Posted by Andreadrea on March 19, 2005, at 12:52:41 [reposted on March 29, 2005, at 7:49:27 | original URL]
In reply to Re: withdrawal symptoms coming off zoloft, posted by JohnL on June 5, 2000, at 3:21:01
I've been on Zoloft since 1992 or 93. Started at 12.5 mg, worked amazing, frankly it saved my life I think. But I had to deal with 170 lb weight gain, and loss of libido for 5 years. Also had to up the dose many times over the years. Now I'm at 300 mg, and when I went from 275 to 300 mg, there was no change in mood at all, so I decided it was time to go off. 3 days ago (with dr supervision) I reduced the dose to 275. I had hoped I wouldn't feel much different, but I've got occasional diarrhea, I'm crying over little things, and I woke up after 5 hours sleep and couldn't get back to sleep. I usually sleep 8 hours a night and nap 2 hours a day, which i think is too much and caused by the zoloft, but its weird waking up early like that. I'm scared that I won't be able to do this without affecting my job and my whole life, but I'm going to stay at this dose for a week and reassess. Damn this is scary. I used to think I'd be on Zoloft for life, but it isn't really doing what it used to, and I think it is time to get off it. I'm also on neurontin now, which was added to kinda augment the Zoloft when it stopped working so well. After so long at a high dose, even a small change produces a lot of symptoms!
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