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Posted by Jasmine25 on March 18, 2005, at 20:58:02
Wow, I had no idea that what I've been going through the past 3 days was withdrawal symptoms. I thought I had the stomach flu! I forgot to take my meds one morning, and I was only halfway to work when my stomach started feeling really nasty. By noon I could barely sit up straight. I left work early, and 4 hours later I had the worst diarrhea I'd ever had in my life. Several hours later I'd puked up everything I'd eaten that day, and yesterday I couldn't go to work. Today I went to work, but had to leave early again; I felt so dizzy that it felt like I had the world's worst hangover. Now it doesn't matter if I'm sitting or standing, the room keeps spinning.
All this makes me wonder though; I've been off my meds for 3 days now, would it really be worth it for me to go back on a low dose of this crap or should I just stick it out? I've got a 3 day weekend ahead of me now, will this last longer than that?
Some advice for anyone who is thinking of going on this medication for depression; try going to a psychologist first before you go on the pills. If anyone had told me that the withdrawal would be this nasty, I would have avoided them like the plague.
Posted by Phillipa on March 18, 2005, at 22:17:09
In reply to Re: withdrawal symptoms coming off zoloft, posted by Jasmine25 on March 18, 2005, at 20:58:02
How much zoloft were you taking? I'm only taking 25mg, but I'm supposed to go up to l00mg by next week. I don't know why, but it seems that the AD's don't affect me anymore where in the past, I couldn't even take small amts without side effects. I always stopped them. Now I take them and nothing. I'm stopping my l5mg of remeron for the same reason. I did a trial to see if it really was helping with sleep, and cut it to 7.5mg. Slept just as well. I do take l0mg of valium to sleep. Fondly, Phillipa
Posted by Jasmine25 on March 18, 2005, at 22:29:14
In reply to Re: withdrawal symptoms coming off zoloft » Jasmine25, posted by Phillipa on March 18, 2005, at 22:17:09
I was taking 50mg, but was supposed to go down to 25mg shortly.
Posted by gardenergirl on March 19, 2005, at 19:58:51
In reply to Re: withdrawal symptoms coming off zoloft, posted by Jasmine25 on March 18, 2005, at 20:58:02
And here's a link to it
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/wdrawl/20050228/msgs/472975.htmlgg
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