Re: about to start clomipramine
Originally Posted by
Sober2000june
Ian, I believe you speak quite highly of clomip.
Clomipramine has the best record for OCD so there is a very good chance it will work, Paul, but there are no guarantees. It all comes down to how well it meshes with your biology.
My head is scared because the is last chance saloon, well it feels that way as my new psych doesn’t fill me with any encouragement. She is very patronising.
Sigh! Then she may make the journey to recovery a little harder. Any chance of getting a different one?
Clomipramine is not your last chance, there are still the MAOI class ADs as monotherapy. Phenelzine (Nardil) is the most effective AD I've taken, but back in the 1980s the food restrictions presented a problem with my lifestyle at the time. Modern food processing techniques have diminished the need to avoid most of the foods that were problematic back then and provided you have control over the ingredients in what you eat (which I didn't always) MAOIs should present few problems these days. And if MAOIs don't do it for you then we get into the exciting realm of poly-pharmacy.
My mood is definitely low and my anxiety high. Part of me thinks clomipramine may help as my head constantly obsesses about the meds what they are doing to me and will i ever be Normal me again.
'Normal' is overrated! Seriously. What the clomipramine will hopefully do is return your brain to close to its pre OCD state by stimulating the growth of new brain cells to replace those lost to stress.
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