Posted by yxibow on January 8, 2005, at 23:53:00
In reply to Re: Oh No! I'm Really OCD! » ed_uk, posted by Phillipa on January 8, 2005, at 20:30:33
I took Luvox up until recently for some OCD parts of a condition and then switched to Cymbalta more recently. Most of the Luvox was generic.
The posting made me curious, there's an odd language on a docket at the FDA
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/98fr/03-22359.htm
that makes reference to Solvay's NDA (I guess renewal of patent) being inconsistent but the drug manufacture not being in question, and that's about it. I guess it was dropped. Another dour letter from some woman who blamed Luvox for her son almost leaping from a window -- I question these one-sided SSRI man bites dog complaints, but I digress. Its still being manufactured by at least one generic company, that I know.
For me it did stop ruminative thinking to an extent I think. It also was a medication of choice of the SSRIs because it was the more sedating, i.e. least on the jumpy spectrum... SSRIs being dual use agents there always seems to be a tradeoff... treat your depression more, or your anxiety, or a bit of both but not all.
As a lifetime sufferer of OCD (as most all who have experienced an episode are), of course, I remind that the tools of behaviour therapy are definately something to add to medication regimes. Not easy to do, but something you take with you on your journey in life to prevent another outbreak.
Warmest regards.
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