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 |
| 1 | Postpartum OCD and depression | soon after take it, knocked out feeling, extreme yawning, foggy brain, and absolutely no sleep at 3 consecutive nights even with sleep aid!Took doctors to figure out to give me Trazodone to sleep. | NEVER ever try this, go and get Prozac!I had it for 1.5 years with no side effect at all. | F | 31 | 4 days | 8/25/2009 | 5 | Anxiety and Depression | The only side effect I have noticed is it makes me sleepy, so I take it at night and sleep well. I do have occassional, mild headaches but nothing worth stoping it over, that's why there's Motrin. | Zoloft has changed my life. Saved my life. I went from taking Xanax .5mg 3-4 times a day, to not taking it at all and still not having anxiety attacks. It took a good 4 weeks, but I am so calm, comparatively speaking. | F | 34 | 6 weeks | 8/20/2009 | 3 | Extreme anxiety | In the beginning, teeth grinding. Sleepy all the time. Daily headaches, severe weight gain. Feel numb/no feelings. Still have all side effects except the teeth grinding. | Ive been on Zoloft for about 2 yrs. Im now at 150mg. The side effects are very bothersome. My anxiety is completly gone. Im afraid to quit taking this med for fear of the anxiety returning. I would rather feel numb/no emotions than have the severe anxiety I felt before. | F | 47 | 2 years | 8/17/2009 | 4 | Panic, anxiety, depression | At first nausea,diareah,shakiness, sleeplessness, brain zaps, muscle twitches, jaw tightness, vivid/scary dreams,loss of sex drive | The side effects were like living a second version of my personal hell. I stuck with it, and now I am realizing what a sad, pathetic, lonley, afraid, antisocial, hermit I used to be. Now people enjoy being around me. I am actually funny! I can make friends. I miss orgasms, but I like the person I am now a lot better than I was. I think I will stay on it for a while! | F | 38 | 1 years | 8/13/2009 | 4 | anxiety/ depression | The first couple weeks i felt nausea, headache, diareha. I felt a little dopey....Started taking it at night and the dopey feeling went away. | I'm grateful for zoloft! It really has helped with social anxiety and my depression is better-not totally gone but better. I noticed right away that my thinking was clearer. It took about 1.5 months to really feel anxiety/depression lessen. I take 75mg. Started 1 week@25 then, 50mg for 1 month then up to 75mg. Less side effects if you slowly up your dose. Also, ive lost weight!! 20 lbs in 3 mo. I feel like taking better care of myself now! Its great. I'm finally living life! Good luck to you..give it a chance, it could change your life! | F | 36 | 3.5 months | 8/9/2009 | 4 | anxiety and depression | Decreased libido and insomnia | M | 44 | 9 years | 8/2/2009 | 1 | Depression/Anxiety | Total loss of libido, horrific nightmares, insomnia, weight fluctuations, irritability/angry all the time. | I was on Zoloft for about 4 months, and after the first 2 weeks I had absolutely no sex drive. After the first 3 weeks, the nightmares began, and became increasingly gorey and horrific, to the point I would become paranoid. I began sleeping in odd patterns, for only a few hours at a time. My weight would increase, then decrease, then increase again. When I went off of it, it was because I had become so angry and irritable I couldn't be around anyone because I would become violent at nothing. | M | 24 | 4 months | 7/27/2009 | 2 | Depression, anxiety | Weight gain, hair loss, headaches, insomnia. Bad side effects when weaned off like brain zaps, anxiety. | My depression was eleviated but I still wasn't myself, even when I went up to 200 mg. The side effects got to be too much (headaches everyday, problems sleeping, gained 10 pounds, would lose a handful of hair everyday) and I weaned myself off of it, only to experience strange seizure-like zaps in my brain that would last for just a second but were very distressing. | F | 37 | 1 years | 7/26/2009 | 4 | Severe-depression | nausea when not taken with food or water,diarrhea,severe insomnia | Before I was put on zoloft I was at my wits end, no joke I was terrible. But once I started taking it I improved greatly extremely fast. The only negative things I have to say about it is that when I miss a dose its almost like Im PMSing to the max. Also the side-effects were most unpleasant considering I started taking it during the school year. | F | 16 | 7 months | 7/22/2009 | 3 | depression | sweating, dry mouth, increased anxiety | worked wonderfully in the beginning...took away all the depression I was experiencing for three months...after 2 years, I built up a tolerance and had to increase it from 50 mg to 100 mg...the depression was creeping back again...I found nutritional supplements to deal with the depression...I am still on 25mg of Zoloft b/c it is IMPOSSIBLE to come off of...withdrawal is HORRIBLE!!!! It does nothing for the depression anymore but my body is too used to it to stop it | F | 37 | 13 years | 7/21/2009 | 4 | depression | exacerbated anxiety, loss of appetite, some insomnia | its better then the other ssri's and ssnri's that i have been on....i don't know why, i guess everyone is different. but i know its better than (for me) lexapro,remron, serezone,prozac, effexor, wellbutrin, paxil, celexa, cymbalta,and luvox. zoloft despite its side effects really seems to have the greatest effect on a certain seretonin receptor site....i believe the 5ht