ZOLOFT Reviews (SERTRALINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.3 (1667 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ZOLOFT with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ZOLOFT | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | depression, anxiety and insomnia | Very few side effects. Some vivid dreams at first and some difficulty achieving orgasm. | Update: After being on 50mg for 8 years, I realized that over the last year or so I drifted back into depression. Went to doc. Upped the dosage to 150mg and I feel wonderful. Anxiety, panic and depression and general apathy is gone. I avoided talking to people and didn't want to leave the house. This happened so slowly and gradually I didn't even notice. Now that I'm back to normal, thanks to zoloft I can see how bad I was. It has literally given me my life back. Give these meds time to work. Start slowly and give them time. | M | 35 | 8 years 150mg 1X day | 8/19/2014 Patient History | 2 | anxieties, I insomnia and slight de | The first 2 days were fine. Thought I found a drug to help me with my anxieties. Day 3 horrible side effects: teeth clenching, sweating, hot flashes, palpations and feeling very uneasy. Had to stop taking it even though doctors wanted me to give it more time. | F | 57 | 5 days 12.5 | 8/12/2014 | 1 | Depression and anxiety. | Zoloft has helped with my depression but it has caused me to have an increase in anxiety and now heart palpitations. I never had palpitations before and I find within 25 minutes after taking the medication the palpitations begin and my anxiety increases no matter what time I take the medication. | F | 52 | 8 months 50mg | 7/30/2014 | 3 | depression | anorgasmia (for about a month), extreme sweating (never went away) | Helped only slightly, not really worth the side effects | M | 28 | 3 months 200mg 1X day | 7/29/2014 | 4 | depression and anger | I am a transgender male and no side effects when i started this pill at age of 13. 3 yrs ago, i took 14 excederin pills just to stop my periods and depression but suddenly i was hospitalized and was in mental hospital. | M | 21 | 9 years 100 mg 1X day | 7/25/2014 | 4 | Severe Depression/Anxiety | Some diarrhea and weight gain. Feel lazier than I probably should. | I may have rated Zoloft before and probably rated it lower, but after taking a medication called Viibryd, I now realize Zoloft does work pretty well. It keeps me from crying like a baby and makes my anger all but disappear. I'm still depressed, but I am not sure that will ever go away. | F | 31 | 1 years 50 MG 1X day | 7/23/2014 | 5 | Depression | I was originally prescribed 25 mg by my psych. I stayed on that dosage for a month and did not see any improvement in my overall mood/outlook or depression. My PCD suggested I increase the dosage to 50mg and then to 75mg (if needed) over the course of a month. Talk about night and day difference! 75mg must have been the sweet spot- I no longer questioned the meaning of life, and began to find beauty in the day-to-day like I had as a child. I am now so happy, and look back on that period with sadness- Thank the Lord I was encouraged by friends and family to seek help through a SSRI's. | Praise God for medacine | F | 29 | 3 years 75mg 1X day | 7/13/2014 | 3 | Depression, Social anxiety disorder | Decreased libido, Frequent nausea, Diarrhea, Animated thoughts, Feelings of elation, Numbing of emotions..not being able to feel sad when it would be normal to do so, a kind of psychotic happiness and emotional detachment from reality | M | 26 | 7 years 200mg | 7/3/2014 | 1 | Anxiety | Severe 24/7 akathisia, severe 24/7 suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, rapid heartbeat, tremor, terror of everything, extreme dysphoria, legs covered in bruises, jaw locking, felt like arms and legs weren't attached to body, inner shaking, inability to function, cognitive impairment, loss of creativity, loss of feelings, loss of everything. Life ruined. | Was put on citalopram & had terrible reaction. Akathisia, suicidal ideation myoclonic jerks, sweats, no sleep, all sorts. Came off that & went on zoloft Got worse. Some citalopram side effects died down but ramped up again on Zoloft. The blackness in my head was unbearable. An intense, buzzing, suicidal feeling all day every day. Couldn't sit or lie comfortably EVER. Rapid heartbeat, sweats, cowering under the duvet, couldn't think, couldn't remember things. Tried to kill myself (never considered this in my life before this dreadful drugs). No happiness at all. Every day a total nightmare. Like being in hell. Came off the drug hoping to improve but then discovered withdrawal syndrome. 