Zoloft - what side-effects did you experience?

When I had a reaction to Zoloft I was told to stop taking it immediately and they scheduled me an appointment to see the Dr in the am. I had a different type of reaction though. Zoloft made my skin itch really bad.

I have recently started taking Zoloft ( Generic ) about 10 days ago and started at 25mg for 7 days then went up to 50mg but right away i started having side effects, nausia, dry mouth, Insomnia, loss of appetite, so i told my doctor and he told me to keep taking the 25mg for now i hope this will be ok. i also am scared of taking drugs and feeling foggy, sleepy, jittery, but i have to try something and its nice to know im not alone. good luck and god bless

I found that Zoloft really sends me up into the rafters! It's really got a manic inducing effect on me, which is really bad, I have shcizzo-effective disorder. This is a combination of being severely Bi-Polar, and mood fluctuations, with Paranoid Scizzephrenia with lack of sleep will cause a Psychotic Episode. I have had four major episodes with total break from reality, found out of my home naked, and had to be put in restraints! Zoloft started very soon to cause Manic states and caused the fear that I would not ever get to sleep if it kept increasing. If I cross a 72 hour threshold without sleep, i will be Psychotic. I think Zoloft is seriously damaging to the sex functions of normal achievement of orgasms. I stopped it for good!

I am currently on 100 mg of Zoloft and I have lost 19lbs in 35 days... I have more frequent bowel movements, I don't get hungry and when I do I get full fast... I sweat like a hog, have lil memory gaps, like I lose my lighter 3xs a week... If your scared or irritated you should talk to your doctor because I was having those effects on celexa and let me just say it didn't work out, my doctor wanted to keep me on it but I had a lil meltdown and the psych hospitals dr took me off it.. :) hope it helps at least a lil!

I have severe PTSD as a 100% service-connected trauma injury veteran. The process for a multitude of drug therapies over many years, for me, has been trial & re-try until "your dose & meds" are balanced for you. Does take patience & persistence to get there but so well worth the journey! 25mg of Zoloft is below most therapeutic levels. Your anxiety is better served with other
meds and must be balanced with behavioral (not analysis) therapy to reduce the cause & effect of body/mind/spirit balance. Zoloft is not my anxiety med! I have taken Klonepin for years with no addication issues or prescription changes but it has saved my life, literally. I have appreciated the foundation these meds have given me, like a platform for slow clarity. We still need to learn how we can manage (or leave) our past behind. Best wishes to you. Just my own story,and personal opinions.

Hello, I was on Zoloft 25 mg for about 1 month, then increased to 50 mg for about 3 months until they put me on different medication to treat my other symptoms that were more concerning. This medication worked great for my anxiety. The only thing, like you said, at first when I started it I was scared to take it because I did not know what it was going to do which gave me anxiety. A few weeks into it my anxiety was 100x better. However, when they slowly took me off of it, by the time I was off my anxiety seemed worse than ever. I do not know if this was because of my schizophreniform that was diagnosed while of Zoloft (which is why they took me off) or if it had anything to do with the medication. I also noticed that I was more irritable around the time that I started taking it but that has not stopped since I switched from Zoloft to Resperidone so I do not know if that had anything to do with the medication either. Sorry for not having much information but I hope I helped a little.

Hi anonymous

Yes I did experience some of the same side effects like being irritable, scared and weak but it got better as my body got use to the Zoloft. Compare to other antidepressants I had the least side effects on Zoloft.

I hope you are doing well.
Dream

Hi, 10 years ago I was put on zoloft for anxiety and depression and only took it for three months.
I had severe heart burn that would not go away and I also experienced panic attacks.
I think though every person is affected differently by every medication.

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In response to your question, my husband takes 100 mg of Zoloft for bipolar depression. He has not had these side effects. With your topic of PTSD, PD, SAD,& GAD, don't you think you could just have anxiety just taking a new med? If you are that uncomfortable you should speak with your doctor, but with all your problems I would suggest you give it some time to see if it can help you. It can take time for a med to work right, & usually they start at a lower dose & increase it slowly to get the maximum relief. Good luck...

I am going to be honest with you I was having terrible Panic at the time and I think the very fact that I was on something that I really didn't know much about really scared me, it didn't do anything for my anxiety or my panic, Zoloft was a drug that made me kind of jumpy and jittery, in all fairness to the drug a big part could have been me, I ended up being switched to another combination of Medications a 0.5 mg dose of xanax and Lexapro 10mg. those seemed to work but the one thing that I think is true for everyperson we are all unique and what drug may work for one person may be totally not the drug that works for another person, I think it is a matter of trial and error, I do understand what it feels like to go through anxiety and especially panic, it is a nightmare. I journaled every day I kept records of how each day went then when things weren't going well I could go back and see and sometimes I think it made me realize that things were not as bad as I always thought they were I wish you the very best

I began taking Zoloft at 10 years ago. My MD told me to ignore the side effects for the first couple of weeks. I had some intestinal upset at first but the major side effect was an overwhelming sense of feeling wiped out for a few days. All of my years of hyper active anxiety driven mental and physical life came down heavily.I felt like I couldn't get out of bed. This and the other more overt first reactions to the drug gradually disappeared. The gradual but longer lasting sexual dysfunction has persisted and I'm presently looking for options to correct this, if possible.
Being concerned about "being on something" went on for a number of years in one fashion or another. Thoughts that I was "cheating" and that I "should" or "ought" to do life without the drug were common. These thoughts were rooted in some hypothetical model of behavior with which I used to compare myself and ultimately stopped believing as true for me.
Now, if I could stop believing one thought... hmmmmm
Best wishes

I did!!! I don't know I couldn't stand the bursts of irritability and fear I was changed to Lexapro whatever they give you the one thing you have to do is fight, fight, fight, medications help but they don't stop it all please take care and above all be safe you may need to talk with the doctor