Posted by yxibow on October 3, 2008, at 22:34:10
In reply to Re: For Those of You with OCD, posted by Trepanist on October 2, 2008, at 21:13:46
> > Hey that's great to both and did you have a lot of side effects with the lexapro as on 50mg of luvox forever and valium and .5 xanax. Thanks Phillipa
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> Hi Phillipa, never took luvox, but lexapro is great for me, no side affects other than a reduced libido. I have heard that xanax is bad all around, short half life, unpredictable. From what I understand and my own experience tells me, Klonopin is mild and consistent. I've been on it for three years and have never had to up the dose.
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> Best,
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> MarkLexapro did some pretty bad GI things to me and I abandoned it, but it was more for depression -- and I was/am on a fair amount of other things.
Luvox worked in the past, I guess, for OCD, primarily for depression and a potential idea for a very complex disorder.
It does actually have strengths that it was marketed for, for some, with OCD.
However, Lexapro for most is supposed to be the most "clean" in terms of serotonin profile and other things, of the SSRIs.
I'm glad it has helped you.
OCD is a tough lifelong, for most, condition, since for nearly everyone it may be triggered by something psychological but it has its biological roots.
I had severe OCD as a teenager and was hospitalized at 17 with a YBOCS of nearly 40 out of 40 basically. (There are other scales I think, but thats irrelevant). Through hard work and a program I fought off that without medication. I didn't actually start taking Prozac until after I left the hospital.
My current disorder, which is very complicated, has OC components to it. I do take Luvox but its primarily for something for depression, as Lamictal may be.
The toughest part of my OCD now is constant repetitive words and phrases, and even repeating conversations in my head, or what I'm typing right now, who knows -- especially when the other strong anxiety parts of my disorder raise their level. I tell myself to just let it flow, but that's exactly what happens, it flows.
So there's OCD of OCD or something, I mean it bugs me and distracts me. But there's really nothing I can do, I've had enough medication in my system and I'm now very sensitive to a lot of things.
Its a challenge and a lot of work is not -- I'm not saying for you -- but for a lot of people, not just in merely medication. CBT, if one is ready to do it, is a classic intervention. It takes time and there is resistance as I know.
If one was to make a broad generalization (which isn't really a good thing on the board as everyone is different), nonetheless people who are in the OC Spectrum seem to do better with structure.
College, while I had some trouble rereading passages, etc, dysthymia and the like, nonetheless I persevered I think in part because of the structured nature of things.
As for the present -- there are a lot of things that are real, and a whole host of things that are too complicated to go into at the moment and I'd rather not think about it, building some sort of structure slowly would be a good thing as some sort of pattern (plus building my self esteem) may give me hope.
I wish you well and I wish people with OCD well, it is a tough disorder and roughly I believe at least 2% of people have some sort of Spectrum disorder.If there's a start for anyone in wonder, there is the OC Foundation.
-- best wishesJay
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