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 |
| 2 | Depression, Anxiety, Mood Disorder | Suicidal, Irritability | This was the first med they put me on when I was recovering from anorexia in 8th grade. The first few days I took it I felt euphoric, but then I just crashed. I became more depressed, started cutting, felt suicidal, and became hostile and irritable. Not a good medication. | F | 20 | 1 months Don't Know 1X day | 12/29/2015 | 3 | Anxiety, Depression | Sexual dysfunction, extreme hunger, carbohydrate cravings, weight gain, insomnia, acid reflux, fatigue, water retention, eating disorder thoughts, spacey thinking | Medicine would stop working and I'd have to up the dose, anything above 25 MG and the side effects start to very badly effect my life. | F | 20 | 8 years 1X day | 12/22/2015 | 5 | OCD | Tiredness Increased appetite | F | 23 | 3 years 50mg | 12/16/2015 | 5 | Depression/Anxiety | Initially I had insomnia. For 3-5 days or so but it was so worth it. | Since my ovarian failure I can't function without it. Within 2 weeks I found relief. It makes me feel like a normal person instead of being constantly tortured by my emotions. Since I am not constantly overwhelmed by pointless unexplained anxiety and depression I am able to think things through and just live. :) | F | 43 | 15 years 100 1X day | 12/11/2015 | 3 | ADHD, Panic disorder, Depression | Insomnia, Irritability, and felt like I was on Speed/Methamphetamine. | Helped alot with my panic attacks during sleep, slight anxiety issues, and my depression. I feel like my adhd has gotten a bit worse, my fidgeting is more often than usual. Although my thinking, thoughts and feelings are more clear and life is more enjoyable to me now than before. | M | 26 | 1 days 50mg | 11/30/2015 | 5 | Depression | Mellow on the first day. Thirsty. No other side effects. Love it so far | After only a few days my crazy busy negative mind has relaxed and I'm feeling more normal than I have in a while. I look forward to a few weeks from now when the zoloft properly kicks in. I take tablet at 8:30 PM. | F | 35 | 6 days 50mg 1X day | 11/29/2015 | 5 | Anxiety, PMDD | Heartburn, gastrointestinal upset, dizzy/lightheaded when standing up too quickly. | After a bad experience with another SSRI, I was hesitant to try zoloft. Started at 25mg for 7 days, then 50 for 7 days. Went up to 75mg for a week and it knocked me out. Doctor advised to go back down to 50mg, and at about the month mark, I noticed that my baseline anxiety level was now manageable. I still have anxious days and some panic attacks but they occur so much less frequently. | F | 29 | 4 months 50mg | 11/28/2015 | 1 | depression | Made me really forgettful, weakness so bad it was a struggle just to comb my hair. My useless former doctor just dismissed my concerns. Also made me extremely angry. | It takes months to get off this poison (which is another thing the useless doctor conveniently didn't tell me). Should be pulled from the market. | F | 35 | 4 months 200mg | 11/28/2015 | 4 | Depression | Myoclonus, anal itching. | I took Zoloft way back in 1996-97 for about a year and a half, first at 50 MG, then 25 MG. It gave me a real boost, I had more energy and was more positive and focused. The myoclonus can be annoying as they affect small muscles all over the body, from the face to the feet. The anal itching was the worst. I actually get that with all SSRI's, not just Zoloft. I guess it has to do with the increased bowel movements. The effects of Zoloft, including the side effects, lasted for many years after I stopped taking it. One positive side effect was also that it cured my premature ejaculation. Otherwise it didn't affect my libido. One potentialy negative side effect of all antidepressants is that you feel a little emotionally detached from your environment. It can help you through bad periods of your life but you may also miss or overlook signs that things around you aren't for the best. Always take these drugs under the supervision of a professional. | M | 25 | 18 months 50 MG 1X day | 11/24/2015 | 5 | anxiety and depression | Lethargy, muscle twitches, and light heartburn. All of which went away in less than a week. | I am impressed with this drug as it is the only drug I have taken for depression and anxiety that actually works. It works wonderfully on the anxiety and helps with the depression. It's a good mood stabilizer. | F | 40 | 5 months 100mg 1X day | 11/13/2015 | 2 | Body Dysmorphic Disorder | Severe fatigue, increased appetite, frequent heart palpitations, increased anxiety, mental cloudiness, decreased memory. | I was given Zoloft as a booster for Wellbutrin since Wellbutrin was helping my binge eating, but none of the depression symptoms that came with Body Dysmorphic Disorder. I understand that FDA has not approved any medications yet for BDD, but this was kind of an experiment to see what would work best with me. Zoloft did not work AT ALL for me. It made my symptoms worse, in fact. I started binge eating again. It basically cancelled out any benefits that Wellbutrin gave me. I had 20-30 heart palpitations a day. I was an anxious wreck. It's strange because I've used Zoloft in the past for Generalized Anxiety Disorder. I was a young child, but my mother said it worked well for me. Oh, well. I started Effexor XR today in hopes that it will be better for me. | F | 17 | 3 months 50 MG 1X day | 10/24/2015 | 3 | depression | 1 days 50 mg | 10/23/2015 | 3 | Depression | Drastic Loss of libido, loss of appetite, weight gain, unstable moods happy for no apparent reason smiling too much