Any medication that actually works for health anxiety?

[Doggielove 1]

I know nothing will ever take this disorder away but is there any medication that works better in controlling the obsessive thoughts? I have been on several antidepressants but I am not depressed. I want to live and I want to be normal. I just want the anxiety to be fine or at least to a point I can handle it without a breakdown . I wonder if adding one of those add on meds like abilify woukd help?? Ty 

[Ironman 153]

15 hours ago, Doggielove said:

I know nothing will ever take this disorder away but is there any medication that works better in controlling the obsessive thoughts? I have been on several antidepressants but I am not depressed. I want to live and I want to be normal. I just want the anxiety to be fine or at least to a point I can handle it without a breakdown . I wonder if adding one of those add on meds like abilify woukd help?? Ty 

Each person reacts differently to different medications.  The only thing you can do is try them out with a doctor.

Celexa was my first medication - it worked, but then I got off of it when I thought things were good.  Then my "Biblical Job" trial - two years of unemployment and literally eveythign around me collapsing.....including people at a spiritually abusive church, leading to PTSD.  Ironically, twelve days after I left that church (they tried to kick me out twice incorrectly!) I landed a job.  I was not ready for the shock, but I did it.  At that point, I had gone back to a doctor....we tried Lexapro (maxed on it and it didn't work), Lithium (like eating a battery - made any OCD I thought I could ever explode), and then Paxil - up to 50mg and antipsychotic Geodon 20mg to put me to sleep at night.  I was only on the Geodon for about two months.  I could have slept 12 hours on that; it was too much.  Eventually, I got down 20mg - but still gained a ton of weight.  

A couple years ago, I transitioned from Paxil (Paroxetine) to Cymbalta (Duloxetine) in an attempt to lose some of the weight.  

[BeautifulDisaster 53]

I don’t know much specifically about meds but I know health anxiety is more seen as a form of OCD.  I would talk to whoever prescribed you the anti depressant and ask about meds that are more helpful for OCD.  I hope you are able to find something that works for you. As Ironman was basically saying, there is a lot of trial and error. Don’t give up.