Medication

[Ryan9]

i was recentely taken off of Paxil and put on Zoloft for my OCD. I did not think the Paxil was helping but in hindsight i think it was a great deal. I just started the Zoloft but i am going through a deep depression and my OCD is bad. What medications seem to work best for everyone?

 

[stacii]

Thank God for Zoloft. It has made a huge difference in me. I still get anxious sometimes and even a touch of depression, but I am so much better than I was this time last year. I'll admit, I think the first few days I was on it were tough. I'll be praying that you find the right medication!

 

[Mskedi]

If the switch was recent you shouldn't expect anything good for quite a few weeks. My mom's last medication switch, for example, took about six weeks to kick in. During that six weeks she had an incredibly rough time, but it ended up being worth it.

Give your new medication some time, communicate with your doctor regularly, and make yourself feel some hope that it may work better. Worst case scenario is it ends up the Paxil was better and you go back to that... meanwhile, it's a couple months of your life that may end up worth the depression.

 

[Hello There]

Do you need doctors approval?

 

[Brokyn888]

I have Medium ocd its not were i dont notice it and its not where I suffer 24 hours a day,but it gets pretty bad,,i dont take medicine because my parents dont like medicine like when kids take adhd med there not like there selves and they stay in more and act different but I dont need it badly but god has also helped me with it

 

[tapero]

Do you need doctors approval?

Hi, It's best to call your doctor when doing anything with medication. Some medications need to be weaned down slowly, and just stopping a medication causes problems also.

So, please check with your doctor if this was about you, because they need to know and advise about medications.

Blessings,
Tapero

 

[SkyCloud]

Zoloft helped me before. After a month of taking it, it worked, thanks to God only. I felt so good that I soon got off of it and tried to resist on my own. I resisted for about a year, and now I'm on my first week back on Zoloft. A big reason why I didn't want to take Zoloft was the risks and side-effects, but like I said, things have gotten so bad that I'm back on it.

You have to talk to your doctor and see if zoloft is the right medication for you.

I'm not a medication taker. I don't like to take medication. So if I'm on medication, that means things have really, really gotten bad.

 

[kandcmom]

I take Luvox and it helps. It took awhile but it did help my thought s and anxiety

 

[gracealone]

Hi,
First Doc. tried Paxil with me. I pretty much climbed the walls with that.. extreme increase in my anxiety... then Zoloft same thing but I toughed it out for 15 days waiting for it to kick in. Then I developed a rash on my arms and Doc. took me off it. I'm one of those individuals who gets paradoxical anxiety at first with meds. So then they put me on Remeron.. started with higher dose 30 mgs. because there's less side affects at higher dose. Then they added 15 mgs. of Buspar. Buspar caused the paradoxical anxiety also so I had to work my way up with baby step doses, but now I'm doing well on it. Remeron makes me very hungry which was nice at first as I could hardly eat anything. Now I'm working out and trying to diet to avoid gaining too much weight on it. It really helps me get a good night sleep also. I would say that these meds. have given me about a 70 percent improvement in my symptoms which I feel is very good. I'm very functional on them.. though I still battle the thoughts from time to time.

 

[stacii]

I'm glad you found something that worked.

 

[wiggsfly]

I've actually been taking St John's Wort since Christmas and until the last week I haven't had any attacks at all.