Sertraline and the elderly
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Many thanks for everyone's posts which have given me the strength to carry on with my prescription of sertraline. My GP prescribed it several months ago for anxiety and depression but I backed down after three days of feeling unsure of its effects. However I couldn't carry on with the feelings and emotions I was continually going through, so I started my course and I am now in my 6th week. It has been a difficult journey with lots of "lows". I had hoped that by now I would be feeling so much better and pray that I wilI wake up from the nightmare of overthinking, dark thoughts, worry, anxiety and depression which will have lifted. I have been an anxious person all my life but since February 2020 I have had more than my share of stress and worry. Having had my bloods checked by a haematologist I was on a course of iron tablets for a diagnosis of mild iron deficiency anaemia. However around this time last year I was sent for a colonoscopy which revealed a flat lesion and inflammation. A biopsy came back clear. However the bottom line is that I had major abdominal surgery on January 26th 2021 which because of adhesiolysis I now have a colostomy bag. The surgeon also performed anappendectomy and a hysterectomy. I am coping with being an ostomate since I had a colostomy 15 years ago which was reversed a year later. This time it is permanent. I am now 77years old and I just want to live whatever time I have left feeling joy in my life again and to stop overthinking and being anxious all the time. Best wishes to everyone on this forum.
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