ZOLOFT Reviews (SERTRALINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.3 (1668 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 | already explained before when i rated it a 4 back on the 18th Jan 2007 and said i would report again to update | It has now been 8 weeks and 4 days and it wasn't until yesterday when I recieved its full benefits. I am able to smile, smile, smile and look forward to the present and the future. It has been hell though and so many times I almost stopped taking it but I persisted. I said I would give it 3 months before trying something else and it has been worth it. | F | 30 | 8 weeks | 2/4/2007 | 3 | ANXIETY | Dizziness, Increased anxiety, jaw clenching/aching, numbness on side of face, weird dreams, foggy head, jittery | I feel like part of my face is numb. Doctor did all tests and determined it was anxiety..I am clenching my teeth and didnt realize it until my jaws started hurting, I am much more anxious and have to take an ativan to calm down sometimes, feel like I am coming out of my skin from jittery and nervousness.. | F | 38 | 5 days | 2/4/2007 | 3 | ANXIETY | Dizziness, Increased anxiety, jaw clenching/aching, numbness on side of face, weird dreams, foggy head, jittery | I feel like part of my face is numb. Doctor did all tests and determined it was anxiety..I am clenching my teeth and didnt realize it until my jaws started hurting, I am much more anxious and have to take an ativan to calm down sometimes, feel like I am coming out of my skin from jittery and nervousness.. | F | 38 | 5 days | 2/4/2007 | 5 | social anxiety | The usual. Decrease sexual drive - difficulty with orgasm. Upset stomach. | I am taking 200mg every day. This is like a recreational drug for me. I play classical piano and my concentration has never been better. I play by memory and am ripping through Bach. Another great thing are zoloft dreams - the most varied, complex, spectacular dreams I have had since childhood. Can't even begin to describe. I love this drug. Oh yeah, social anxiety -- no problem there, way less stressed. | M | 44 | 6 months | 2/3/2007 | 5 | panic, anxiety | The first five days I was taking 25 mgs and felt worse, more anxious, nervous, fidgety, head amped up, hated it. So today I dropped to 12.5 mgs and feel so much better, calmer. I'm going to stick with this dose for a while and see what happens | On the first 5 days at 25mgs I had to up the zanax because sooo nervous and shakey and jittery, will see what happens at lower dose | F | 37 | 6 days | 2/1/2007 | 3 | bipolar disorder | attention deficit disorder | worked to alleviate depression, but left me feeling numb | M | 51 | 3 years | 2/1/2007 | 1 | GPs prescription | Spasms that made me jump. | I suffered from undiagnosed hemachromatosis for 3 years that was put down to stress and anxiety. I am uncomfortable with GP prescribing this drug. I believe it should only be prescribed by specialists. | M | 44 | 9 days | 1/29/2007 | 5 | Social Anxiety Disorder/Agoraphobia | None | Zoloft has pretty much given me my life back, I have no complaints what so ever. To be unhappy and AFRAID to be with people, go places, do things, is frustrating. Its impossible to describe the feeling of being afraid of people, and sometimes even being picked on for being so unsociable. I take 250mgs every evening and I feel great. If you have a bad experience, then its not the medication for you. That doesn't mean its bad, or ineffective. And children should NOT use this. I know I started a bit young, but my parents would have the common sense to take me off of them if they were causing a problem. So don't give your kid Zoloft, unless its something severe like mine was. | F | 20 | 3 years | 1/24/2007 | 4 | anxiety, depression, panic | These are side effects that continued throughout treatment with the drug. tiredness, increase in alcohol abuse/depenence (not near as bad as paxil), slightly decreased sexual desire(again not nearly as bad as paxil), somewhat decrease in energy, occasional euphoria | compared to paxil, zoloft reacts much better with me. I've been on and off of zoloft for a lot of years, and it has helped fairly well. However, it seemed to lose effectiveness after a few months. Then i had to increase the dosage (up from 50 mg). This always made me a little bit manicky. Now that i just started back on it, i'm experiencing the usual side effects when starting(tiredness, nausea, constipation, flucuations in mood and appetite, sweating). These subsided for me after about a week previous times i've been on it. It's a good first stab at trying an ssri in my opinion. if you are starting zoloft, start at low dosages and increase only if needed. Less is more. *Note* I am not a medical professional and have no medical training. This information is simply compiled from personal experience and remember that everyone reacts differently to these drugs so you may experience some/all/none ,or have other side effects i didn't mention. | M | 20 | 5 years | 1/24/2007 | 3 | anxiety, mild depression | In the beginning tireness,then loss of libido and inability to climax then weight gain. | It has help improve episodes of anxiety and depression but the loss of sex drive and weight gain is affecting my self image which is creating another set of issues. | F | 50 | 8 months | 1/23/2007 | 4 | depression and mood swings | beginning it I was first on "cloud 9" then I leveled off and life was back to normal. I have gradually incrased dosages and now I take 200mg/day. again I'm depressed and ho-hum not to mention I've gained 20lbs I wholeheartedly blame on the zoloft. I feel great otherwise until I hit this low. Question? is there a higher dosage of zoloft that brings you back to life after 200mg that my doc. isnt telling me, or is it time to quit and change? | On