Zoloft

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I have no detectable effects from the 50mg of Zoloft I take once a day. It

has no more effect than a glass of water. But it sure changed my

personality.

Crying was my greatest lability. I got to the point where I would cry when

I would hear the National Anthem, songs in church (particularly Christmas

carols and the Messiah), see a child on TV with a problem - lots and lots of

little things. Telling jokes was completely out of the question - I

couldn't get the punch line out for laughing. I also got short tempered.

Neal drew the line when I made our five year old granddaughter cry over not

getting dessert after dinner. I MADE THE DECISION THAT SHE DIDN'T EAT

ENOUGH! Made a big deal out of it which was totally unlike me. She made me

an appointment with my neuro the next day.

As far as I am concerned, Zoloft is a miracle drug. I believe I'm going to

ask for an increase in dosage. I'm beginning to cry at insignificant things

again.

I'm sorry to hear that you couldn't tolerate the drug you were taking, but

there are several different varieties. Don't give up. Maybe for you a

smaller than normal dose wouldn't generate the " zombies " .

Good luck.

Vaughn

TO VAUGN

> In a message dated 3/5/2003 7:42:45 PM Pacific Standard Time,

> vnhick@... writes:

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> > Developed uncontrollable laughing and crying - Zoloft cured

> > that - which was the only real change over the past five years

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> Vaughn -- do you find that Zoloft " mellows " you out too much?

> Maybe I'm super sensitive to meds, but seems like anything I

> take makes me a zombie. I did participate in an Emotional Lability

> research study by drug manufacturer Avanir at UCSF ALS Research Center.

> I never did find out if I was on a placebo or the real thing but my guess

was

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> it wasn't the active drug because I never felt any different. For

> participating,

> if I wanted, I was given the active drug free for 6 months. Of course,

> I wanted to try it but one of the side affects was headaches and

> boy did I have a headache. I thought the top of my head was

> coming off. I try to stay out of situations where I know it would

> be easy to trigger the emotional lability but sometimes I just

> can't...usually laughing and at the stupidest things...usually things

> little kids would think real funny.

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> Looking forward to meeting you in person at Spring Fling. It's

> a long way from California, but Ronnie made me do it! :-)

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