ZOLOFT Reviews (SERTRALINE HYDROCHLORIDE)

Average Rating: 3.3 (1667 Ratings)

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ZOLOFT  (SERTRALINE HYDROCHLORIDE):  Sertraline is used to treat depression, panic attacks, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, social anxiety disorder (social phobia), and a severe form of premenstrual syndrome (premenstrual dysphoric disorder). This medication may improve your mood, sleep, appetite, and energy level and may help restore your interest in daily living. It may decrease fear, anxiety, unwanted thoughts, and the number of panic attacks. It may also reduce the urge to perform repeated tasks (compulsions such as hand-washing, counting, and checking) that interfere with daily living. Sertraline is known as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). It works by helping to restore the balance of a certain natural substance (serotonin) in the brain.   FDA Approval Date: 1991-12-30 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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 3  Severe Depression Migraines; absolutely NO appetite; no sex drive; hard time falling asleep, yet tired all day. My migraines were tapering off until I started taking Zoloft. This is why I had to discontinue use of this medication. I literally had to make myself eat because I was never really hungry at all. Sex drive completely went away and was extremely frustrating. This medication was alright, but the side effects got in the way of my life too much. F 21 10 months
75 mg 1X day
6/20/2010
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 4  Obsessive Compulsive Disorder I started on 200mg/day. Effective for OCD also eliminated anxiety. Had brain zaps and Restless Leg syndrome that affected the whole body causing a constant need to flex and move muscles. Had Muscle pain also, diagnosed as Fibromyalgia, I suspect that the muscle pain was a zoloft side effect. Decreased to 25mg for the past 5 years. Less effective for OCD, some obsessive thoughts break through but can be tolerated. Anxiety is back but mild enough to ignore. Side effects much better. Restless leg syndrome only occurs at night, and not every night. I can sit quietly and knit for long periods of time. No brain Zaps, muscle pain much less. 25mg gives me a tolerable balance of treatment and side effects. It's been impossible for me to stop this drug. I can decrease it slowly but when I get down to half of a 25mg pill I can't seem to get lower. I've tried shaving off tiny bits of the pill over 2 week intervals but my body seems hyper sensitive to the decreases. I get a recurrence of OCD and anxiety, with the addition of anger, depression paranoia and irrational thinking that make me impossible to live with. The symptoms are worse than they ever were before I ever took Zoloft. Once I decided to simply stop it at the 12mg point and tough it out. I ended up in the hospital-- a psychotic episode. Worse than anything I ever had before Zoloft. F 60 18 years
25 mg 1X day
6/18/2010
 3  Moderate Anxiety and panic attacks Slight dizziness a couple of hours when first taking it, frequently desiring for short rests throughout the day. Slightly harder to orgasm. My doctor gave me 25mg of zoloft to start with because I began having severe anxiety and frequent panic attacks. The 25mg did lessen the encroaching day to day anxiety a bit, but I was still far too anxious for comfort. After a while my dosage was upped to 100mg which has lowered my day to day anxiety by a moderate amount. I have had few side effects, but I have noticed that if i miss a couple of doses I tend to get into crying fits about my anxiety. I still have panic attacks, but they are much less frequent. M 20 4 months
100 MG 1X day
6/16/2010
 1  Anxiety, secondary depression Initial side effects minimal. Horrible withdrawal effects! Acute effects include dizziness, vertigo, panic attacks, severe mood swings,extreme fatigue, crying spells, nausea/anorexia. Long term effects (noticed since trying to wean 5 years ago) include tinnitus, muslce/joint pain, fatigue, cognitive dysfunction including memory loss, headaches, GI issues. I have been on one SSRI or another for almost 20 years for anxiety and depression secondary to anxiety. I am currently on Zoloft and have made 4 attempts at weaning down SLOWLY in the past 5 years. I would seriously caution anybody who has anxiety and/or mild depression to not take SSRI/SNRI's lightly. I do believe there is a place for these types of medication when lifestyle and therapy fail, but as a first line of defense I say NO!!! F 35 7 years
50mg 1X day
6/9/2010
 4  Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Bi-Polar II Not many, slightly reduced libido. It really helped me get through some bad times in my life. I've been taking it every single day (in the AM), for over 15 yrs. No major issues to report. It seems to work well, especially when I first started taking it (takes ~ a few weeks to take effect). M 40 15 years
100mg 1X day
6/6/2010
 3  social anxiety, depression loss of libido, loss of interest, severe withdrawl symptoms Never take this if you are Bi-Polar!!! My doc didnt bother to find out if I was. It worked GREAT for a few yrs.. could speak in public, less moody... then gradually I began to rapid cycle.. mood swingin, that is. Now withdrawls symptoms are muscle spasms, anger, rage, severe depression. Im now trying to find a new psyc to help me get on the right thing for my cyclothymia. Omega 3 are a life saver!!! F 31 8 years
100 mg 1X day
6/3/2010
 2  depression Anger, a desire to do something bad to someone, lash out at other people. This drug made me feel angry like I wanted to hurt someone. I had been going to the local Mental Health Center, they prescribed it, when I started feeling angry I went back to tell them I didn't like the way I was feeling, but they didn't want to hear that. They wanted me to keep taking it, said if I was level, that was what mattered. At the end, they put me with an old doctor who looked 80, all he wanted to talk about was a list of herbal medicines I'd given them at the start as some I'd used. When I tried to talk about the anger, he brushed me off, went back to the glucosamine/chondroitin, Echinacea, St John's Wart, said I should never take anything an MD had not prescribed. I tried to tell him I wasn't taking any of them right then, & that they were sold thru drugstores, he wouldn't listen. I gave up in disgust. I went off Zoloft myself & started feeling better within a week. The anger went away. F 54 5 months
