Posted by SLS on September 2, 2015, at 1:35:04
In reply to Re: Any success stories with Prozac? » phidippus, posted by Lucy_B on September 1, 2015, at 22:14:17
I don't have OCD, but I have been highly motivated to spend huge amounts of time researching many different medical resources in an effort to find an answer to successfully treat my illness that my doctors have thus far been unable to. Is this an obsession? Perhaps it is an obsession according to some popular non-psychiatric definitions. I do know that it is not due to having OCD. I am just very focused on the task at hand and am determined to feel better and function effectively. I just want my health. The day I find myself feeling well is the day I no longer have to conduct medical research. One of the dimensions of OCD is that it necessarily interferes with functioning on a day-to-day basis. I don't have anxiety caused by intrusive and unwelcomed obsessional thoughts.
I think Eric (Phidippus) is right about your having OCD, but I think it deservers a more detailed exploration of your symptoms and behaviors by a psychiatric specialist to make a definitive diagnosis and separate out anxiety and depression as possible comorbidities. As I'm sure Eric will tell you, it is usually necessary to use higher dosages of SSRIs and wait longer in order for an improvement in this condition to emerge.
Just a thought on the OCD, depression, anxiety, and IBD... All of these conditions are treatable to some degree by taking clomipramine (Anafranil). Clomipramine is a tricyclic with potent serotonin reuptake inhibition. Perhaps one drug will hit all of these targets for you. That would be convenient, but it is not really so important that you find one single drug to attain your health. I take six for bipolar depression alone. In any event, clomipramine does not come without side effects - most of which are anticholinergic. There are a few studies that suggest clomipramine has anti-inflammatory properties similar to fluoxetine. Tricyclics in general have demonstrated the ability to improve inflammatory bowel disease as well as irritable bowel syndrome. SSRIs have been disappointing.
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