Will I experience withdrawls of zoloft after 3 days of taking 25mg?

Hi Chris,

I only took sertraline for about two weeks and experienced the most excruciating migraines/headaches/brain zaps. It is difficult to describe. That was back in march/April of this year. Feeling better now but my suggestion to you is if you can deal with the side affects of this medication than continue them. Keep in mind though that withdrawel is horrible if and when you decide to stop them, especially if you've been on them for months years (this is what I've heard from others who took them longer than I did). Taking them for such a short amount of time and experiencing terrible symptoms (headaches were the worst), then dealing with the withdrawel was not worth it to me. I can just deal with the mild anxiety naturally. Hope you feel better and best of luck to you!

Thank you for your reply ! , glad to hear it's getting better for you , hopefully with some guidance from my gp it can be stopped/slowly reduced as Iv only started and taken 1 pill which was today, and as you said the side effects were horrible to deal with. Iv been reading about withdrawals and that scares me (from what Iv read online). Hopefully when I speak to my gp tomorrow something will get sorted out.

Thank you !

Hi xghost123, 

I took the Zoloft for roughly two weeks and I found myself being more hungry that usual. After reading up on it extensively yes one of the biggest side effects is weight gain! Thats with most antidepressants. Many people may not realize it because they are taking other meds or the weight might be gradual. Then when they realize its the Zoloft and try to taper, you're hit with the nasty physical side affects like headaches. Two weeks on it and I had massive headaches, stomach like flu symptoms, constant hunger. After I stopped the headaches lasted for months. Its a terrible medicine that does more harm than good, in my opinion. 

thank you , but does it make u feel good bcz am thinking about stoping taking it cause i dont want to harm my body 

I wouldn't say it made me "feel good". They doctors typically tell you it takes a month or so to kick in. By them you will have already suffered from the physical symptoms and may feel worse, like I did.  It should be prescribed for people with depression, but doctors are handing it out for just about anything to their patients, to treat stress, anxiety, depression just about anything if a patient comes in complaining about everyday stressors. Antidepressants have caused an epidemic, people that would have been perfectly fine without them now are running back with physical symptoms, which in turn are prescribed other antidepressants, upped dosages etc. Leading to a life long dependency of medications. I don't know, I've never felt worse from being on a medicine for such a short time...never in my life. These meds are dangerous and the patient should being informed of the horrendous side affects before they are prescribed these so they can decide if its worth it or not.    

Hi ghost,

I recently took this about 2 months ago, I'm not too sure on the weight gain but can tell you that the side effects are the worst ever even tho I only took 1 pill for 1 day it took like 2 weeks after that to finally clear my tension headache for stress and anxiety which has led to minor depression. It really wasn't worth it to be honest. 

I had same issue as you I was on sertraline/Zoloft in July of this year for literally 1 day, I only took 1 50mg tablet and it destroyed me and honestly took around 2-3 days to lose the side effects as I didn’t eat, nausea, shaking, headache basically everything !

 After a week I noticed it was better ! Fully out of my system. the first time (and only time) taking it is the worse personally. it does ease off, and I had anxiety and tension headache  and found to be coping better without medication. 

This was my point of view, as I guess everyone reacts different to it but will get better ! Plenty of water and trying to sit outdoors if possible !! 

I hope I could help

Hi I hope you are doing well. I was wondering how long until you felt better again? I got prescribed Zoloft for anxiety 6 days ago I just developed horrible anxiety this year... I went to the ER twice for it (first time at the hospital little did I know they couldn't do much for me but prescribe ativan, which helped me the past month but I was aware it was short term) the doctor the other day was very short with me and didnt even tell me any side effects but I tried to not read things online. I took my first 25 mg pill last tuesday night, I was up all night, barely wanted to go to work, I had a little hallucination at work... and I wasn't just nauseated I was non-stop vomiting, I had no appetite, if I forced myself to eat it would just come back up again, took it Wednesday night praying I would be okay, same symptoms, and I called off work, I had a mental breakdown that night. Called my doctor they said try taking it in the morning and cut it in half. I really didnt want to take it friday but I started having a bad pain in my neck, I couldnt get out of bed friday. Had another mental breakdown and quit my job. I felt like I was loosing my mind. Yesterday (saturday) I laid in bed all day still couldn't hardly eat. I decided I am done taking this medication. I felt like I didnt want to live anymore finally got some sleep. Today is Sunday 2 days without it. Woke up with fast heart beat and anxiety but feeling better than on the medication. I am praying I will feel better the next couple days. The same thing happened to me on only 10 mg of Lexapro about a month ago. I only took it for 2 days, I had sucidial thoughts on day 2 and had flu-like symptoms for almost a week. I guess SSRIs arent for me. Idk how only taking a little dose could make me feel so horrible. I am going to find a way to help myself naturally. I know everyone told me keep taking it, it will get better but I didn't think how I felt the past few days was worth it. It was way worse than before the medication.

Oh no! How are you feeling now? I actually stopped taking zoloft within 2 days of starting it. Then a after seeing both my primary care and physcoligist I was told to begin it again but take it at night. I did as recommended and have been ok. A few weeks ago I tried reducing my dose. I truly don't want to be on all these prescriptions. I was nauseous and dizzy, as well as severely emotional. My boyfriend asked that I take it again, at least until I had a follow up with the doctor. I see them the 26th or 28th. I would like to get off them and go naturally. Cbd or

medical marijuana.

I experienced side affects for months after stopping Zoloft. It altered my perception of pain. I believe this drug shouldn’t be prescribed to people that already have anxiety. It makes anxiety worse because of all the physical side affects it causes. I hope you stay feeling better and know that the physical symptoms will eventually disappear.