Posted by Buzz Aldrin2 on June 12, 2001, at 22:10:15
In reply to Re: zoloft and side effects » jewel, posted by chloe on June 5, 2001, at 20:06:24
> > I was prescribed 100mg/day of zoloft for panic disoder/anxiety about 3 weeks ago and apart from several side effects i think its great! The side effects are vivid dreams, waking up disorientated, dry mouth, diarrhea, rapid weight loss, slight tremor and muscle twitches. I was wondering if there is anyone out there who has experienced similar symptons and if so do these symptons go away in time or should i try another med, the symptons aren't too severe and im hoping there temporary!
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> When I took Zoloft, one thing that helped alot was dividing the dose into half in morning and half at night. I had far less nausea, no more diarrhea. I found the dry mouth and sleep eventually got better over time.
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> Hang in there!
For panic/stress/irregular heartbeats, I was put on 50mg/day and had trouble sleeping, and I also seemed to feel sort of sleepy about 3-4 hours after taking it in the morning. I tried splitting the dose up into 25 in the am and pm and I was able to sleep better. I would also get sweaty at night, but this also went away. Also, I did experience mild diahrrea and nervousness for the first few weeks.
Now I have cut back to just 25mg/day, once in the am, and it is working great for me. I feel more focused at work (Im a software developer), I don't worry unnecessarily, and everything seems to have that bright, cool look to it like it did when I was a kid (Hope somebody knows what I mean). I've been taking it for approx. 3.5 months now, and have been at 25mg/day for 4 weeks. Also, it took about
4 weeks for me to start noticing any changes. One of my favorite effects of it is the vivid dreams. They are so cool that I really look forward to going to bed each night to see what weirdness is going to happen in my dreams. I've actually had dreams where normal everyday things happened in them, and I later had trouble figuring out if my memory of a conversation or interaction with someone was
real or from one of my dreams. Pretty weird, but in a cool way.I bet your side effects will go away over time.
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