Zoloft has a half-life of about one day. I became completely and utterly paralyzed.

My GP told me to stay on Sertraline but I decided it was messing me up completely and I thought I was going mad.

I was prescribed this on Dec 18 2019 for anxiety. And I certainly had to increase the dosage in order to ever get better. If so how long does this last? Im so sick and have the zaps. Everyone is different.

Zoloft, or sertraline, is an antidepressant in a class known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). You are very inspiring.Hi Monica, just seen your input on steraline.

Outrageous and lazy! I have recently just come off Sertraline after finding out I was pregnant as I didn’t want to take any chances to harm the baby. Insatiable appetite. They wasn’t.

I had to wit my job when I decided to go off of it as my personality had become horrid. The long and short of it is if you feel like these pills aren’t right for you, you should stop. I know, I’ve been there, too. Physiologically I have issues since being at school, being bullied and also through my life people thinking I’m thick.

So far so good. I really don’t know which way to turn. I wish I was as brave enough to do what the rest of you are doing.Hey there.

I know i’ve been depressed for 20+ years but dealt with it via alcohol, etc. My first encounter with psychiatry and the “mental health” system was in the summer of 2008. But they say hope is the last thing to abandon the human being and today I choose to believe this.We live in unfortunate times where shyness, insecurity and life struggles are considered as symptoms or defectiveness that have to be medicated when it is in fact our society and the way psychiatry is practiced today that are defective.

Having withdrawals. I am 11 months free of the antidepressants . And I believed her….. but felt so very angry about this example of the blatant ignorance of GPs ….. of course, I blame Big Pharm and their corrupt marketing practices ….. but, nevertheless, I remain dumb founded as to how intelligent, medically trained professionals can be so completely duped?? Emotionally numb. So, the sertraline has never made me feel right so after being on it for 8 months I decided to get off of it also.

I did a 3 month taper and was careful to level out before dropping dosages. My hair was falling out and my joints ached. Started the second week, pain at the temples that would last a few seconds coming and going throughout the day. It was bad and lasted 3 days. You are right in every which way. I believe the reason the withdrawal has been relatively mild is because, like the last writer, I’ve been taking medical cannabis. As soon as I went from 50mg to 0, which is only 3 nights now and I’m now doing so well. I also had counselling private which didn’t help.

I took the final 25mg pill the second day of the start of the headache, and it made it a hundred times worse. On the flip side wondering if anyone has found non medicinal ways to treat the withdrawal symptoms. Keep in mind I wasn’t consistent with taking it every night like I was told.

I’ve done a lot of research into these and I’m expecting to be like this for at least another 6 month due to length of time I was taking them.

I have been on the trust the Dr rollercoaster of never-ending prescriptions that will fix my problems..only to end up worse bouncing from mental institutions to unemploymemt to finally this time zoloft. My Dr started testing me for lupus and suggested I actually raise my dosage, which I did. I am now 4 weeks into cold turkey. I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind me privately messaging you?

Been lowering it every 3 months by 6.25mg only.

Went off Sertraline last September and still not feeling well. They will ruin your life. But I’m trying not to. Def having the witdrawl sun. Can you imagine them telling a heroine addict that the withdrawals were a sign they needed to start back taking heroine.

I don’t want to even leave the house. how are you getting on now since stopping Sertraline cold turkey? My gp changed me to 15mg of Mirtazapine right after I stopped taking Sertraline… it was HELL!

She’s not herself and it pains me seeing her in so much physical and mental anguish.

never thought this was a big deal–until this escapade. Zoloft has never helped me. How much were you on those 15 days and how do you feel now almost five months later?Hi Sophia, was just wondering how long your withdrawal lasted?

I have listened to a docu series on brain and gut health. I was poly drugged for 15 years.

I am at the point where I feel like I dug myself too deep of a hole to get out.

2 days without tablet.I went on sertraline 50mg following the death of my mother in particularly horrible circumstances and a tricky transition from university to working life.