Posted by 3 Beer Effect on April 25, 2002, at 14:18:59
In reply to UPDATE{{{{ 3 BEERS, posted by Geno on April 24, 2002, at 16:28:10
I never took 75 mgs but my sister did and it worked well. 75mg can be a pain because you have to cut in half a 100 mg pill and a 50 mg pill- unfortunately Pfizer doesn't make a 75 mg Zoloft pill.
When I took 50 mg for 2 months it didn't result in any mood or social phobia improvement. Whenever I took it, it would knock me out kind of like Remeron for hours at a time & I would wake up feeling woozy.
I then quit the Zoloft for a few months. Eventually a few months later I started on 100 mgs Zoloft and it took 3-4 weeks but wow, it was the best anti-depressant I have ever taken (& i've tried almost all of them except Prozac & Paxil). It felt like I had just drank 2 beers 24 hours a day, which I think is the greatest feeling in the world next to the 3 beer effect 24 hours a day of course. It was a great social disinhibitor, I could talk to attractive girls without alcohol for the first time, & could talk or initiate conversations with total strangers- I live in Texas so people here & in the rest of the Southern States (except non-panhandle Florida) are pretty friendly & talking to strangers doesn't bother them, but I suspect strangers wouldn't want to talk to you if you lived in Southern California or the Northeast. But after a few months I think I had a Zoloft induced manic switch, which is relatively rare I think, like 2.4%. I couldn't sleep at all every night but was not taking any medications for sleep/anxiety. Looking back I probably should have taken 75 mgs for a few months first.
But if your not Bipolar or ADD, then you should do well on either 75 or 100 mgs. It is probably better to try 75 mg first, & if that doesn't work well enough then go to 100 mg- if the side effects are too bad you can always cut back.
Some people take up to 200 mg- everyone is different in how they respond, but both Zoloft and Prozac are universally considered the "activating" SSRIs.3 Beers....................................
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