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 |
| 5 | Depression, shyness | First 2 months were very difficult. Headaches, upset stomach. Doc dropped dose to 1/4 of normal and went up slowly from there. After 2 months was taking full dose with no side effects. Every few years I've needed to have a increase of 50mg. Currently at 250mg/Day. | Overall the drug gave me my interest in life back as apposed to covering up something. I realized something was happening when started getting interest in outside projects after a few months rather than just working and sleeping. Zoloft has worked well for me. | M | 44 | 8 years | 5/21/2007 | 4 | GAD/Generalized Anx Disorder/Panic | None | It gave me my life back! I felt a difference the first 5 days at 25 mg and then my life got better at 2 weeks. No regrets. My Doctor told me to stay on it as a minimum for 6 months and stay on it or weaned myself of it by taking a pill every other day or half a pill every day and then every other day. And I did it!! at 6 months... no prob! I am still doing great and that was 4 months ago. I exercise fast-paced walks and treadmill to break a sweat. I take a B-complex and multivitamins. No anxiety or panic attacks whatsoever. | F | 46 | 6 days | 5/18/2007 | 3 | | 5/16/2007 | 2 | personality disorder depression ocd | Insomnia no appetite anger mania crying spells anxiety | finding it really hard to cope on this, have to take something to make me sleep, force myself to eat. I havent been on this long was taking 100mg but cut it in half. Please anyone does this go if so when, can you ever sleep, feel so low have to take dizapan to sleep and thats not good long tern please email me thanku | F | 35 | 7 days | 5/14/2007 | 3 | depression, add | binge eating, some suicidal feelings, and some bi polar | I keep eating and eating and i feel hungry and then all a sudden feel stuffed, i have thought of suicide a couple of times but not a lot, and some days i feel really happy and some times i feel really sad or mad when i wake up | M | 13 | 1 years | 5/13/2007 | 3 | Anxiety | sleepy, horrible hot flashes, night sweats, weight gain with inability to loose it after stopping, didn't care about anything, tingling in back/shoulders, sex? what's that? | F | 40 | 6 months | 5/12/2007 | 5 | Panic attacks / rage episodes | When I fist started Zoloft I felt nothing during the 25mg first week. When it was up to 50MG I begin to feels euphoric Like I just smoked a joint or something. That went away after a few days. And I was on 50MG for 4 years until last month they up the dose to 100mg and I feel fine no side effects. | Zoloft has been a life saver for me. I was first put on it in the fall of 2003 because of a panic attack (shortness of breath feeling of drowning). Three years later we found out I did not have a panic attack it was because I had pulmonary hypertension and really needed oxygen. In either case I have always been a control freak and would get enraged very easy. Zoloft has helped me to not sweat the small stuff and keep my cool during a crises. Recently I have had a series of events where I was having melt downs over things I could not control, the doctor up the dose to 100MG. Problem solved. So far so good. | M | 45 | 4 years | 5/11/2007 | 5 | Depression, anxiety | It's been so long I can't remember. | I couldn't live without it. Have had to increase dosage to 150 mg/day. If I went to 200 mg/day I had more anxiety and restlessness. | F | 65 | 12 years | 5/10/2007 | 3 | OCD/Anxiety | Initially, headaches and constantly hungry. Constant diarrhea, that never subsided after 3 months until I quit. Complete lack of sexual desire (as w/all anti-depressants, in my experience). Gained about 7 lbs., but also quit smoking simultaneously, so hard to tell which is the culprit (I exercise 4x/wk) | Started at 25 mg. and was increased to 50 mg. after becoming anxious and exhibiting OCD symptoms froom childhood I'd thought had gone away for good. It DID calm my anxiety a great deal, but my OCD problems remained unchanged. I learned after switching docs I'd need about 200 mg. for this to work, and switched to Effexor XR. | F | 30 | 3 months | 5/9/2007 | 5 | Depression, obsessive worrying | sex drive lowered, weight gain | This drug saved my life. I can live with the few side effects. I take 75mg and it is very effective for me. | F | 48 | 7 years | 5/6/2007 | 5 | Disordered Eating/Anxiety/Depressio | Initially, none!! :) then RLS increased BIG time. 2 years later and having doubled the dosage, unsure... vivid wacky dreams? Yes. accute reaction to missing a day or two? Yes. But I'm still in remission from an eating disorder and a 24/7 sleep cycle! | Began w 50 and felt ZERO change until week 8. Overnight Nirvana! I lost approx 25-30lbs and have stayed there, my skin cleared up, SOOO loved life again and couldn't say enough about it! Over two years...NO purging NO obsessing over my body :)Gradually we've upped to 150 due to unprecedented PMS and intermittant blues. On my own thought "more might be better"- flirting with 150-200 and am now making inquiry w Dr... I think I'm over medicating and duh! I should know better than to self-perscribe, I'm not a Dr. Feel like I've hit a ceiling- and have been noticibly tired. Maybe I need to cut back instead of add more!? :) hope so, life is good! (no longer see my therapist specializing in disordered eating aka my miracle worker- went from weekly meeting to bi-weekly to nadda) | F | 31 | 2 years | 5/3/2007 | 4 | Depression | Weight gain, sexual side effects which