numb from medication please help me

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northernlights

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hi i went on medication for ocd when i was 14-20 now i have been off medication for 6 months, during that time i was numb and since then i don't know what it is like to feel.
it has been so long i am starting to get scared if my feelings will come back or because i have developed on it this is what things will be like from now on. if anyone has experience please let me know i am crying over this right now and so scared. thank you.
 
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northernlights

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i feel fine as always but i can not feel deep emotions. i can't feel emotion from music, art, empathy, goosebumps, love.
i want to feel love for my parents, be able to feel music again like i did long ago. i haven't since the medication. i know this is not normal for me, i always thought when i went off it would go back but it hasn't.
 
Noca

Noca

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northernlights said:
prozac, zoloft, and celexa.
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SSRI's can all cause anhedonia (lack of the ability to feel emotions), but I've never heard of that side effect being permanent. The only side effect that SSRI's have that can be permanent is sexual dysfunction as far as I'm aware of.
 
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northernlights

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i feel the numbess is connected to the sexual dysfunction for i have no libido, and i remember as young i had a crazy libido and now i have nothing. also i'm a female too so i can't take viagra but both things went away at the same time.
 
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northernlights

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i've tried wellbutrin and gingko but i had no luck. i think it's something beyond medication, there is something off in my brain i hope can be fixed but at 6 months i'm starting to think maybe not.
 
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northernlights

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i found other people over the internet as well with the same problem as me but have had it for years but i guess you don't always know the back story to it. i guess i'm just seeking out if this is something i'm going to have to live with the rest of my life. i'm okay with the sexual part but i'd like to experience love. i'd like to feel music and art again.
 
Noca

Noca

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northernlights said:
i feel the numbess is connected to the sexual dysfunction for i have no libido, and i remember as young i had a crazy libido and now i have nothing. also i'm a female too so i can't take viagra but both things went away at the same time.
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If you are female my guess is it is a hormonal problem you are having. I suggest asking your doctor about it and maybe getting referred to a specialist who deals with female hormones. Yohimbine I believe will still work even if your a girl.
 
206Raider

206Raider

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I took a few meds long ago, Cymbalta and Prozac and they made me numb. I hated it so I quit cold turkey, they said it's dangerous though and the withdrawals were a bitch. I could have been hospitalized but I didn't want to take pills anymore and feel numb.
 
206Raider

206Raider

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^^ yeah **** all that, you don't want that, that made me so numb I had no emotions. I mean if it works, cool. If it doesn't then I'd change or stop.
 
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Nack

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You guys are kidding me right? I have yet taken any anti-depressant and have mild emotional numbness. If you poke a stick and make me bleed, I probably wouldn't even care....
 
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206Raider

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Nack said:
You guys are kidding me right? I have yet taken any anti-depressant and have mild emotional numbness. If you poke a stick and make me bleed, I probably wouldn't even care....
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Well it's worse, I know how you feel cause I'm not on anything but when I was on Prozac I hated it, you seriously feel no emotion and can't.
 
Remus

Remus

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Well OP as suggested earlier see your GP about this, that really should be your first port of call anyway, people on forums are hardly qualified to help with such a problem
 
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Nack

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Remus said:
Well OP as suggested earlier see your GP about this, that really should be your first port of call anyway, people on forums are hardly qualified to help with such a problem
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I have a degree in being a smart ass, does that count?
 
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Krista

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Nack said:
I have a degree in being a smart ass, does that count?
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If it did, For Real would have a doctorate and be performing lobotomies on everyone. Do you really want that for the world?

Eh, I might. Make things a hell of a lot more interesting. We could make our own zombie movies but in real time! Proceed away.
 
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northernlights

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i have and they don't really know what is wrong. i have gotten my hormones checked as well, we have tried to solve the problem with medication but it didn't work so i'm thinking time is a factor.
 
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