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, Anxiety | I feel drunk and stoned, gives me severe diahria, neck pain, extremely tired, limbs keep falling asleep. | Well, I am definitly more calm, less depression, lowered anxiety. | M | 18 | 2 days | 4/20/2006 | 5 | panic attacks/phobias/depression | Exhaustion and mood swings (all within the first month or so, but all subsided) | Zoloft really has helped me. DO NOT EVER EVER STOP TAKING THIS MEDICINE COLD TURKEY!!!!!! Doing this will be painful and pointless. After the initial side effects wear off, zoloft helps to somewhat balance your emotions. I was able to think begin thinking rationally after taking it. I highly recommed this medicine, but as with all other psychiatric prescriptions, make sure that a GOOD psychiatrist is carefully monitoring you and your condition. Sometimes the dosage needs to be adjusted, which isn't too difficult. Overall, I will most likely be on this medicine and others for the rest of my life...and Zoloft is the one I trust the most. | F | 19 | 5 years | 4/17/2006 | 4 | depression | experience morning grogginess, but otherwise, good - not depressed anymore | F | 37 | 3 months | 4/14/2006 | 3 | anxiety | sharp pains in head, weight gain, (10lbs). Other than that the med worked well with my anxiety and panic attacks. Although the weight gain was bothersome as the headpains, i came off the med and switched to another. | F | 31 | 6 months | 4/12/2006 | 4 | Panic Attacks | Apathy and indifference, lethargic, sleepy, slight memory loss, twitching under left eye. | I went on Zoloft for six weeks for severe "panic attacks," so they call them. What a deceiving label. Basically the symptoms were: feeling "surreal" and scared, adrenaline releases felt in my chest several times during the day, fear of a brain tumor and so on. This was when I decided to get on Zoloft, mainly because I had fear I was "terminally ill." The symptoms came on suddenly one day during a court trial (I am an attorney), and did not subside for weeks, so I got on Zoloft as a last resort. IT WORKED 100% - but...be on top of the dose at all times. I was supposed to take 50 mg daily, but the dose was way too high for me and made me feel horrible. I remained on 25 mg and kept a daily journal. Reading it now, I see that after a week the attacks started to subside several hours per day, and by week 3 they were entirely gone. I thought, "good, that's over. Time to quit now." I stopped at week 6, and no withdrawal whatsoever, but the pa | M | 45 | 8 weeks | 4/7/2006 | 3 | Depression | Decreased sex drive and arousal, delayed orgasm. Otherwise none. | I was taking this for depression for almost 2 years. It worked well in the beginning minus the sexual side effects. After a while it petered out. I have since been diagnosed with bipolar II and found that this is a common thing with antidepressants and that disorder. | F | 26 | 2 years | 4/4/2006 | 4 | Depression & Anxiety | I've only been on Zoloft for 6 days and during this period the first 2 days were hell. I felt like a space cadet, had head aches, and no apeitite. To date I am finding it very hard to ejaculate - getting an erection is no problem at all :) | Zoloft so far is good but I have not felt the full effects as yet. I seem to be experiencing a lot of head aches and find it very hard to concentrate. I will post another message in a few weeks to update everyone on progress. | M | 21 | 6 days | 4/3/2006 | 5 | Anxiety, Depression, mild OCD | Originally the #1 side effect was that it caused me to sleep all the time, I wrote an earlier blog here a few months back asking for help as I couldn't take the proper dossage without being tired all the time and sleeping. Sexual dysfunction also but was able to counter act that with Wellbutrin. Sometimes dry mouth. | In a twist of fate I have been able to go from being tied all the time no matter how little of a dossage I took to being able to take the proper amount prescribed for my conditon (anywhere between 75 mg. and 125 mg. per day depending on my level of anxiety but am trying to regulate it so that I take the same amount each day) and now not experienceing any sleepiness at all, if anything, when taking higher dossages, can sometimes have a bit of insomnia. It took a very long time for my body to acclimate to being able to take the proper amount though. | M | 38 | 5 years | 4/2/2006 | 5 | severe depression | No bad side effects for me,..I read where it may affect your sexual appetite, well, believe it or not, it increased mine! | I was at the point of going off the deep end! Someone could even jokingly say something out of the way to me & I was in tears. I've been depressed before but never this far gone,,after a few days of taking this medicine, I could tell a difference and I'm very thankful I lisitened to my doctor and started taking them. | F | 47 | 2 years | 4/2/2006 | 5 | depression and panic attacks | A LOT.. But only for the first 6 weeks. See, the higher the dose that you need, the longer the side effects last because you have to build yourself up to each dose by doing 10-14 days per 25mg dose until you build up to what you need. Me, I needed 100mg per day so it took me almost 7 weeks to build up to. And, the other precautionary measures I should mention are 1) The first 1-2 weeks you start you are going to be worse off mentally than you were before and you should stay with a trusted person (family member, friend) for those couple weeks of adjustment because you will feel more anxious and potentially suicidal to begin with. 2) You CANNOT go off this medication cold turkey. Just as you built yourself up, you also have to take yourself down over a matter of weeks. This is clearly written on the label but I, at first, didn't believe it until I tried going off of it all at once. You get these weird electronic-type "flashes" in your head and are dizzy, sleepy, and havi | LOVE IT!!!!! Changed my life. I used to only be happy when I drank and then would sink into a deep depression. I also started to have panic attacks when I drove and could not even leave my bedroom for 3 months. Once I got on Zoloft, I now wake up in the morning and am HAPPY! That never happened for me before in my