Zoloft

Anybody know if this is available in the UK?  Several of my British friends say they've never heard of it, but perhaps they're leading happy, non-bi-polar lives. 

I'll consult my BNF in a sec

I've checked and it's not there under Zoloft


Sentraline is though it's the same thing.

Look for  Lustral

Excellent, I'll make a note of that, thanks, and bring several months of meds as well until I can find a GP and get on the list and do all of that stuff.

It is here... i think it's marketed as Lustral.
I was prescribed it... took it for less than a week and put it in the bin.
It didnt agree with me, and i didnt think i needed it anyway!   I reckon my GP was just lazy and saw an easy way out!   

A lot of GPs can be like that, take the easy way out.  But for some of us, it is quite literally a life-saver.  I've been diagnosed bi-polar (formerly manic depressive) since I was 15, which means I've been through 40 years now of "new improved" happy drugs and the Zoloft has been the best of the lot.

My mother takes it for anxiety disorder and she is very happy with it.  Dosage is so very important though - apparently it comes in a variety of dosage levels.

~Liza

Most definitely, it's a matter of making adjustments until you get it right.  And if you suffer from severe anxiety and/or depression, it's also a matter of finding out which drug does work for you too.

I believe it's actually 'sertraline' instead of 'sentraline'.  (Just been through this w/the gp!)

I'm happy to come across this. I've been on meds for depression since I was 15 and Zoloft has been my savior the last 3 years of that time. So I was worried about whether they had it there or not.

xoxo
Monika

Lustral saved my a*rse twice w/my PND.

Zoloft = Sertraline = Lustral (the brand name here)  all the same thing.

Dosage *is* important, as is how you are started on it.  When my doctor in Dubai prescribed it for me, he had me start on a half-dose, I think, over the course of 2 weeks or so, working up to the dose I was intended to take.  He warned me that it would likely make me queasy at first, which is one reason why he had me get on it slowly;  but he also told me that would go away, which it did. 

Before I left Dubai, I asked my doctor to write up a letter for me, attesting to what medicines I was on, dosages and such.  This proved very helpful when I did see a doctor here, as that helped with the continuation of all my meds.    Zoloft, I learned, is called Sertaline or Lustral here.

I've since changed meds, but for a time, the Zoloft/Lustral helped quite a bit.