verveHas anyone taking zoloft experienced muscle and body aches while on the medication? I am an avid exerciser and I have pulled and strained several muscles since starting the meds. I also am in a constant state of overall muscle achey-ness and stiffness. It seem very coincidental to me that it al started after the zoloft and has persisted since.
Zoloft and muscle aches and soreness?
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- 28 Oct 2010 by verve
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- zoloft, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, anxiety and stress
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masso416928 Oct 2010
Hello,
Very stiff (rigid) muscles is a serious side effect, do contact your Doctor immediately and let him / her know what you are experinecing.-
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kathat31 Oct 2010
Hello there. I started taking Zoloft years ago and had what you describe My calve muscles especially and hamstrings were very tight. They did not connect it Zoloft use back then. I just lived with it and thought it was Fibromyalgia. In retrospect it was the Zoloft all along.
I got very ill with Serotonin syndrome last year and the muscle stiffness progressed to spasms and hyper reflexes, and ended with me going into "seizures' of uncontrollable jerking all over my body.
I quit taking Zoloft and the muscles returned to normal. I had also been diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome and that went away too.
Today I am med free and slightly depressed but I would rather deal with the depression than ruin my body and mind with Zoloft.Thats just my opinion, of course.
verve
31 Oct 2010
I am sorry to hear this, but a bit relieved also! =P I am very active and it has been so hard not to be mobile and active. I am only 33!
I agree with you, at this point my anxiety an panic disorder will be a welcome relief from all that the zoloft has done to me! I was on Lexipro for 5 years and it worked wonders for me, until 6 months ago when it seemed to just not be effective any longer. My anxiety returned and my Dr. switched me to zoloft, it has been a grab bag of wackiness since then! I am going off of it currently so that's good.
What is life if not an adventure right? =)
Meanom
2 Dec 2010
Hi,
This is my second year of taking zoloft (seasonally for SAD) and I woke up with my fibro aches. THIS year I suspect it's related to the zoloft - LAST year I made no connection. It didn't take much searching to find this thread. I'm contacting my doctor and starting to back off of it today. I'll TRY to get an update posted here if the pain reverses itself. Thanks for sharing! (zoloft has comments that it's used as a treatment for fibro).
Meanom
2 Dec 2010
To anyone interested in this question, I am off the Zoloft now and the problem is gone. I am still dealing with the aftermath of what ever it did to my muscles (i.e.- pulled groin muscle and strained neck muscle are still healing) but I am no longer feeling the aches and stiffness I was and I haven't injured anything new since I have been off of the Zoloft.
Clearly this is no scientific conclusion, but I am totally convinced that all of it was from the Zoloft.
kathat
3 Dec 2010
I am glad to hear your better! They are finding more and more evidence that medicines that effect your seratonin level also effect your muscles and bowels... I agree it was prob Zoloft.
Wishing you a happy Holiday!!
knrussom22 Aug 2011
You know, I had some general aches and pains before starting this drug, as I was recovering from what my doctor called a virus, but what I believe to be mold exposure sickness. Either way, I had some general aches and pains. After starting this med about 6 weeks ago, I noticed the awful leg cramps. My doctor thinks it's unlikely, but I feel that the zoloft is playing a part. I have cut my dose down to 12.5 and would like to stop it altogether. Would you mind telling me how much you were taking and how long it took before you felt it was out of your system?
verve
27 Aug 2011
Sorry, for the late reply!! This e-mail got shuffled to the bottom of the stack, so to speak and I just remembered it.
Maderr24 Jan 2013
I am having the same symptoms. I too had a minor injury (pulled a muscle in my back) prior to starting the Zoloft and it has never really healed. Lately, I've noticed soreness in my thighs - like you said - it feels like after a workout.
I'm at 150mgs now. I'll talk to my doctor about it when I see her next. But it's good to know that if it gets to be too much I can make it go away by stopping the pills. A shame though because so far Zoloft has been way better than the Effexor I was on before. Ah well they do say that there can be quite a process of discovering the right drug or mix.
Glad to hear you feel better.
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Thanks.
What I am experiencing is more of a mild dull ache. It just feels like I over exercised but, it's felt this way for over a month and a half now.
I am already in the process of going off of the zoloft because of other side effects. It really didn't do good things for me at all! I was more curious at this point. I am hoping as I wean of of the zoloft this pain and achiness will go away.
Thank you for responding!
I am more than happy to help you, and you are welcome.-
Take care
Been on zoloft for several years. The longer I was on it, the more side effects kept showing up. Two of the most troublesome were left arm triceps and bicep muscle aches along with a tendinitis/arthritis like symptom in my elbow. This elbow ache, also in the left arm was 24/7. Occasionally, I would get "sympathy pains" of the same nature in the right arm. The final straw was my blood pressure shooting up rather suddenly. My BP is normal at 130/80 and always has been... give or take a few points.
Finally I quit and slowly phased it out. I was taking 50mg and eased back weekly. The elbow ache eased up and disappeared (after 2 years of 24/7) within 2 days. The high blood pressure eased off and went back to the normal range within 4-5 days. The muscle appears to be the last to go, of all symptoms... it's been 6 weeks now and they are easing up and will hopefully be gone in another week.
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vfinn- Thanks for your comment. I am learning more and more that these meds effect us in so many ways! The zoloft was not good for me at all and I am off of it now. It seems like a lot of the anti-anxiety meds effect my muscles and cause soreness and pain. I am on effexor now and it has a similar effect on me, it also has helped my anxiety and panic too. So for now I ice and take advil, and deal with the pain because it's SO much better than anxiety!