Welcome back, Sitke!! You have been missed! M-i-m

Many of us were very concerned Sitke....so relieved to see your name

Zoloft was a complete nightmare.

The 2st Neuro I had tried to prescribe me with an antidepressant for the severe and ongoing headache I had for months on end... when I protested he told me he didn't even have to tell me that the medication was an antidepressant and that I should take it. (I fired him...)

I promised my Dad that if we could find a Neuro who would actually listen to me then I would try an anti-depressant if they wanted me to.

The 2nd Neuro really listened to me and she wanted me to try Zoloft. I took it for less than 2 weeks, maybe even less than that. It made me worse and worse - she halved the dose and I experienced the most horrifying hallucinations that night! She took me completely off of them and I was fine. Later she ordered a spinal tap which took care of the headache. I believe that she needed that information in order to move onto the next treatment plan but I sincerely wish I didn't have to live through that - I was totally terrified.

Anyway, eventually I was referred to a Psychiatrist who told me he thought I would be fine and that he wouldn't prescribe me with any meds until I had neuropsychological testing completed. (The HMO denied every referral for me to get neuropsych testing.) He told me that tbi patients are VERY SENSITIVE to all medications and that it's really tricky prescribing them/us with anything - and he told me that my Neuro should have known that in a very critical tone after I told him about my experience with the Zoloft.

Luckily, I'm feeling oodles better now that I have the hormonal treatments.

But when I get especially tired, like I am this week, I am really difficult to be around. The HVAC where I work hasn't been working all year - and I've been complaining about it all year. And then suddenly I was doing REALLY WELL and then the HVAC took a dump and I worked in a 90 degree building with humidity and I've been suffering a gnarly setback since then. I've been VERY ANGRY because I've suspected that the HVAC where I work has been delaying my overall recovery and I've basically been told some pretty gnarly things by middle management about it (like I'd "better stop complaining or it will never get fixed" and that "no one follows OSHA regulations" and that one of the plans to rectify the situation was to move my office to another building and make me walk to the one I work in every day up a hill and questioning my credibility of whether the building was actually hot or not...and that upper management put me in that building/office on purpose knowing full well that the HVAC didn't work) so I've been especially bitter and unfun to be around... anywho, it turns out that upper management didn't even know about it and they are now fixing it. What a bunch of jerks I work with, right?

Sorry.... I guess I went off on a tangent.

Be careful with the Zoloft.

I'm sorry EsthersDoll- don't know why I just saw your reply. I'm still on Zoloft and really dislike it. Or maybe it's the idea of being on meds I hate. Slowly coming to terms that this is my reality now.

Hope you are doing well.

if you have a pcp your psychologist can recommend scripts to your pcp and they can call it in