I am suffering from ocd. I am taking medicine of daxid 100 mg. From last four days, how many days take to go ocd.

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Dear lybrate-user, was ocd diagnosed by a psychiatrist? Then she/he would have asked you to come back for follow up. You can ask your questions to the treating doctor. Generally ocd is a chronic disabling disorder. It needs long term treatment. Daxid takes 2-3 weeks to start its action. It works at a certain dose that will be built up every 2-3 weeks. The dose depends on the effect vs side effect. Some persons living ocd need cbt with erp also. Ocd can co-occur with major depressive disorder and other disorders.

Saranya Devanathan · Accepted Answer

Dear lybrate-user, was ocd diagnosed by a psychiatrist? Then she/he would have asked you to come back for follow up. You can ask your questions to the treating doctor. Generally ocd is a chronic disabling disorder. It needs long term treatment. Daxid takes 2-3 weeks to start its action. It works at a certain dose that will be built up every 2-3 weeks. The dose depends on the effect vs side effect. Some persons living ocd need cbt with erp also. Ocd can co-occur with major depressive disorder and other disorders.

Prof. Jagadeesan M.S. · Answer

Ocd is a long term, for many life time disorder. Be mentally prepared for the same. It is like diabetes or hypothryoidism, due to serotonergic pathway changes it occurs. So rather than brooding about how long to take medication, be happy effective treatment is there for leading a productive and near normal life with ocd and attend your review with your psychiatrist regularly. Good luck.

Saul Pereira · Answer

You are being treated with the right medication and need to consult your doctor after three weeks to study your progress. Length of use depends on your response to the treatment. If you are concerned about extensive use, meet with a counselor too. Please take your parents with you to determine the possible developmental issues that may have contributed to this condition. This is a fear-based condition and for some reason, you have not been dealing with this childhood fear which has now developed into these repetitive adaptations to seem to need it for normal functioning. The behavior will then become based on magical thinking and certain rituals will become necessary to do normal things making you believe that either the frequency or the ritual is important to its success. This of course is a fallacy but there will come a time that even if told the truth, your belief will defy any logic and you will continue behaving like that even if it cripples you in your daily routines. It only appears as though some other force is behind these behaviors and that you are compelled to act in this fashion. That is obviously not true but no one can convince you of anything different. The obsession is a repeating thought pattern with no meaningful outcome, and the compulsiveness is the need to act on those obsessions also in a repeated behavior pattern as though you just cannot help yourself. This is all driven by fear and when you are frustrated with it, you will escalate anger over it. Doubt, insecurity, uncertainty, and lack of firm memory will all plague you and increase stress. There are certain behavioral techniques to be implemented and if they work you may get out of this condition rather easily.

Gaurav Aggarwal · Answer

Hello, it depends on patient to patient. But on an average medication start showing their results within a month and within 2-3 months 80 percent of the symptoms are controlled. Total duration for which medication is taken is 6 months after the symptoms are gone.

Juhi Parashar · Answer

Course is of few months so relax. Secondly start therapy then you will get beautiful results.