UPDATE: 2014-11-13
Vitamin D3 is helping her OCD tremendously!
After having some success with supplements (mostly temporary). I remembered my daughter always seemed to be in a better mood when I was giving her vitamin D. I started her on 1000 IU twice per day (morning and bedtime). Her anxiety almost completely disappeared after the first day. I upped her to 2000iu twice per day to get her levels up as quickly as possible. She reported some anxiety after 3-4 days of this so I backed her down to 1000 x 2 again where she's been for the last week.
She is doing very well. Her OCD was getting worse. She was having a problem writing. Her intrusions were being triggered by her writing so she basically stopped (trigger avoidance). Not good for someone in school. She was able to just erase the last character/letter she wrote if an intrusion happened and try again. It was excruciating to watch her write. She would get 2-3 letters and back to erase and sit there with pencil poised waiting for a mental opening to try the letter again. It broke my heart to see this.
She was also having what's called a "mini ritual" of distracting herself. She wasn't doing schoolwork or anything else just on her phone and tablet distracting herself with blogs and videos, pinterest and such.
So at this point we had tried most everything supplement wise and was thinking about the drug route. The Vitamin D has worked so well she is able to write normally! I've been working with her to get her back on track in school. I had to sit with her to get her through doing homework. This week she has gone back to doing it by herself. Last night finished all her Chemistry homework by herself. This is a straight A student who brought her progress report home yesterday with 2 F's and 2 C's.. poor child. The OCD has basically put her life on hold. She has done well to hold herself together this far.
Since the 2 weeks since I started the Vitamin D she is now back to her cheerful old self.
Her daily supps are as follows:
Morning: 200mg Ester C 24 hr immune support, 1/4 Jarrow Multi, 15mg zinc, 10mg p5p, Jarrow Mineral Balance, D3 1000IU
Evening: Beta SitoSterol (cortisol reduction/ sleep), Glycine (reduce glutamate), D3 1000 IU
I'm pretty sure she would be just fine without anything but the D3 and will be scaling back her other supps one at a time to find this out.
Praying that this time it stays.
Note: I wrote this addendum for those interested here but also for anyone doing a web search that they may find also. I didn't consider Vitamin D at all. It may help others, may not but something to try.