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Day 2 on Zoloft

Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Jun 19 9:58pm | Replies (17)

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I suffered like nothing I’d ever experienced before on Zoloft. I was sick for 3 full months then another 2 months weaning. I had to go to the Emergency Room with severe shaking, hear palpitations, severe anxiety attacks. I was falling and needed a wheel chair, severe headaches and eye blurriness. I had to stop driving also.
It felt like I was living in a tunnel and was an out of body experience. Brain & Body zaps, severe diarrhea, food lost its taste, lost 17 lbs because I couldn’t eat. Grinding my teeth so badly my entire mouth, face & head felt like it was in a vise. Actually there’s more…just too much information to discuss.
My immediate reaction was run from that med ASAP! Nightmare…ask your Dr. to prescribe Ativan to help ease the symptoms. They usually prescribe both at the same time. When you are free of the side effects after slowly weaning then your PCP can help you wean off the Ativan.
I used the Ativan only as needed. Very little but helped me immensely to get off the Zoloft.
I wish you the best of luck with this. It was the most challenging and difficult experience of my life. I fought cancer with Chemo and I still never felt as bad as I did while taking Zoloft.

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Wow. I can't imagine going through what you went through. Your symptoms sound very similar to mine. How long were you on Zoloft for? And did you start tapering? I quit it cold turkey after 5 days BUT I also had other medications in my system. Which I think made everything worse. It's been almost 3 weeks since I stopped the Zoloft and about 2.5 weeks since it was fully eliminated from my body. Today was the first day I didn't have to force feed myself a meal during the day. The weird thing is I get super hungry before bed and feel like myself again but then I wake up and feel like crap, anyone have a weird up and down schedule like that? I felt better earlier in the afternoon but now, I'm having a weird feeling in my head. I'm trying to tell myself that it's chemicals trying to balance out in my brain. I don't want to take anything more since my body kept having reactions to each additional medication. Xanax makes me sick and I know that's like the shorter acting version of Ativan. I wish I could take something to calm me but I'm really trying to let my body do it's thing naturally as hard as it has been.