Lustral

I have a history of depression and am also diagnosed with what is known as a borderline personality. It is stable but the depression keeps on reoccurring. The past twelve months have been horrendous for me. My father was dying from lung cancer, I was in the final year of my honours degree, money was tight (isn’t it always?!), Shane broke his back, Tiny (my beloved cat) died and then my father-in-law was in ITU post routine surgery. All in all, a bit of a rough year! I was experiencing drastic change in appetite with weight gain. My insomnia was returning. I became manic in my actions, but experienced a loss of pleasure and/or interest in favoured ...  Read the complete review

I have been on Sertraline or Lustral since November 1999. As a 20 something I would never have thought that depression would affect me. As a 30 something I have gone through many stressful events in my life since my 20's. How different life can be from one decade to another! Marriage, Husband diagnosed with heart condition Moving house x3, Infertility, Miscarriage, Family bereavement threatened miscarriage, severe pre-eclampsia - son with ADHD, miscarriage unplanned pregnancy. My depression became evident after the birth of my first child- Postnatal Depression or PND but was complicated by the ...  Read the complete review

My GP prescribed me 'Lustral' (also marketed as 'Sertraline' and 'Besitran' in UK - 'Zoloft' in USA), after trying a couple of other antidepressants for major depression. Lustral (Sertraline hydrochloride) is an anti-depressant drug that works specifically on the neuro-transmitter, serotonin. Serotonin levels in the brain are linked to mood, and depression can be caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain that usually takes the form of low levels of serotonin. Serotonin is responsible for transporting messages across the neurons in the brain, and when there is a deficiency of this chemical, this process is disrupted, and it ...  Read the complete review

I have recently been prescribed the drug Lustral and I have found it most beneficial to me so I thought that I would share my story with you. I am not saying that this drug will work for everyone as what works for one person does not necessarily work for another. My own experience began in January 2000, when I was working for Walsall MBC as the accountant for Education Services. The department, which is effectively the Local Education Authority, had been the subject of an Ofsted inspection. I guess those of you in the teaching profession have just crossed yourselves! The report was ‘damning’ and voiced a lot of criticisms in the way that the LEA was ...  Read the complete review

This is a fairly difficult opinion for me to write, but I want to do it, to maybe help other new Mums out there who are suffering Post Natal Depression and are faced with difficult decision like I was. When I had my son, I felt on top of the world. I was surprised how good I felt, because after I had my daughter six years earlier, I felt very depressed very quickly. But this time felt different and I was very relieved. Unfortunately it was short lived! Three months later I realised I had sunk into a depression. I was crying all the time, felt I couldn’t cope and was even having feelings of ending it all. I kept it to myself because I ...  Read the complete review