Another intro and question on meds.

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Hi there. My name is and I posted on this group awhile ago and then kind

of have just been reading once in awhile. Last time that I posted my daughter

was diagnosed with anorexia, but then we realized that it was just another form

of her OCD. She was put on Prozac, which was effective for about 9 months. She

is doing great with her eating, but a new compulsion has started. She is now

doing a lot of tapping and touching rituals, sometimes she will also do blinking

rituals, holding her breath, etc. It takes her forever to do simple things. We

have a split level house and her room is in the downstairs and she has a fear of

going up the bottom set of stairs which lead to the front door and also to the

set of stairs that goes up to the rest of our house. She basically has to have

someone " push " her up the stairs or else she can take upwards of 20 minutes

getting up the stairs.

The prozac was no longer effective and she weened off of that and has started

zoloft. The doctor started her only at 25mg of it. Now she has increased for 25

and has been at that dose for about a week. There has been no improvement.

So my questions is, what medications have you found that work best and if your

child takes Zoloft and it is working- what dose is your child taking and how

long did it take before it started working?

Thanks