life! I am also able to focus much better, to achieve my goals, and to stop being paranoid and socia-phobic. Overall, it has made me the person I always knew I was but that my fears held me back from being. Some people believe that these medications "change you" or make you somebody completely different. That is the EXACT OPPOSITE of their effect. They bring out the natural, viable you and help you to logically eliminate your irrational and emotional hang-ups. I always knew I was this person inside and now I feel like every other "normal" person - those who don't have these neurochemical biases. I am me. The real me. The best me that I can b | F | 27 | 3 years | 3/31/2006 | 5 | SAD, OCD, Depression | insomnia, low libido, drowsiness, dry mouth | This drug changed my life completely. I didn't even know what Social Anxiety Disorder was until a few months ago, only to find out that I had a pretty serious case of it beginning as a teenager. All these years I had just assumed that by nature I was anti-social and extremely shy, only to find out that millions of people suffer from SAD. I'm one of those believers who thinks that everyone should take Zoloft. It's not only controlling my anxiety and depression but it's controlling anger, and my thought process in general. Before Zoloft I was easily confused, now I can think clearly and control my thoughts. | M | 27 | 2 months | 3/31/2006 | 4 | Depression & Anxiety | Night sweats (really annoying), loose stool (no big deal), difficulty reaching orgasm when i first when on, then it returned to normal for years, but in the last 6 months orgasm is very elusive again. Took a few years to figure out right time of day to take it to feel ok, evenings work for me (always been 50mg). When i miss a day i feel very spaced out, thick, groggy, sad. | Zoloft totally changed my life for the better. The difference was like night and day with feeling like i had a purpose in the world and motivation and joy. in the last 6 months I feel like Zoloft has stopped working...i have great social anxiety again, lots of self-doubt, have not felt joy in a very long time. even though zoloft worked well for so long i have wanted to go off for years due to trendyness/social stigma and belief that i should be able to handle this w/o meds but have had much trouble with the withdrawal the 2 times i tried. now that i am feeling bad again i wonder if it would be a good time to try going off because the drop might be less than if i were feeling great. i never liked the idea of being on zoloft but i can't deny that it worked brilliantly for years. | F | 34 | 6 years | 3/31/2006 | 5 | depression & then Post Partum Dep. | some increased hunger and weight. | After suffering with PPD, Zoloft saved my life. I was suicidal and felt I couldn't go on. I tried 5 meds before going to Zoloft. I can honestly say, I won't be alive today if I didn't take it. I used to take it before I got pregnant, but stopped because I didn't want to take it with the baby. Now, if I get pregnant again there is no way I will stop it. If you are suffering from Post Partum Depression please email me. I know what it's like. | F | 29 | 6 months | 3/24/2006 | 4 | Extreme irritability and depression | Inability to have an orgasm. My sex orgasm felt like my knee. No arousal. Starving all of the time. Appetite did not increase, but hungry 2 hours after eating. Stomach growling 3 hours after eating. Insomnia. Work up around 4:00 a.m. and could not go back to sleep. | Other that the side effects, this is a wonderful drug for me. Have gone down from 100mg. to 25mg. Zoloft immediately calms me. I feel like I can function somewhat normally. Without it I am extremely irritable and depressed. I don't even want to be around myself! | F | 39 | 2 months | 3/24/2006 | 5 | depression | Blurred vision at distances. Insomnia, great sex drive, weight gain. | Overall this drug is great when it comes to sex. I can acheieve a errection and orgasism. I have been taking Zoloft for almost 2 years. Before that I used Paxil and have no sex drive. | M | 32 | 2 years | 3/17/2006 | 5 | Depression and anxiety | Ejaculatory problems, weight gain, dry mouth | I am a long term user of this drug and I believe it has had a very positive effect on me. I was diagnosed with a panic disorder 10 years ago and I have been taking it ever since. I still suffer small bouts of depression but it is managable with this drug. | M | 32 | 10 years | 3/15/2006 | 5 | Social Anxiety, OCD, Depression | insomnia, low sex drive, trouble reaching orgasm, euphoria (not bad at all), agitation, drowsiness | This is a great drug for depression and social anxiety. I feel normal around people for the first time in my life. Before, people always made me nervous, anxious or just uncomfortable in some way. The nice thing about Zoloft is that it feels natural and it doesn't seem like I'm "on" a drug. I feel normal, though I know the drug is working. Considering how my life was before taking Zoloft, the side-effects are well worth it! | M | 27 | 1.5 months | 3/14/2006 | 5 | Depression | weight gain, complete lack of interest in sex, inability to climax | A doctor convinced me to start taking Zoloft in 1997, and it saved my life. I can still remember vividly the day/time when it "kicked in." I took it without problems for 2.5 years, until trying to conceive. Started, reluctantly, taking it again in 2004. Was unpleasantly surprised to steadily and quickly gain weight this time (from 115 to 135 in about 6 months, with no difference in food intake or activity level). Went (back) up to 200 mg/day in October (am convinced I have SAD, too), at which point my sexuality simply evaporated (and it's not much better @ 100mg). Although the doc says that Zoloft isn't "known" for its sexual side effects, I feel like a potted plant. I have an Rx for Wellbutrin-to counteract Z's side effects. I'm a little scared to start taking it, but (a) my boyfriend is losing his patience and (b) my clothes don't fit! | F | 41 | 4 years | 3/13/2006 | 3 | panic | Diahrea | M | 38 | 2 days | 3/13/2006 | 5 | depression and anxiety | low libido, slight insomnia | zoloft has saved my life. i don't know what i would do without it. | F | 19 | 1 years | 3/12/2006 |