![]() I'm taking zoloft so I know what I'm talking about. I completly understand all reasons why we took this drug but you should also be aware of what it does on your body. Majors attacks are provocked by Sertraline too.ĭon't forget that drug modifies brain chemistry and all the times you want to try stop it your brain want to recover its normal state (body is a really perfect thing). This psychotropic is extremely harmful and you musn't stop it without taking precautions and very slowly. It has been 20 years since I took sertraline and every time I wanted to stop I had horrible symptoms that appeared. My doctor gave me 100mg per day for 5 years and then (about few months) I tried to decrease to 50 mg. I live in France and at that time Zoloft was just beginning to appear on the pharmaceutical market. Twenty years after giving birth to my daughter, I began to have violent and regular panic attacks. I have always believed in the quality of my time on earth as opposed to quantity. Or He can take me anytime before another attack, just take me home painlessly. 20 yrs without another OCD anxiety depression attack. So I turn to God and beg that He gives me 20 good solid years and then He takes me home, that's all I want. I think I posted this question hoping someone could share some good news and I could live off of that hope, someone in 60s living on sertraline but found their condition a bit better in old age, perhaps the brain stopped firing so much after a lifetime of misfires. I cannot tell you the number of times I wish I would just sleep and never wake up again because I am too weak and too tired of the pain. I had gone thru these too many times I now consider staying on it at 100mg for the next 20 yrs without getting off. I have never had the guts to do ERP or CBT because I fear it might worsen my condition, and I am afraid that if I stay on z full time it might no longer work one day, so I lower my dosage or get off, and then the attack hits me. I am pure O when I am in the throes of it. Each time I go thru it I feel like I am going insane and losing my mind. I am okay now, think on my way to recovery, God willing, but I just can't imagine going thru this again. ![]() But I had been on and off z for past 20 yrs and I am just exhausted. I was put on Zoloft when it was still the brand name and now I am on sertraline. I got on med in last year of high school, and had somehow managed to survive about 8 to 9 attacks for the past 20 yrs without killing myself. I am in my early 40s and I have been living with OCD and depression since I was a kid. ![]() ![]() Oh my, sorry to hear that you've been managing all these illnesses. ![]()
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