Generic Zoloft – Sertraline 50mg

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   JackieJanuary 3, 2011 - 9:33 am #1

   I dont have any idea what the answer to your question is . All I know is that it has made me start thinking.

   Right now I am taking zoloft,paxil and elavil all at once. This is a scarry thought.

   If someone knows you can let me know too, so I can have another good thing to look forward to.

   Thinking of you
   Jackie

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   PolJanuary 3, 2011 - 9:33 am #2

   According to doctors, there aren’t any known
   long-term effects of anti-depressants because they drugs
   haven’t been on the market that long. When you speak of
   long-term effects it usually refers to the use of a single
   maintenance drug for between 5 and 10 years. Few people have
   been on the current generation of a anti-depressant
   that long – at least not long enough to make a fair
   study.
   If the immediate side effects are any clue,
   I’d say the long term effects are probably fairly
   minimal. Because the drug is used up or execreted from the
   body fairly rapidly, that’s probably a good clue that
   there’s not enough lingering around to do too much harm.
   Also, these drugs by their very nature, are as common
   to the body as the very hormones they stimulate in
   the brain. Of course, any upset in hormonal balance
   causes all kinds of discomfort (just ask a pregnant
   woman), which explains many of the side effects of
   anti-depressants, but I don’t think that means they’re deadly on a
   long-term basis. They are probably safer than many high
   blood pressure medications which can cause heart
   ailments and kidney damage. There are however, a few of
   the A/D which should be monitored through serum
   measurements and you should have your blood pressure and liver
   checked regularly. Your doctor should be keeping track of
   this if you are on any of these drugs for any length
   of time.

   I’ve been told I will be on
   anti-depressants the rest of my life. To me, that’s better than
   the alternative of depression and anxiety attacks
   that keep me from functioning. I won’t fear what might
   happen in the future. I guess I’ll cross that bridge if
   I come to it.

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   SamJanuary 3, 2011 - 9:34 am #3

   This is only my opinion but I have been taking
   antidepressants since Prozac came out. I have often thought about
   if one of my daughters was prescribed an
   antidepressant how it would be over my dead body. I think alot
   of medications aside from antidepressants make your
   own body quit working if it has that replacement
   (even a girdle). I just wonder what would have happened
   if my doctor would have waited to see if he would
   have had me go to therapy or something with no meds.
   to at least see if it would have passed (at the time
   I first started on meds. there was a good reason
   for being depressed, I just didn’t realize it). I
   know that everything up to my second month on that
   first med (Prozac) I have clear memory of and vague
   memories since then and there have been several times that
   I stayed off of the meds. altogether for over a
   year (don’t remember that much either). My short term
   memory is worse than ever, I try to learn something new
   at a job and forget it immediately, I study
   something like the side-effects of an antidepressant and
   realize I have looked this up over and over again. My
   brain is mush, the simplest functional ways of living I
   have to relearn (like how to do laundry) everytime I
   move. But once taking it, at least for me I have to
   keep taking it. I get depressed just thinking about
   that other capable, cheerful, ALIVE person I used to
   be.

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