...Re: OT - Does anybody have their child taking Zoloft for OCD/anxiety

[Guest guest]

Gretchen,

Have you done any viral titers. Have you checked into PANDAS. OCD is a good

sign of viral infections. Also there is some substantial research that

indicate infectious diseases are the cause of psychiatric problems including

OCD (Strep is indicated), bi polar and even schizopherenia (toxoplasmosis

history was found in a study by Dr E. Fuller Torey). Perhaps it would be good

to see if you could find out what is wrong and how to treat it once and for

all.

Also to see if 5HTP is going to help your daughter, you may want to do a

plasma Amino Acid test to see if she has tryptophan deficiency, hight glutamic

acid and high glutamate can be lowered by GABA .

Good Luck, Haleh

--- Gretchen <k12userfor2@...> wrote:

> Hi ,

>

> You mentioned that you tried 5HTP and didn't see the results that

> you've seen with Zoloft for your son, but I wonder if the

> combination of that and GABA would have helped...

>

> My dd has a great disposition in life, thank goodness, but has a

> hard time dealing with changes in routine like: going on vacation,

> shopping for new clothes, trying a new sport, changing anything in

> our home, doesn't like food touching with other food, etc... She

> also gets overly hyperactive around 2 or more children and yet when

> she's separated from them, she calms right down and is fine (not

> sure what that is about....maybe it's part of that " changes in

> routine " thing). She still needs one-on-one supervision when around

> other kids, to help guide her into appropriate behavior (she's

> turning 9 in a few days). I'm hoping that the GABA/5HTP combination

> will help with all of these issues. If not, Zoloft will be our next

> trial. Time will tell....

>

> Thanks for your reply,

>

> Gretchen

>

>

>

> >

> > My son's been taking Zoloft since he was 5 and it definitely,

> > definitely helped. He would get this really tense awful

> disposition

> > where he would basically walk around irritable and picking verbal

> > fights with people, complaining about everything in a biting tone.

> He

> > has reduced his dose over the years especially after dealing with

> the

> > chronic head pain. We tried 5HTP a while back but it wasn't as

> > effective as the Zoloft...at all. The thing is often a person has

> > disordered serotonin. It might run high or low. Zolfot increases

> > serotonin, so if serotonin runs low, like it apparently does in my

> > family, Zoloft is great. If it runs high, Zoloft would make the

> > situation worse. I've often wondered why Paxil is given as a first

> > choice by some doctors because it does seem to have the most side-

> > effects and hardest to stop.

> >

> > .

> >

> >

> > > My daughter takes Zoloft for anxiety and OCD, and it has been a

> > huge help. We tried a variety of things before finally giving

> Zoloft

> > a try. For her it has helped with anxiety issues and to some

> degree

> > with OCD.

> > > I wasn't crazy about medications, but if it helps I'm willing to

> > let it.

> > >

> > >

> > >

[Guest guest]

Hi to the mome asking the zoloft question (sorry but if I click to

see your name I will lose my place,lol)

My daughter was prescribed 25 mg zoloft for anxiety / OCD by her

neurologist back in 2002. By 2005 her dosage had been increased to

150 mg. In 2005 he mentioned wanting to monitor her liver for long

term affects the drug may have on her. That was the day I decided to

take her off of zoloft. I was terrified because I didn't know what to

expect in weaning her off of it. The doctors were not opposed to my

taking her off the drug (or at least they never said that they were)

but they were not terribly supportive either. I now know it was the

best thing I ever did. In our situation I do not believe my daughter

ever should have been on zoloft. The anxiety she was experiencing was

appropriately proportioned to the experiences she was having. She was

being mainstreamed for the first time. But I understood her being dx

with anxiety disorder but OCD? She never displayed any symptoms that

I recognized as OCD. That is not until she started taking the zoloft.

The neuro told me I had to be making some mistake, that there would

either be no effect atall or an improvement. So I believed him,

ignored my instoncts and kept her on it.

I don't know if this will help atall , just wanted to share in the

hopes that it may in some way.

Margie

> >

> > My son's been taking Zoloft since he was 5 and it definitely,

> > definitely helped. He would get this really tense awful

> disposition

> > where he would basically walk around irritable and picking verbal

> > fights with people, complaining about everything in a biting

tone.

> He

> > has reduced his dose over the years especially after dealing with

> the

> > chronic head pain. We tried 5HTP a while back but it wasn't as

> > effective as the Zoloft...at all. The thing is often a person has

> > disordered serotonin. It might run high or low. Zolfot increases

> > serotonin, so if serotonin runs low, like it apparently does in

my

> > family, Zoloft is great. If it runs high, Zoloft would make the

> > situation worse. I've often wondered why Paxil is given as a

first

> > choice by some doctors because it does seem to have the most side-

> > effects and hardest to stop.

> >

> > .

> >

> >

> > > My daughter takes Zoloft for anxiety and OCD, and it has been a

> > huge help. We tried a variety of things before finally giving

> Zoloft

> > a try. For her it has helped with anxiety issues and to some

> degree

> > with OCD.

> > > I wasn't crazy about medications, but if it helps I'm willing

to

> > let it.

> > >

> > >

> > >