Posted by Chairman_MAO on February 9, 2004, at 16:44:47
In reply to Re: ONLY REBOXETINE SUCCESS STORIES PLEASE!!! » ace, posted by Maximus on February 9, 2004, at 11:16:07
>By the way, your Roboxetine venture is a real joke. In my opinion, such norepinephrine reuptake would just trigger your comorbid anxiety.
I agree. I mean, there's always a remote chance just about anything will work for anything in the ill-defined psych world, but I think reboxetine for OCD is like using Wellbutrin for panic attacks.
Why bother with reboxetine (which is probably best suited to those with drive-deficient, anergic states such as unipolar depression with ADD or melancholic depression) when there are so many other augmentation strategies that could work for you in treating OCD? One of these should work for you:
--Ever try clonazepam? Highly effective, especially with a serotonergic drug.
--inositol, up to 18g/day. Non-toxic and sometimes extremely effective for all sorts of depressive and anxiety disorders.
--pindolol (7.5mg/day)
-- risperidone (2mg/day) and olanzapine (5 -10mg/day)
--amisulpride 200-600mg/day (300mg probably)
--pimozide (but you dont want to take this unless you have to)
and there are almost certainly others, but these are the ones I could think of/find after a trivial search that I don't think would interact with an MAOI. Even amphetamine has some chance of helping you. Reboxetine probably doesn't.
Best of luck.
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