Anyone on clompirimine?

[mummytopebs]

Has an ingredient in it changed. I have been feeling really ill after any alcohol (even a half) noticed it now has a big warning on it about alcohol. Also worried because i know you are supposed to have a blood test for liver function every year whilst on it, can it do something to your liver?

[mummytopebs]

anyone at all i am beginning to think i am the only one

[Servalan]

Do you mean Clomipramine?

I'm on Clomipramine and have been on and off it for about 10 years.

I don't know if any ingredient has been changed. If it has, my doctor has never mentioned it to me. I've not noticed a difference in how I feel taking it.

The advice for the whole time I've been on it has been to avoid alcohol. I must admit that I do have a drink now and again, though I probably shouldn't, but I am on quite a low dosage. It has never made me feel ill. I'm not sure why the advice is to avoid alcohol - if you are worried, probably best chatting with GP or pharmacist?

I've never been told to take a blood test for liver function - as I say, I've been taking it, on and off, for 10 years (perhaps I'd better mention this to the doctor!!!) Are you sure this is the case? Where did you hear it?

If alcohol is making you feel ill, I'd say probably best lay off it. Could you have a chat with your doctor about this too, just to put your mind at rest?

[mummytopebs]

If you read in the leaflet you get in the packet it says about having a liver function test every year if you are on it long term. Have you took it whilst pregnant?

[Servalan]

Hi mummytopebs

Oops, fell asleep on the sofa and only just woke up

I thought we had been on a thread about Clomipramine together before - I just found it.

I didn't take it when pregnant. I personally didn't like the idea of it, although I'm not sure how I would feel if pregnant again, I would need to have a long chat with my doctor, though I see from the last thread that it was something you discussed with your doctor already and that this was an area of concern for you.

I hope you don't mind me asking - this just occurs to me because of being an OCD sufferer myself and knowing how it affects me - are you getting any obsessive thoughts around the Clomipramine itself? Has your doctor been able to organise any talking therapy along with your medication to give you extra support?

I'll have a little look at the leaflet tomorrow (or rather later today!!) when I'm a bit more with-it to see what it says about liver function.

[mummytopebs]

How do you mean obsessive thoughts around the clom?

I still have irrational/obsessive thoughts and have decided today after talking to dh that i will up my dose back to 2 tablets *(been on one tablet for about 6 month). How long have you been on clom? I was on it when i was a teenager for around a year and am back on it now for about 2 years. The talking therapy helped a lot in that i can now do everyday tasks again but need the tablets as without them my irrational takes over the rational with or without therapy.

Its nice to talk to others on the same meds

[Servalan]

Hi

What I meant about obsessive thoughts about the clom was whether you were finding yourself fixating about it or worrying about it a lot. It only occurred to me because you had posted a couple of threads where you expressed concerns.

I'm not assuming that you are btw or being judgy, just knowing that with my OCD, I'll start worrying/fixating on a certain thing, then it becomes huge, then I have panic attacks and it gets very difficult for me. One of the ways I deal with it is to ask for reassurance, often repeatedly about things.

Just wondered if you were on the point of this about the clom because I know how difficult I find it when it happens to me.

Anyway, if that's not what's happening to you, please don't take offence for me asking, just wanted to make sure you were OK really

I've been on clomipramine for around 10 years on and off. I'm 37 now. I first showed signs of OCD when I was about 18. I didn't seek help for it until my mid twenties and I was resistant to taking medication for quite a while after that.

I've sometimes come off it altogether - once for a couple of years, a couple of times for a few months, and I've been OK, but then often something will trigger the OCD again - I'll get a fixation, I'll get in a state and it will trigger all my past OCD behaviour.

I am on quite a low dosage - I've never been on a particularly high dosage of it. I find it doesn't take away my anxieties, I still have the thoughts, but it somehow allows me to compartmentalise how I feel so I can deal with it objectively.

I don't know how long I will end up taking it. I am on the waiting list for more CBT from my local Mental Health Trust (luckily there is decent mental health provision where I am) and it looks like I'll have the same therapist as before, which is great because I really trust her.

I remember from before that your OCD is quite different to mine in how it presents itself (with me it's a fear that something I do will unintentionally cause someone harm because I have in some way been careless/irresponsible).

It's good that you are able to talk about it with your DH. I can to a certain extent with mine, but he will often lose patience and get quite frustrated with me.

You mentioned upping your dose - what does your doctor say about that? (I know that some of the tablets contain more miligrams than others)

[mummytopebs]

Hi servalan dont think i have obsessive thoughts about clom but do worry a lot. The pregnancy thing comes from having 2 mc whilst in cloma nd am worried that is what caused it. My ocd when i was a teenager was very ritualistic doing rituals to stop bad things happening to others. The ocd manifested itself 2 years ago in a nervous breakdown cos i was fixated in thinking the world wasent real and having very irrational thoughts, the clom and therapy is controlling the thoughts at the moment but i do sometimes find myself sinking back into them. I dont think once you have ocd it ever goes away, i quite often touch things etc so that something wont happen i just do this second nature now