antypsihotic? For me they are good for sleeping and making me calm😊

[@thecreationproject7005]

@@stellaancimer8505 the anti-psychotics would make me too drowsy and slightly paranoid and i started to feel like I was having mini seizures sometimes., so now I take 40mg a day prozac and no other medications besides the occasional joint and I feel AMAZING! 🥲 I feel like I can enjoy life💕

[@mikeodee1164]

i knew a few people who took psych meds for ocd it helped none of them

[@shaun4443]

, I HAVE BEEN SIX MONTHS OFF ZOLOFT AND STILL LIVING IN HELL!

[@mo87m]

I have been on 200mg for 3 months and it's done squat for my OCD. I read a couple of articles online explaining how sertraline can go up to 400mg for OCD non-responders, with similar adverse event rates. I'll present it to my doctor and see what he says.

[@mikeodee1164]

@@mo87m try magnesim glycinate for your ocd it helps me alot for my ocd give it about 3 weeks to work i learned about magnesim for ocd from google search

[@stellaancimer8505]

​@@mo87myes mine also say this, i was on huge dose 250mg some Years ago, it really make a diffrence😊

[@StellaM22]

Inositol is meant to work

[@stellaancimer8505]

Not for severe ocd

[@mikeodee1164]

i knew several people with ocd the different meds they were on did not help at all for their ocd

[@mikeodee1164]

no meds can help ocd

[@Anonymous_Anon882]

@@mikeodee1164 there’s a drug called clomipramine which works very well for OCD. It’s not a first-line treatment anymore because of worse/more severe potential side-effects but it works better. It’s perfect for things like OCD.

[@mikeodee1164]

@@Anonymous_Anon882 no way that does not help i knew people who took it adn other meds for ocd it does nothing for them i read valerian root helps for ocd

[@stellaancimer8505]

@@mikeodee1164 you cant speak for everyone..i couldnt function without meds, they help so much for my ocd

[@-memelord-6314]

@@mikeodee1164 Dude, valerian root is only a myth XD, there has not been any scientific prove for that.