The worst thing to be without........hope Hi Susan, I haven't been on in awhile, zoloft was wonderful until I was diagonised with epilesy, however looking back I can now honestly say that I can contribute alot of my confusion to the zoloft. i am now on tegatrol, 200mg, xanaz as needed. As scared as I get with the thought of going out I have started to venture out without taking the xanax. I have come to the conclusion that you must take some control over your anxiety, your epilesy/seizure disorder/what ever lable you end up with. When I get bousts of insomia,I leave the bedroom, couch, and I start something boring, within a couple of hours I am able to sleep a couple of hours. I have decided that I am going to accept this and make the best of a bad situation. I am tired of doctors, medications and family dictacting my life. I haven't worked in 4 yrs and that is my main focus now, i am going for another eval to see how much futher i have come since my intial brain injury, although the tegatrol is helping my siezures, [so far 3 wks seizure free}, I have noticed slight leg tremours and twiching, along with confusion when I e-mail or write, I am currently trying to locate an optomotrist who works with the pts visual program. I am constanly trying to educate myself and trying extremly hard to get seizure free. I want my independence back, I want as much of me back as I can possiably get. In your first seizure you become invisable, dependent, and lok to your doctor for everything, I still have down days but i have more up days now, i have also notice weight gain with the tegatrol, I was scared to get out to walk butI am doing it, I carry ID, cell phone at all times. My husband and I get into because he is afraid of the "what if's". His concerns are logical yet at the same time I am suffocated by them all, I cannot life in fear of the "what if's" anymore. I have some good advice Susan, make sure your shrink, nuerologist and primary are all on the same page with your med's, mine weren't and that's how I got into the problems with zoloft. I was on many med's for the past year and a half. I had allergic reactions to so many med's, I am also allergic to sulpha so the list was futher diminished, my eeg's always read normal, but I have learned that is normal, I have scar tissue on my brain from my injury, I tend to do many things in reverse, you learn to compansate for the deficets, eventually you come to terms, eventually you heal emotionally. Good luck Susan.