site, not sure. but withdrawl i have yet to experience. but i will tell u one thing effexor has the worst, celexa and wellbutrin is that much better. so zoloft in my opinion, even though its an older ssri is among the best. | M | 33 | 4 months | 7/19/2009 | 1 | severe depression | stoned feeling; hands shaking so bad couldnt hold a pencil; extreme crash | I took it for about a week and felt soo good like stoned out of my mind. But then I crashed so hard I was trying to scrape the skin off my back with my nails. I was suicidal and my parent's tried to admit me to a hospital. | F | 15 | 1 weeks | 7/19/2009 | 3 | Depression/Anger Issues | The first couple of days I noticed slight dizziness within an hour or so of taking it but it resolved itself. Dry mouth also for the first few days. Insomnia was horrid the first 2-3 days, not sleeping but 2-3 hours each night. Other than that, nothing - until week 3 when I all of the sudden experienced moderate nausea/vomiting and pretty good dizziness constantly. Also, about a 5 lb. weight loss in the 3 weeks I took it. Decreased appetite. | I'm disappointed. I debated and debated whether to try an anti-depressant and finally decided to go with Zoloft because I am nursing my 1 year old. I decided at this point the potential risk to my daughter was outweighed by my extreme mood swings/impatience/anger in general towards my kids. I started low, 25 mg's the first 7 days, then increased to 50. The first couple of days were rough with the insomnia but when that cleared up I felt fine, like I wasn't taking anything. It wasn't until the 3rd week that I started to feel as though I had the flu. I went to the dr. and he said no way could it be the Zoloft, said I had the stomach flu. Well, this lasted for 7 full days and I stay home with my 3 small children, it wasn't working! Today, I decided enough and did not take it. So far, no "withdrawal" effects but I'll be darned if I feel great. No nausea/dizziness like I experienced yesterday and the 7 days prior. I really wanted this to work and I do think it mellowed me out a bit, I wasn't so on edge, so jumpy and moody and irritable. I just can't go on indefinitely feeling like I was going to fall over or vomit all day. | F | 30 | 30 days | 7/17/2009 | 1 | anxiety | My 7 year old son took zoloft to help with anxiety. It made him exremely bouncy, violent and aggressive. He became delusional and his thoughts were scarey-violent. He also was more paranoid. | After more research and doc appts. we've learned there's a high chance my son has early onset bipolar disorder. Drugs like Zoloft and other SSRI's (ex. Prozac) will cause bipolar-like children to become aggressive, bouncy, violent and affect their thoughts. Please be careful giving this to your child if you suspect they have more of a "mood-based" disorder. If they haven't been diagnosed with a mood disorder but placed on a drug like Zoloft and respond similarly to how my son did, please call your doc right away and discuss the possibility of a mood disorder. My son no longer takes any SSRI meds and is back to his normal self. We found that a mood stabilizer works best! | M | 7 | 4 months | 7/16/2009 | 4 | Post Partum Depression, Panic Disor | Weight Gain while taking it, Complete hell to come off of; brain zaps, anger, agitation, dizziness, crying. | I was in a very bad place with my PPD and almost two days later I was miraculously better and able to function. Actually, Ive probably never felt so good. I did notice it caused weight gain and thought I would be okay to wean myself off...that is when the trouble began, it was hell. Now I am reconsidering it because I am in such a depression without it, but I know it must be addictive. I think Im going to try Lexapro. | F | 29 | 6 months | 7/14/2009 | 1 | Social anxiety. Depression. | Insomnia. Erectile dysfunction. Loss of libido. | Utterly useless. | M | 34 | 1 months | 7/14/2009 | 4 | OCD, dysthymia, anxiety | Only on day two. I had nausea and diarrhea. Nausea is already getting better (I was nauseous prior to starting) and bowls are better. A little bit spacey but that already seems to be passing. | So far so good. I'm sure the side-effects will fade over time. Very happy to have started this. I have moderate OCD with mild depression. No overt compulsions, I just annoy myself to death in my head. The Zoloft has had an almost instant effect on me. Already I want to start doing things again that I haven't done for years, but I am a little drowsy from the effects which will fade. I feel like I can start to get on with my life again. I will post again as I progress, just search the page for TWD, I'll add that to the next post. | M | 30 | 2 days | 7/11/2009 | 4 | Depression | Nausea if I dont take it with food, dry mouth, tiredness and bad dreams | I have tried many antidepressents and the only one that seems to work is zoloft. I have tried to go off antidepressants 3-4 times and always came back to zoloft. | F | 35 | 16 years | 7/1/2009 | 2 | anxiety disorder | nausea,diarrhea,headache,muscle pain,tingling,pins and needle feelings,abdominal pain, gas,dry mouth,altered sense of taste | F | 74 | 10 weeks | 7/1/2009 | 5 | PTSD | weight gain and decreased libido. Otherwise it has been life-changing. | Zoloft has been life-changing! I was put on it for PTSD and came on it after trying a number of therapies (EMDR, CBT) and meds (Ativan, Wellbutrin etc.).Now I am mostly symptom-free. | 36 | 1.5 years | 6/30/2009 |