Posted by Crazy Horse on April 13, 2006, at 5:51:35
In reply to Meds for trichotillomania?, posted by Caedmon on April 12, 2006, at 22:55:53
> Any ideas?
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> My Sx are mainly pulling my eyebrow hairs and skin picking and rubbing of my face and neck. It's really bothering me in conjunction w/ acne. My acne meds cause some degree of skin peeling and increased epithelial turnover. So, I end up rubbing off dead skin cells or "finding" tags of dead skin. (Acne meds are 100mg bid minocycline, also benzaclin qam and tazorac qpm.) This in turn causes more acne, since I've got my stupid hands all over my face half the day. The hair pulling is less bothersome, in fact it probably keeps me somewhat groomed, lol.
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> I know there's like, nothing. Prognosis is poor. But I'd be willing to give almost anything a shot. For the record I'm not sure if my TTM fits within an OCD spectrum problem, or is more of a motor tic (this is my inclination... not preceded by obessions or anxiety) or exists by itself (as it does in most people w/ TTM).
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> I've heard serotonergics could help. They don't from what I've been on. I've heard antipsychotics could help. I love my Risperdal (which I take prn for manic episodes), but it's never done anything in that area and I'm too scared to try anything more hardcore such as haloperidol.
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> Naltrexone you think?
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> I'm a 23-yr-old male. BP-II, social phobia, binge eating, and the trich. And assorted oddities. I take Parnate 10 now titrating up to 30 mg, Topamax 100mg, diazepam 10mg. Supplements: fish oil 3 g epa/dha, multivitamin, 1/3 B-complex, Vitamin E 400IU, Vitamin C 500mg, Ginkgo biloba 60mg bid.
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> If you read my entire post and bother to reply, I would like to take you out for drinks. Thanks,
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> - CHey C,
I'm hoping and thinking the Parnate may help..seriously. As your dose gets higher of course. This illness sounds at least related to ocd, which i have, but is currenty nonexistant due partially to the Parnate, the other Cognitive behavioral therapy. I'm not a huge advocate of "talk therapy" but for ocd it really helped and i think for trichotillomania it could be very helpful too. If you do it, find a very good counselor...I've wasted a hell of a lot of $ on crappy ones. Good luck!Crazy Horse (a.k.a Tyler)
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