Posted by bob on March 10, 2000, at 19:53:36
In reply to Re: medication breaks and increased OCD?, posted by Cindy W on March 10, 2000, at 9:09:10
I had a parallel problem with zoloft -- it managed my depression marvelously (or maybe too marvelously). So I stopped. And I crashed. And zoloft has done nothing for my depression since. Nor has any other SSRI ... but it took a few years to find that out.
The one and only thing zoloft was able to manage for me to the very end was my OCD. Like Janice says, my is very much related to my anxiety, and my anxeity is bound pretty tightly to my depression as well. Recently, I had to make a choice as to what I should add to my nortrip/klonopin cocktail to deal with it -- something to specifically address the OCD, or (I figured) something to augment the nortrip and boost the AD effect I was getting. I chose (to push my pdoc into prescribing) Ritalin, for the latter. It worked. Depression has lifted some, and the OCD is under control again.
So, the short of it is yes, going off a med then going back on can find you having a different reaction, and not always (rarely?) a good difference.
If you feel the effexor and adderall are dealing with your depression adequately, why not something to target the OCD? An SSRI at a low dose, like zoloft or luvox, may be just the trick and may give the effexor a little kick as well. Cloniprimine has also been used to treat it, or klonopin (at a slightly higher dose than I currently take ... those four were the meds I was considering on my "target the OCD" option).
cheers,
bob
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