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OH great all I'm hearing is all this negativity about zolft!!!! I was just put on it, i started with 25mg for 2 weeks and today was the first day i was told to increase my dose to 50mg for 5 days and then 100mg. I was prescribed it for anxiety, PTSD, and depression, i sure hope i do not get these side effects i keep hearing about. Does anyone have anything positive to say about the drug? I sure do need something to help me thats not addicting, and i tried allot of the other SSRI's all without success.
"You'd better stay off these sorts of forums then if you don't want to hear horror stories about your medication."
Really?? I came here for help with anxiety as this is an anxiety forum, and just wanted to hear personal experience with the meds that i was prescribed. Just a little harsh IMO.
Thank you for sharing your experience with zolft.
Really?? I came here for help with anxiety as this is an anxiety forum, and just wanted to hear personal experience with the meds that i was prescribed. Just a little harsh IMO.
Thank you for sharing your experience with zolft.
I want you to know that going on Zoloft is not a bad thing. I was on 100 mg. for a year and it seems to help me. I would like to try to get pregnant, so recently I have quit taking the drug, weining down slowly with direction from my doctor. If is wasn't for that, I would have remained on it.
Just remember that everyone's body has different reactions to this drug. If you do your research and know the side effects and the withdrawal symptoms, you won't be surprised when you feel certain ways.
Know you are not alone and people are right there with you going through the same thing.
Take care,
Jamie
Just remember that everyone's body has different reactions to this drug. If you do your research and know the side effects and the withdrawal symptoms, you won't be surprised when you feel certain ways.
Know you are not alone and people are right there with you going through the same thing.
Take care,
Jamie
You'd better stay off these sorts of forums then if you don't want to hear horror stories about your medication. Because somebody, somewhere, at sometime will have something negative to say about whatever you're taking.
Me? I've been on Zoloft for almost 3 years now and aside from a few days of dry mouth when I first began taking it, I've had absolutely no problems and I feel great. I feel like my old self on this stuff. I began at 25mg, was upped to 50mg then 100mg and I now maintain at 150mg. Am I addicted? God, I'm so tired of that debate between addiction/tolerence/dependence I could scream. I don't know and actually I don't care if I am "addicted" or not. I DO know that when the day comes my therapist and I decide I can get off this stuff, that I WILL need to withdraw slowly from it. I know there is no cold turkey route off ANY psychotropic medication. So big deal. When the time comes for me to quit, I'll taper at whatever rate works for me and I will be the one making that decision. If my therapist tells me it should only take me 6 weeks to taper but I'm not feeling comfortable with the cuts he's making, then I'll tell him it's too fast for me. If he gets pissy, I'll take my buisness and MY head elsewhere.
Yikes, sorry. You probably think the Zoloft has made me crazy. Zoloft gave me my life back.
The one and ONLY person who can tell you if it's good or bad, if it works or not, is YOU. Period. Try it and see. Give it a fair trial. It took about 6 weeks for me to really begin to feel a change in my mood when I first began. That's longer than all the books say. Big deal. We're all different.
Listen to yourself.
Peace
Greenlydia
Me? I've been on Zoloft for almost 3 years now and aside from a few days of dry mouth when I first began taking it, I've had absolutely no problems and I feel great. I feel like my old self on this stuff. I began at 25mg, was upped to 50mg then 100mg and I now maintain at 150mg. Am I addicted? God, I'm so tired of that debate between addiction/tolerence/dependence I could scream. I don't know and actually I don't care if I am "addicted" or not. I DO know that when the day comes my therapist and I decide I can get off this stuff, that I WILL need to withdraw slowly from it. I know there is no cold turkey route off ANY psychotropic medication. So big deal. When the time comes for me to quit, I'll taper at whatever rate works for me and I will be the one making that decision. If my therapist tells me it should only take me 6 weeks to taper but I'm not feeling comfortable with the cuts he's making, then I'll tell him it's too fast for me. If he gets pissy, I'll take my buisness and MY head elsewhere.
Yikes, sorry. You probably think the Zoloft has made me crazy. Zoloft gave me my life back.
The one and ONLY person who can tell you if it's good or bad, if it works or not, is YOU. Period. Try it and see. Give it a fair trial. It took about 6 weeks for me to really begin to feel a change in my mood when I first began. That's longer than all the books say. Big deal. We're all different.
Listen to yourself.
Peace
Greenlydia
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