3 months on and I still have the original suicidal ideation and Akathisia, inner shaking, tremor etc. in withdrawal I have brain zaps every few seconds, massive crying spells, extreme exhaustion, blurred vision, double vision, difficulty focusing, problems moving my eyes from side to side or circling them, inability to function, loss of everything that made me me, loss of friends, inability to work, living in a horror movie. No relief. I've been off the drug for 3.5 months and nothing has improved. My life is ruined. I was really happy before all of this. I only took the stupid tablets for anxiety. | F | 49 | 3.5 months 50mg 1X day | 6/29/2014 | 3 | Anxiety and depression | Severe nausea, headaches, increased anxiety at 50mg. | I have read a lot of the comments here but since I'm a senior citizen (73), I thought other seniors might be interested in my input. Unfortunately, I have suffered from anxiety for many years. I have tried quite a few SSRI's but the side effects outweighed any benefits. I am leery of the "benzos" but am presently taking .5 mg of Klonopin. My doctor now wants me off of it so I started on 25mg Zoloft. I had very few side effects (some nausea) so after about 3 months he decided to bump it to 50mg. Now I have headaches and have experienced some agitation and added anxiety which I don't need! He then told me to back it off to 37.5mg and see how I do. It may be that I can't take this SSRI either. I think it is more difficult at my age to take these meds. Your body assimilates medication differently when you get older. We'll see what happens but this is definitely not what I hoped for in my "golden years". I'll report back in a few months.... | F | 73 | 3 months 25-50mg 1X day | 6/27/2014 | 2 | panic disorder | Ever since I started this medication..I have been feeling worst. Bad headaches neck pain shpulder pain back pain pins and needles brain zaps chest pain stomach pain alot of gas feeling depressed panic attacks more anxiety more jaw is in pain feeling out of it.. I dont like how Im feelimg I am so close to stopping this medication | F | 26 | 5 days 25mg | 6/15/2014 | 5 | Anxiety/Depression | Generally very mild. Slightly delayed orgasm and some strange dreams. I tend to sleep longer in the morning. | Completely silenced the endless tape loop in my head that kept telling me about all the horrible things that would probably happen. Hasn't changed my personality, but turned me into the person I'm supposed to be. Won't work for everyone, but worked wonders for me! | M | 46 | 4 months 25 1X day | 6/11/2014 | 4 | Depression,anxiety,PTSD, OCD,bipola | Just started taking this. I have improved at 100mg but I'm being bumped to 200mg for OCD and anxiety. I have a little paranoia but feel better about life and see and think of life on a daily basis in a more rational way. My mood has evened out in not as on edge as before. I'm hoping the higher dose will work and I can stop taking my anxiety meds. | F | 34 | 10 days 100mg | 6/9/2014 | 3 | Sleepless, mood swings/depression | Initially headaches, nausea. | I took Zoloft for roughly two years, 50mg -which started at 25mg for first month. There were good points and bad points equally. The drug left me feeling very satisfied on a day to day basis. I took Zoloft right before bed with two glasses of water. I was sometimes happy to nearly manic upon awakening in the AM. I was also taking a very low dosage of Trazodone, which was 25mg, for sleep. Though Zoloft did help with depression, sleep, anxiety, there were severe headaches as well as brain "zaps", both while on the drug and also coming off of it. I try to block it out, but easing off of Zoloft with nothing else to help ease the withdrawal symptoms, was train wreck. Everyone should be aware of that aspect. In the end, 50mg wasn't enough and I was already "worn out" of the initial help it created. I didn't want to up the dosage to 100mg or higher because I was concerned with my lack of motivation and ambitiousness. (Remember, this drug made caused me to be very lax and easy-going, satisfied to an extreme end.) As an artist, I felt less creative and passionate too. | M | 35 | 2 years 50mg 1X day | 6/8/2014 | 5 | depression | See things hallucinations | F | 37 | 1 days | 6/7/2014 | 3 | Anxiety, Depression, etc | I've been experiencing very vivid nightmares, the ones where you're too scared to go to sleep. It has helped with my depression somewhat but my anxiety is still the same. | F | 16 | 3 months 100mg | 6/4/2014 | 3 | Depression/Anxiety | Just started taking it a few days ago. I find that I am constantly clenching my jaw and it feels "funny" when I yawn or smile. I also feel very, very groggy in the mornings and have to force myself out of bed, but once I'm up, the grogginess fades pretty quickly and I actually have energy throughout the day. I have also noticed that my mood has improved and I'm not weepy like before. | So far so good... | F | 32 | 5 days 50 MG 1X day | 6/4/2014 | 2 | Depression | Headaches, dizziness, increased depression, GI problems, insomnia and nightmares, loss of interest in everything. | Stopped taking it for 1 1/2 days, went into withdrawal which was horrible beyond anything that I have ever experienced. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. | M | 65 | 30 days 100mg 1X day | 6/3/2014 | 3 | panic attacks | Mine i get my eyes kinda hurt i get shaky blurry vision i sometimes feel tingly but my doctor said it would make me feel weird i have only been on it for just a little while i aint eating i dont really have emotions anymore i got tension in my neck from getting stressed but besides all that its an ok pill. | M | 16 | 1 days 25 | 6/1/2014 | 2 | Anxiety and Depression | GI Distress, Headaches at base of skull, Lethargy, Blurred Vision, Sleep Disturbances (nightmares), anxiety. | I would NEVER take this medication again. Zoloft withdrawal was one of the worst experiences that I ever had in my life! | M | 65 | 5 weeks 100mg 1X day | 6/1/2014 |