DK 1X day
6/2/2010
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 3  depression Night terrors, brain zaps when quitting it M 50 1 years
50mg 1X day
5/29/2010
 2  anxiety/depression/social phobia body and brain zaps (arms/hands legs/feet torso face and inside mouth) nausia for the first few weeks, severe weight gain, severe bouts of depression, sucidal thoughts and actions. although the zoloft seemed to help the mood swings and made me feel more rational at times the rest of what it did to me was HELL. i was on 50mg a day while i was pregnant after being told there was no other medication i could take during pregnancy and breastfeeding, after having my baby i was severely depressed by the time he was 5 months old. by the time he was 8 months old i ended up in a mental health unit at the hospital where they put my dose up to 100mg for a week then to 150mg after that. 2 months later more severe 'brain/body zaps' to the point where i thought i was going to faint, then suicide attempts. very very low moods and ended up in close observation at the hospital again where they took me off the zoloft cold turkey but told me there are no available appointments with a psyc for 3 months. i now have worse body zaps from withdrawls and am constantly suicidal. my mood swings are extremely unstable and sometimes so violently quick i am considering admitting myself again. i would NOT take zoloft EVER again. F 23 17 months
150mg 1X day
5/29/2010
 5  insomnia, anxiety, depression less food cravings, less manic-like passion for music, entertainment, artwork F 30 1 years
50 mg 1X day
5/21/2010
 4  Panic disorder At first: some diarrhea, bit more anxiety. After 2 months, weakness in limbs. But less anxiety by then. Appetite returned, able to eat, go out in public. I started at 2mgs. Low and slow is the way to do it. Most dr.s want to give you high doses to hurry up and get well. That's not always better. Dangerous, in fact. He wants me to be on 100mgs! But 25mgs made me a bit more anxious and weakness in limbs. I have found my theraputic dose is about 18mgs daily. Now I don't have any side effects, but it was sorta rough the first few months. But I had panic attacks really bad and this has helped a lot actually. It also has helped some with OCD. It helps take the edge off. I take the generic. Haven't had to use my Xanax for awhile except for occasional insomnia. I do get restless legs sometimes as I try to fall asleep. The weakness in limbs is either better or I am used to it. Can't tell. Odd. Overall, this seems to be a good SSRI and would compare it to Lexapro. I have only gained about 3-4 pounds in the past 7 months and that's just because I am more relaxed and my body isn't burning the food up from anxiety. BUT, I know how these meds do to people's weight and I am watching it carefully!! F 40 7.5 months
18 mgs. 1X day
5/19/2010
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 1  anxiety It made me anxious and gave me insomnia, then it stopped woerking F 45 4 years
1X day
5/19/2010
 2  Severe Depression Insomnia, feeling "spacey", difficulty concentrating, weight gain The insomnia was the worst - I did not sleep for about a week. I cut all caffeine from my diet (which had not bothered me in decades) and the sleep improved. I've put on about 5 lbs. I can't focus for very long on anything. I hope I can convince my doctor to switch me to something else that I can afford. M 44 3 weeks
30MG 1X day
5/12/2010
 2  Depression Feeling spacey, anxiety, feeling drugged, paranoia about drug effects (is that a side effect or a me effect?), mild visual disturbances (I wouldn't call them hallucinations - I saw my blinds moving at night when the window was closed, and my ceiling looked farther away than it should). I was only 16 when I took zoloft. I stopped taking it because I felt weird. F 24 2 weeks
50mg 1X day
5/9/2010
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 5  depression none Taking it for years M 64
100 2X day
5/8/2010
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 3  depression only side effects when missed doses - dizziness it helped me get somewhat less bad from the depths of a very bad time of depression, but remained dysthymic. recently have gone off the drug because i'm feeling better due to exercise. i guess my advice is - if you're constantly mildly depressed, exercise may work better than an antidepressant drug. F 32 5 years
200 1X day
5/4/2010
 2  depression lack of feeling in genitals impossible to become aroused F 31 3 years
100mg 1X day
5/2/2010
 2  depression, anxiety, PTSD IBS symptoms, recurring awful upset stomach cramps and diarrhoea also felt desperately depressed after 6 weeks on it I had a rough time on this... dreadful problems with my whole digestive system and often needing to rush to a toilet, on a few occassions I almost didnt make it. The Dr encouraged me to stick it out saying it should ease off in time but it hasnt so she has thankfully agreed to take me off this drug and change me onto fluoxetine... fingers crossed! F 46 10 weeks
50mg 1X day
5/2/2010
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 5  Anxiety disorder & depression Starting dose of 50mg kept me up all night as though I had drunk a pint of coffee but side effect stopped when halved tablet to 25mg ( apparently sub theraputic dose ? ) 25 MGS works well for me with no side effects. Sex drive not much diminished. Not gained any weight and rarely need sleeping meds any more. So far so good ! I think an improvement on FLUOXETINE which I took for ten years until it pooped out. I still have some obsessional anxiety but combined with CBT I think this drug works well even on a very small dose. I'm generally less irritable and impatient and rarely have trouble sleeping as I did with Prozac. I was surprised that the psychiatric believes the dose to be sub-theraputic but long may it last ! M 45 4 months
25mg 1X day
4/25/2010
 5  IBS None I take it for severe IBS because they say the cells in your brain and stomach relate. My stomach is actually been less sensitive. I've also noticed that i'm not in a cloud anymore, though i never had depression, it still made me a little more cheerfull. F 14 4 years
30 1X day
4/25/2010

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