Quote of the motherfuckin’ day, right there.

As it happens, I agree with you on probiotics, natural gut flora, etc., and that is what I am working on for my own intestinal issues. But the case is also that yes, it takes a while longer — and for some people, it can take much, much longer. What to do in the meantime? IBS is — as I gather you know quite well — a painful condition. If Zoloft helped her in the interim (and I would suspect that her gut etc. began recovering when it did), then I see no reason to condemn that. Yes, in principle, gut flora first, etc. But in my experience, long term treatment often doesn’t take into account the pain of the interim between the start of medication (whatever form that medication takes) and the desired result, and in my reading of Miz H’s comment, Zoloft filled that gap.

I’m glad you’re safe now.

Zoloft made me extremely ill in numerous ways but I would never mess with the decision you made…..it’s not at all the same as what Miz H was talking about.

I wish you the best.

“People don’t want to completely change their lifestyle and stop eating. … This lets them indulge again.”

Apparently the secret to becoming thin is to stop eating. Entirely. Eating is only a necessary biological function for the thin. For us fatties, it’s an indulgence we can’t resist because, you know, fatties and our lack of willpower and all.

Zoloft does not do that….it changes your body in ways not understood by science.

As for the reconstituted indigestible food? I’m wondering if I could just find a way to bottle my irritable bowl syndrome and sell it. Same thing, ya know.

(quick sad story–I go my first IBS attack at 23 and my dr said it was from eating too much fat. I told him all I’d eaten the day it happened was a salad. His response? “Well, there’s fat in dressing. You need to cut out ALL fat.” I tried and quickly developed hypoglycemia that I struggle with today. And the IBS? My rock star RNP fixed the illness that plagued four generations of my mother’s family in two weeks with Zoloft.)