in an abnormal way, hours later crying my life away wanting to sleep n never wake up on a daily basis, messed with my normal behaviors, overly lazy, careless | I have always been a clean neat freak, I was taking this for severe depression, it numbed a lot of the feelings I had and I was supposed to be on it for at least 6 months and then see the doctor for either a higher or smaller dose. I finished one prescription and the second one I never finished it. After 3 weeks of taking it I saw myself losing my mind, yes it was helping but it was making me someone I've never been. Being that I'm a writer and in touch with my soul, I self diagnosed myself and as I felt a little better I would skip days and force myself to regain my own emotional strength and when there was days that I couldn't handle the depression that would be when I would take it to calm me down. Then I would force myself to gain strength to keep going without it. It did help in that sense, but that was because I didn't want it to control me and my natural behaviors as it was in the first 3 weeks. I got kicked out of college because of mental trauma and I felt as if it wouldn't go away. Best advise I could give you is if u do take this it will not cure the depression ur in but it will help you cope with it if you take it only when you're feeling as if you can't handle it on your own, it does help. Also be in control don't let the medication control you, as far as libido it does come back so have faith if ur strong willed and in control of the medication it will come back. That goes for anything you take. They do not work miricles. 4 years later I am now 26 and haven't ta | F | 22 | 2 months 25mg | 10/8/2015 | 1 | A couple of panic attacks | Intense electric surge through my body 2-3 hours after each dose, felt like I was on speed or something | STAY AWAY FROM PSYCH DRUGS! I have been off this med for 7 months now and still suffer severe psychological issues, nervous system problems, intense anxiety, depression, anguish, anger, irritability, an electric feeling flowing through my body and brain, dizziness, agoraphobia, etc... ALL OF THIS I did not have before taking this stuff. I only took it for 4 weeks and I feel damaged for life!! | F | 39 | 4 weeks 25mg 1X day | 10/8/2015 | 3 | Anxiety, OCD, depression | Brain fog, headache, blurred vision, migraines, loss of appetite, overheating, diarrhea, cramps | It helps with the anxiety, but I am so tired and foggy, even with a low dose...I also have trouble concentrating. | F | 13 | 4 months 37.5 1X day | 10/3/2015 | 2 | MDD | Although Zoloft indeed helped my depression and social anxiety, the side effects, unfortunately, were and are to this day devastating. I became completely asexual soon after going on this drug, and I never ever, even in my worst depths of depression experienced loss of sexual feelings. | I have post ssri sexual dysfunction that has lasted ever since taking this drug. I quit in 2005. | M | 36 | 5 years 200 1X day | 9/30/2015 | 1 | Depression/Anxiety | Weight gain (even with strict diet and exercise), loss of libido, brain fog, poor memory and concentration (I had to drop out of university), headaches, emotional numbness. In the initial two weeks on the medication I also experienced tingling and numbness in my fingers, toes and lips, as well as brain zaps. | It helped my depression in the sense that it stopped me from feeling anything. I kept persisting with it at the advice of my doctor, being reassured that it was worth it in the long run. But I would not recommend it to anyone. This medication ruined my life. Four months after I stopped taking it my memory, concentration and libido have not fully returned. I'm still struggling with my weight. I still feel numb, yet my anxiety is as bad as ever. Do not take this drug except as a last resort. | M | 25 | 9 months 50MG 1X day | 9/27/2015 | 2 | Anxiety, Stress, Depression | Headache, dry mouth, dizziness, chronic fatigue, increased appetite, stiffed jaw, decreased libido, weight gain, brain fog | Zoloft did help with my anxiety but the side effects were just to much to handle to the point that I would rather live with anxiety than to live with these ugly side effects. the doctor started me at 25mg up to 75mg in two months. The side effects got stronger and stronger as I felt brain fog, chronic fatigue and all those other side effects I mentioned on a daily basis. I would also wake up in the mornings drained out feeling dizzy, making it real hard for me to get ready and go to work. I also gained like 7lb while on zoloft. I believe if i took this drug any longer I would most likely gain 30+lbs real fast. No thank you. Never will i take this crap again. | M | 25 | 2 months 75mg | 9/23/2015 | 1 | panic attacks | I started with zoloft for panic attacks. After stopping it I got OCD, depression, worse panic attacks, anxiety, social anxiety, etc. | It helps for an amount of time, but when you come off it, you will see that it has harmed your brain a lot. I don't understand how this drugs are so overprescribed when they are so dangerous. They are not better than street drugs. I am pretty angry with the system at this moment for what it has done to me. | M | 25 | 1.5 years 50 mg 1X day | 8/17/2015 | 1 | Depression, Anxiety | Insomnia, GI problems | this drug was pretty lame. Helped my OCD minimally, but didn't do much else. After stopping, I had probably the worst experience of my life: SSRI withdrawal. Pure hell. Thank goodness I found another drug called NARDIL, an MAOI which was/is excellent. | M | 36 | 2 years 200 1X day | 8/15/2015 |