diminished after about 1 month, less emotional and more rational, gastrointestinal problems. Increased hunger- my stomach is like a bottomless pit. | In my opinion, Zoloft is great. My sexual side effects went away after 1 month and I feel great overall. I am not "numb" but that may have to do with the fact that I am only taking 50mg per day. I still experience the blues, but I no longer have suicidal thoughts and my depressed episodes last for a few hours rather than a few weeks. | F | 26 | 45 days | 5/3/2007 | 1 | sleep problem | Quite a few years ago, I took Zoloft for a sleep problem. It was great for a while. I slept well. I liked Zoloft! Then I got increasingly horrible arthritic pain (and I was quite young). After a time, I connected it with Zoloft tho drs. then said it could not do that. HA! I found a gal on the internet and we had the exact same thing. Tried going on and off it several times after that; each time it caused great pain, now even with the smallest of doses for briefest of times. It took me a year to return to normal... I'm glad I DID return to normal. BEWARE! | Drs. finally admit Zoloft can cause this. I should add that I have had no luck tolerating any antidepressant... but this is one that really was ruining my body. | F | 50 | 6 months | 5/1/2007 | 1 | Depression | overly happy, loved everyone and everything, wired, could not sleep for more than 5 min. at any time, involuntary foot twitching and teeth chattering, nausea, NO appetite | after taking zoloft for TWO DAYS the teeth chattering was so severe i stopped taking this drug. now, after two days off of it my teeth still chatter slowly and on a much smaller scale, but still involuntary and constantly. despite the side effects (though i am still concerned (hence my visiting this site)) it did rid me of my depression. | F | 17 | 2 days | 4/26/2007 | 1 | anxiety | After two years of being on Zoloft 50mg I deceided that I didn't need it anymore and stopped taking it. I had no problems when I stopped. After two months I began taking it again. I am sorry that I did. I have had the chills and hot flashes. I cannot sleep through the night. I feel like I want to get up and run. I am tired all of the time. After two weeks I have cut the dosage to 25mg and am hoping that this will help wean me off. | F | 39 | 12 days | 4/26/2007 | 2 | depression, anxiety | increased anxiety, nausea, loss of appetite and weight,heartburn, diarrhea, eye twitching, jaw clenching, insomnia, have to take xanax in order to take Zoloft. | I have only been on this for five days, after coming off of Prozac. I'm not sure that I'm going to like this med. Will report if it gets any better. | F | 59 | 5 days | 4/25/2007 | 5 | Major depression, anxiety | Some nausea and dizziness the first couple of days, insomnia, jaw clenching (at first I thought my face hurt from smiling too much LOL). Little bit of dry mouth. Gum helps the dry mouth and jaw clenching. | I haven't been taking Zoloft for very long (4 days), but the depression lifted by the second day. I felt more relaxed, and loved everyone and everything. Two days later, it's equalized a little bit, but the difference is still night and day. It may not work for everyone, but it saved my life. | F | 31 | 4 days | 4/20/2007 | 4 | Depression, anxiety, panic attacks | Mild nausea for the first day or two, no noticeable side effects except a funny taste in my mouth and I have not tried to find out yet if i have sexual side effects. No weight gain but a week wouldnt be enough to find that out yet either. I'll post more when I find out more. | I have been on zoloft for 7 days. I am starting to feel better. My depression is starting to lift, and I feel stable at least. Panic attacks are lessened, still have low level anxiety, hoping this will go away when the full effect of my drug kicks in. But it is much lower then before I started the zoloft. I am also taking clonazepam for the anxiety if it gets to much but Im think Im doing okay. | F | 36 | 7 days | 4/17/2007 | 4 | depression | jittery, can't sleep, no sex drive | It did help me with my depression and suicidal thoughts, but I have gained quite a bit of weight. I have to take an additional medication for anxiety. | F | 27 | 6 years | 4/15/2007 | 4 | Anxiety (esp social/performance) | Loss of appetite. Loss of sex drive. More difficult to orgasm. Orgasm not as good. jaw clenching (so weird, anybody else have this? not grinding, clenching) and not lethargic but def less energized. At first headaches, but subsided. Insomnia sometimes. | It helped. a lot. I was to the point of almost quitting my job and retreating from the world. I feel very "normal" content - like myself, which is a 180 from where I was. It was a very gradual transformation and it has been about 6 weeks but I started to notice the improvement within the first week or so. I almost didn't keep taking it because the side effects were more pronounced at first, esp the headaches and lethargy and insomnia but now, they have lessened - but are still there. and for me, for now, its a price I'm willing to pay in order to be able to live in the present tense and not have panic attacks, constant worry, meltdowns, etc. I don't have these things anymore. I still have some negative thought processes I need to change, but outwardly, I cope soooo much better. It has changed my life and I'm excited to work on ME and my issues while I'm on the meds, and hopefully be able to come off relatively soon. It doesn't feel like you're "on" something. Just f | F | 27 | 6 weeks | 4/14/2007 |