Posted by hollyocd on November 15, 2004, at 13:08:15
Hi Everyone,
I found this board because I was searching the Net for information on a medication recently prescribed. I have OCD and unipolar depression. For nearly 3 years I took 80 mg of Prozac daily for both depression and OCD. Then in Dec. of 2003 I had gastric bypass surgery. Following the surgery I found that Prozac caused horrible nausea. Due to deficits in my healthcare network I was being treated by my general practitioner, who was continuing the prescription given to me by a psychiatrist. So, once the Prozac wouldn't "work" due to my nausea, the GP switched me to 20 mg of Paxil daily telling me this is the clinic's standard treatment for OCD. It did nothing. My OCD and depression became severe. It's been all I can do to get up in the morning, go go to work, and go home. I'm irritable, have crying jags, and have to put forth a gigantic effort to resist my compulsions. My OCD is primarily ruminative, or centered on thoughts. But my compulsions include things like reading Tarot cards online to see if everything will turn out ok. It's funny but when the "voice" inside your head says to read the cards again and again and again it's hell.
So, I found out there is a psychiatrist in my network two hours from here who would see me. The local psych docs in my network either see kids exclusively or work with the local mental helath clinic. To see a clinic psychiatrist I would have to discontinue seeing the cognitive behavioral therapist I've seen for years and who has done me so much good and see a social worker at the mental health clinic. That's not a chance I want to take. So, I went to see the doc 2 hrs away. He seems ok. He prescrived Zonegran, an anti-convulsant. After 2 days it seems to be helping. Of course this may be my imagination, but I'll keep you posted.
holly
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