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Coming off Zoloft - looking for support

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mariah69970
mariah69970

Hi all!

I have started the process of tapering last week. Was on 75 mg, and started 50 mg and staying here for about another week or two before starting 25 mg and then stopping altogether. After 7 long months, I have come to realize that all along I was trying to fix something that was never broken. In the end, this medication has done nothing for me, but make me experience such horrible emotions unlike anything I have felt before. I feel like I am living behind a screen and my mood is just...blah. I'm done with fighting tiredness, fighting headaches, fighting myself. I liked who I was before starting this medication. I have a great sense of relief knowing I'm coming off of it. If it has worked for you, I AM SO HAPPY and I'm rooting for you! Please please please, no negative comments or comments telling me about staying on the medication. I know in my gut I need to come off. I am looking for similar stories with positive outcomes and support with discontinuation.

Thank you

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  • bittybon
    bittybon mariah69970

    Posted

    I agree with you, although zoloft helped me 3 years ago when I was bad with low mood and bad anxiety, when I felt better I weaned myself off them because they where only ever a band aid and never the miracle cure ,THAT lays within ourselves, l still get the odd low day or anxious feeling but I've never get to the point that I need to go back on them (fingers crossed) im glad to hear your doing well also!

    • mariah69970
      mariah69970 bittybon

      Posted

      How was your weaning process? I hear some not so nice things about the withdrawals.

  • sara89988
    sara89988 mariah69970

    Posted

    Hi Mariah,

    How are you feeling now, are you on 25mg yet? I totally understand why you want to come off them, I felt the same when taking Citalopram several years ago, they took away the depression I was suffering but I was just a shell of myself, not all meds suit everyone.

    I have been on Sertraline 100mg for 18 months after 3 months on 50mg, they have suited me much better than the Cit and I would have been happy to stay on them but Ive gained 2 stone in weight, have no energy and no libido at all and it is affecting my personal life. I am tapering off really slowly, I literally have been cutting or biting off a small chunk, about 20% and discarding it for about 2 weeks, I havent felt too bad apart from when i forget to take one, Ive also become very forgetful, hopefully another side effect of the drug! Im planning on keeping to this dose until after Christmas then take it down a bit more to just over half of one for a few weeks, I have to see my GP for a review so will ask for a 50mg prescription. It took me about 5 months to wean off Citalopram, the brain zaps were really bad, I was having to take 1 half of the smallest dose every 5 days to keep them at bay, before I braved stopping them, the brain zaps and light headed feelings lasted about 2 weeks then stopped so Im not rushing this process.

    I hope you are doing well with your reduced dose, you may well do much better at coming off them, I felt absolutely horrible when I started on them so think Im just sensitive to SSRI's.

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