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 |
| 3 | Depression | cons - brain zaps, vivid nightmares, dizziness, weight loss, memory loss, terrible early side effect of self-harmful thoughts, & slight insomnia. pros - improved mood greatly. I mean I guess it did what it was supposed to???? | F | 17 | 6 months 150 mg | 5/31/2014 | 4 | ptsd, depression | Light drowsiness and occasionally diarrhea | M | 27 | 8 years 200 mg | 5/20/2014 | 5 | Anxiety/Panic Attacks/Agoraphobia | No side effects | F | 24 | 4 months 100mg | 5/15/2014 | 2 | PTSD | Instantaneous psychosis | F | 33 | 3 days 10g | 5/14/2014 | 3 | Anxiety | Could not increase to 75 mg without feeling an increase in my level of anxiety. 50 mg had no impact on my anxiety but improved my mood. | F | 16 | 1 years 50 mg | 5/9/2014 | 5 | severe anxiety, panic attacks | Start up effects were horrible. Nausea, dry mouth, indigestion, heightened nausea, diarreah, constipation, hallucinations, paranoia. These effects went away after about 2 weeks and I could see a difference. I started to get up and dressed. I wasn't so scared of everything I started to venture outside and smile again. I do have some side effects that I've learnt to live with. I have occasional twitching, I grind my teeth really bad in my sleep so I wake up with a sore jaw and feeling like I'm exhausted and my night sweats are sometimes really bad. But I've come to terms with these just to feel a little normal. You really have to stick to it the first couple of weeks it can be hard but for me it saved my life and made me feel as normal as can possibly be. I have tried to come off but I couldn't deal with the side effects. Everyone is different but give it a chance to work before giving up :) | F | 25 | 1 years 100mgs | 5/8/2014 | 2 | depression, anxiety | insomnia, fatigue, weakness, listlessness, confusion | helped a little for my general depression, anxiety was still pretty bad. no overall improvement. | F | 19 | 1 years 50 1X day | 5/6/2014 | 5 | Anxiety | The only side effect I've noticed is the inability to ejaculate during orgasm. | Zoloft has made me a new person. I initially was prescribed it for generalized anxiety disorder, but realized after it started taking effect that I was actually suffering from depression. The first thing I noticed was that I was not getting angry anymore at little things that would set me off into a near-rage. I am calmer, think more clearly, and am not bothered by things in life that used to make me blow up. Another effect of the medication is that I no longer get sad or cry. It feels a bit weird to constantly be in a good mood, but I'll take that over how I used to be. | M | 53 | 3 months 50 1X day | 4/25/2014 | 5 | Panic disorder/Anxiety | Nausea at first, sleepiness. Weight gain over the past 2 years. | F | 33 | 2 years 150mg | 4/23/2014 | 1 | Panic attacks | Blurred Vision, dizzy, horrific night sweats, trembling, detached feeling, | I started on 25 mg for one week, and then icreased to 50mg. It was a horrible experience. Although I took it at night, I felt so dizzy in the day that I was afraid to drive. I had no energy, just wanted to sit, which is totally the opposite of who I am. Never laughed, cried, no emotions. My eyes hurt, my vision was blurred. I would wake up in the night drenched in sweat. In the morning I was exhausted and would have diarrhea. My mouth was dry and I had no appetite. Just went off it yesterday. The doctor wanted me to continue with a different drug but I want NO part of it. I would think long and hard before starting this drug. | F | 65 | 18 days 50mg 1X day | 4/22/2014 | 1 | Depression | Last entry: I have been off Zoloft for more than ten years. The anxiety (inability to sit or lay still) and insomnia I started to experience shortly after starting the medication never went away; every doctor I complained about the side-effects to insisted Zoloft should treat that and would try to up to my dosage, as far as 200 MG. After a good doctor finally took me off citing the possibility of seizure if I continued to take it, it took years, and my near being suicidal and checking myself into the hospital several times before a suitable treatment was found. I had doctors actually recommend I start with Zoloft again. I was appalled. When I moved to Spain in '07, I went to see a physician and explained what my symptoms were and the first thing she asked, knowing I was American, was if I had ever taken an SSRI. I said yes, how much, which one, for how long and when. She said nothing more and started me on a benzodiazapine regimen that I'm still on to this day, six years later. I take alprazolam, 2 MG three times a day now. Otherwise the feeling of nails on a chalkboard, and general anxiety and the insomnia come back almost immediately. | M | 39 | 100 MG 1X day | 4/10/2014 Patient History | 4 | Anxiety, Depression | None. Although, if I don't take it for a couple days, I get extremely depressed and suicidal. | F | 16 | 4 years | 