Advice for switching meds?

[alyssuh]

Hello all. Hope all is well with you. I’ve been on luvox for 4-5 months now and i feel it has really been helping my reaction to obsessive thoughts and doing rituals. However, i feel i am so different from who i am.

I wake up hours later than i like to. I am an early riser and lately i wake up and could keep falling back asleep all day until i finally wake up after 10. I nap nearly everyday, sometimes for 2 hours. My appetite is shit. Some days its fine but most days its so unhealthy and i barely eat. I haven’t worked out properly in weeks because i feel too weak too lift weights because i barely eat.

I’m meeting with my psychiatrist on the 7th of december and i’m going to talk to him about switching to a different med. i’m nervous about it because this is the first med i’ve been on and it really has been helping me ocd wise but messing with the rest of my life. Does anyone have any advice or tips about transitioning into another med? If there was anything short term they experienced (i know each med and person is different) and how they dealt with it.

Thank you

[Hidden]

I have been through the cycle of being on lot of medications.

If the medicine is giving bad side effects, it is a good idea, to try another medicine.

Usually, the Psychiatrist would taper you off slowly from Luvox.

And, then later, try another medication.

I know it is not easy this whole process.

But it is about experimenting these different anti-depressants,

until you reach a stable dose, with minimal side effects,

and if it is helping with the OCD symptoms.

Hoping everything works well for you soon.

[alyssuh in reply to Hidden]

Thank you. The experimenting part just frustrates me because i was fortunate to first try this one and its helped me mentally, and then to try another and realise it doesn’t help the ocd...its annoying. But hopefully it goes well.