RE: /Tom Tracey

[Guest guest]

"I am actually on Zoloft which I think in Australia is called Sertraline (whatever that is). Is this any of the drugs that you feel confidently would help me and my little problem."

I am not or Tom, but I do have a 2 year past experience with Zoloft. I starting taking it for pain caused by depression. I had muscle aches (for a year) so bad that they tested for me for every kind of muscle disease and ruled them all out. My doc told me I was depressed and it was triggering it. I was in a very abusive marriage and of course he knew all about it. I told my doc for like 3 months that I knew I was depressed but in my situation if I was not depressed about it then he could worry. Well, he nagged me about taking Zoloft till I finally gave up and started taking it just to get him off my back. Within a week, I was waking up in the morning feeling like getting out of bed, my aches were going away and the clarity in my thinking, I can only relate to as if the sun were burning off the fog in my brain. Within 3 months of taking Zoloft I felt mentally strong enough to leave that abusive marriage and my medical problems were almost nil. My doc told me that I was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and that without medication I would only expect to get worse. For those out there that think I am against anti-depressants, I can only say, you do not know me. I think that they are fantastic drugs and used correctly they can mean the difference between life and death (physically and emotionally). My son also took Zoloft. He is supposed to still be taking it but says he can not afford to buy it. But that is another story lol. He is prescribed Zoloft to help him with a compulsion disorder that is related to a malfunction due to seizure activity when he was younger. As long as he is taking his medication, he thinks clearly and can rationalize a situation. He was one of the statistics that the P in the DPT vaccine caused. It caused him to have seizures. He had grand mal seizures till he was about 5 and suffered petit mal seizures all throughout his whole life. It used to piss me off when one of his teachers would tell me that my son just day dreams in class and I would ask her if she ever read his records. LOL But I must stop this tangent now.

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