Re: Med Change/Barb

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Hi Barb,

Good to hear your son is doing well on the zoloft. Our son's pdoc

just switched him to zoloft. Waiting to see if it is any better with

his OCD symptoms than Lexapro was. Even though the SSRIs haven't really

helped with any of his OCD symptoms yet, they have helped his overall

anxiety and mood. We are also glad to see him be more of his silly,

goofy, more talkative, and annoying self. Didn't think I'd ever say

that LOL. Well, I hope upping the dose for your son helps and doesn't

cause him to slide into hypomania. Good luck. You and your son are in

my thoughts and prayers.

Take care

Connie

>

> Hi Bj. Yes, the zoloft seems the same as celexa, in terms of an

> immediate response. It's hard to know whether it's the mood that is

> affected or the OCD, since boosting either makes coping easier. It

> seems to me that it might be more the mood that is affected and then

> he is able to cope better, but the edginess about contamination stuff

> is less too. He is more of his silly, annoying self, more talkative

> too, what used to only annoy we now are so happy to see!

>

> Now of course I'm watching to see if this will slide into hypomania

> if we up the dose...hard not to be apprehensive given past

> experience. Both his psychiatrist and psychologist are away for 2

> weeks now. I swear this happens every time we make a drug change!

> It's almost like they don't want to be around for any fall out (I'm

> not this paranoid really), it's uncanny though.

>

> He is only at 50mg and I'm trying to decide whether to increase to

> 75mg or 100mg. We were given no instructions, not even a refill, had

> to call and ask secretary to ask the replacement doctor and just told

> them the dose of 50mg, so now I can go to the pharmacy and ask them

> to give me 25mg capsules so I can control the dosing. So it goes

> around here where you figure it out on your own. I know it's not that

> they don't care at all, they are just so busy and really don't know

> what to do half the time anyway.

>

> We are enjoying the relatively peaceful time and hoping this will be

> a positive gain. brushed his teeth for the first time in a

> year(?), ok, I did the brushing...but he let me! At least we might

> avert having his teeth fall out or worse. Such is life living with

> OCD when you celebrate being able to brush your 16 yr olds teeth!

>

> Thanks for asking! Glad you are out in the garden enjoying

> sunshine. So good to have spring!

>

> Hugs!

> Barb