3/3/2014 | 5 | Depression, Anxiety | Sedating at first, restlessness, headache, | I have been on and off Zoloft for the past 13 years. It has done wonders for me. I take Abilify as well and both of these drugs have saved my life. I know there are lots of negative review out there, but just remember that everyone has a different body chemistry. What happens to one person won't necessarily happen to the next. I was scared to start taking Abilify due to being nervous about side effects. I'm doing great, you never know until you try it. If you can get past the first few weeks (unless you have severe side effects) the effects will pass and you will feel better. | F | 33 | 3 weeks 150 1X day | 3/1/2014 | 4 | Very rare tremors | M | 32 | 8 months 25 mg | 2/9/2014 | 3 | Depression | The worst side effect I can think to mention is difficulty and many times the inability to achieve orgasm. I did not even realize the effects Zoloft was having on my sex life until I stopped taking it. | Zoloft definitely helped me with my depression, but greatly diminished my sex life. | M | 25 | 6 years 200 MG 1X day | 1/11/2014 | 1 | Hypochondria, Panic Disorder | Absolutely horrible for me. Brought on all kinds of new issues which I had never experienced such as major depression, and really obsessive unwanted thoughts that were really distressing. I was just given permission today to stop taking it, as it seriously made me feel like I was going crazy. I didn't like it at all, but that's just my experience. | F | 14 | 3 weeks 20mg | 1/11/2014 | 5 | Bipolar w/ Severe Depression | I've taken it so long-- 14 yrs--- that today I cannot name any undesirable side-effects. In the very first years, there was difficulty in achieving orgasm, but no ED at all. I remember the first four days on the drug were weird: I felt jittery and a little elated, rather like the opening to a hallucinogenic drug. But that subsided very soon. As everyone knows, you have to give the drug about a month before you decide you might cycle off it; people who decide after a week that "it's not for them" are really not using the drug correctly. I will say that withdrawal from Zoloft (or any SSRI) is a very unpleasant experience: severe mental confusion, and objects in your peripheral vision seem to dance about, wheel and lurch unexpectedly (not unlike the "tracers" of LSD). You seem to "miss" seconds of time. Crying bouts resume at the slightest provocation (Ask my family about the time I started crying over the breakfast tabl | I tell people that Zoloft gives me a Floor. A floor under my feet beneath which I shall not sink. This means that I'll still have good days and bad, but I know i have the security of an emotional "floor" beneath my feet. Before this medicine, I could sink...and sink... and sink into depression, seemingly without end. The biggest gift of Zoloft, I'd say, is that it allows me to *think*; those of us severely depressed know that, even worse than the dysthymia, is the inability to read printed matter... you'll read and re-read the same paragraph over and over again! Now I can think and read, and that's everything. They say the effects of Zoloft are smooth and constant, based on blood levels, but damned if I don't find myself feeling a little more cheerful/alert every day, an hour after popping my pills. | M | 50 | 14 years 200mg 1X day | 1/6/2014 | 4 | PMDD Severe Depression | Initially went cycling like a yo-yo with mild mania and depression. Had to go up gradually from 12.5 mg every two weeks until I reached 200 mg in a YEAR. It was stimulating and I was hyper for a few months. | This is the only SSRI that didn't give me gastric side effects. It felt stimulating and made me hyper for quite a while. However, having severe depression, I had no choice but to stick with it Slow titration helped a lot. Didn't have depression under control until I added Lithium 300 mg as adjunct. Now depression-free for 5 years or so. To avoid poop-out I have a day off a week. | F | 49 | 6 years 200 mg 1X day | 12/17/2013 | 1 | PTSD | Loss of emotion, extremely vivid dreams that made me talk very clearly in my sleep, describing my dream out loud. Severe nausea that progressively got worse the longer I took the drug. Got so bad I was vomiting 3-4 times a day, and could not keep my food down. Quit cold turkey in 2003. I had "brain zaps" every 10 minutes or so for the first month. The "zaps" got less frequent over time, and after about a year, the zaps were 99% gone, although for about 4 years after stopping Zoloft, I would still get the occasional zap about once every 6-7 months. Have not had any zaps for about 3 years now. | I took Zoloft starting in 1997 and was on 150 mg./day until April, 2006 when I quit cold-turkey. I tried other antidepressants to no avail, so I tried Zoloft again last year, but could only take 5 months of it before the nausea got too bad to bear anymore. | M | 50 | 6 years 150 1X day | 12/10/2013 Patient History | 3 | M | 55 | 1X day | 11/20/2013 |