...I feel like I am the bearer of bad news many times, although I am looking for answers and do try and offer help where I can: my new family doctor did not believe I was on Zoloft for 15 to 20 years , along with Clonazepam/Rivotril/Klonopin same things I think: anyway, since he left town I have found "proof"...years ago we didnt get copies of tests or doctor's file but I do now, thing is I now have too much!

anyway , may I respectfully suggest , as you have been on Zoloft for so long , that you also check with your optometrist? I could "cut and past" but there is plenty of info about it on Internet: saying that Zoloft "MAY" lead to narrow angle closure Glaucoma - which is what was diagnosed with, and I have no proof it was the Zoloft but its there in black and white that it is a possibility.

I think maybe third time I have said it on here (apologies) but feel so strongly about it: when having yearly eye exam to ask for eye pressure to be taken (its painless and fast) and also have a "field of vision" test which is also short and easy where you look into a darkened box and click a button when you see a little light....they are checking peripheral vision, and I was told by the Specialist (top of department) that the field of vision test is super important in diagnoses of Glaucoma ... even my youngest adult daughter, her optometrist doesn't do this and "should."

Not negating the success of anti-depressants, and my other daughter also has been on Zoloft 20 years , but they have different side effects on different people/short term or long ter. This "specialist" also was asked by my Pharmacist if I could take Wellbutrin and the Specialist wrote back NO - not until I had an Iridotomy laser to eyes, which I did few years later. But, please, not tyrying to frighten you, but its because I ALREADY HAD NARROW ANGLE GLAUCOMA yet doctors were still prescribing eye pressure raising medications, saying, oh its OK... it isn't OK and I still have to be wary. I think if I was younger and could afford a lawyer.... well, I am not and I cant.... I might have pursued. I lived with the stress of not even being able to take Steroid nose drops, anti depressants, even some mundane meds just because they raise eye pressure once I was advise my vision was at risk, and then my family wonders why I was anxious for so long. However, some people can take just about any meds and no side effects: how fortunate they are! J.

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