occasion for money reasons i run out of my prescription for zoloft and may go days w/out it. i suffer from upset stomach, headache (always over my lft. eye) terrible highs and lows and hot flashes. is this typical? | F | 31 | 11 days | 1/18/2007 | 4 | severe depression-stress-anxiety | sleeping a lot, low energy, sometimes hungry sometimes not, jaw grinding quite a bit, feeling ok then really down unexpectedly, sometimes not able to sleep until 4am, not much feeling down below, want to express myself and cry but can't, dry mouth sometimes, cigarettes don't taste as good, alchohol cravings sometimes, zombie like feeling but this improved on taking med at night. | 6 weeks now and today i am starting 100mg dose, previously 50. Generally feeling better but will comment again in due course. There is light at the end of the tunnel. | F | 30 | 6 weeks | 1/17/2007 | 4 | depression, social anxiety, PTSD | Nausea, drowsiness, jaw clenching, headaches at first, symptoms got worse as i moved up to 150mg | I thought i was crazy for thinking that the jaw clenching was from the Zoloft, but thank you to those of you who shared your symptoms. Zoloft has helped me so much, I was ready to Leave my sophmore year of college because i was having so much anxiety and crying and sleeping all the time, but i started on Zoloft before second semester and now I'm doing better and i'm ready to stay at school. | F | 19 | 1 months | 1/17/2007 | 3 | panic attack depression | no labido, loss of appitite, muscles are tense, insomnia, if i sleep, i sleep in the day for breif periods | i dont know if this is the right drug for me, but i have only been on it five days. so far these side effects are intollorable. My panic attackss are down, but i still take adivan for that | M | 27 | 5 days | 1/16/2007 | 2 | Depression/Bipolar II | Jaw clencing and teeth grinding. Eventually, a sensation that my teeth were foreign objects in my mouth, that needed to be grinded or ripped away. | The clenching and grinding of my teeth began after about a week of zoloft. After I began to feel my teeth were foreign objects and couldn't stop grinding them and pulling at them, my psychiatrist had me stop taking it. Up to that point it had eased a severe depression by making me more alert, and allowing me to focus on one or two things almost to the point of being obsessive about them. I also got up early (6 AM) and went to bed early. I wasn't suicidal, but felt a bit disconnected to any emotions, good or bad. So the antidepressant effect wasn't ideal, but it was a relief, at the time. Please Note: I was prescribed this drug by a psychiatrist who thought I was suffering more from Depression than Bipolar Disorder II. Turns out, she was wrong. Inaccurate diagnosis might explain why the drug had an undesirable effect on me. | F | 32 | 2 weeks | 1/16/2007 | 2 | socil anxiety, OCD, depression | zero sex drive, initial rapid weight loss, emotionally detached | I took Zoloft for nearly three years on multiple dosages. It seemed to curb the social anxiety at first. It did nothing for the OCD or the low-grade depression. After two years I became increasingly closer to becoming agoraphobic, never wanting to leave the house or talk to people outside of family or work. The initially benefits disappeared, and I have recently switched to Wellbutrin. | F | 30 | 3 years | 1/13/2007 | 5 | Major Depressive Disorder | Initially it caused dizziness but it went away in 2 weeks (I know 2 weeks seems like forever, but its worth it.) I took it for 10 years and gain about 10 pounds in that time, including having 2 kids. I did have sexual side effects, namely difficulty with organism and suppressed libido - HOWEVER, I didn't even notice for 3 years because I was too depressed for too long in my life to even think about sex. Zoloft helped me at least want to live long enough to have sex. Lower doses had less negative effect on libido, higher doses destroyed libido. No other side effects for me. | Eventually it was the sexual side effects that led me to seek a new medication for my MDD...which led to a new diagnosis...I'd been a misdiagnosed Bipolar all that time (another story). Then a DUMB DOCTOR ramped me up on 300 mg of Zoloft (which even the manufacturer does not including in proper dosing levels) and it spiked a horrid manic episode. I take Wellbutrin for depression now along with 2 meds for bipolar. HOWEVER, I am VERY GRATEFUL to Zoloft. It is a great "first try" medication in my opinion. I know people who just take low doses for PMS or just for 6 months for PPD. If I'd been taking Bipolar meds or other depression meds all those 10 years, I may not have had such easy pregnancies, healthy babies or be alive through many a depressed night of "cutting". | F | 32 | 10 years | 1/11/2007 | 4 | PANIC ATTACKS- FATIGUE | some sleep disturbances which I counteract with remeron | Stop panic attacks cold and got my energy back. Thank you Zoloft | M | 37 | 2 weeks | 1/9/2007 | 3 | anxiety | none | M | 30 | 45 days | 1/5/2007 | 4 | Generalized Anxiety/PTSD | Sleepy first week, night sweats, decreased appetite, tremor, awesome dreams, a touch of paranoia, dizziness if not taken at the "right" time. | After taking this for two months I am pretty happy with it. The night sweats are disturbing - I wake up totally soaked, however the dreams are fantastic. The tremor is bad for my laboratory work. I also really have a hard time getting up in the morning - I would prefer to sleep all morning, which is a new thing. Everything else has gone away or decreased in intensity. I like the decreased appetite. I have seen a large benefit from this drug and am happy to be taking it. Some of the side effects have made me consider switching to a different SSRI, but so far I am staying where I am. | F | 27 | 2 months | 1/3/2007 |