Zoloft

That happened to me on an SSRI (luvox) so I had to stop... I didn't make it to the 4 week line where it's supposed to "kick in". I was also on a tiny dose. I guess I was too sensitive too it. I felt like utter shit though.

That's a tough one. Some people will say 'weak and tired' IS depression so taking more should alleviate it, but i think these are also pretty well-known side effects of zoloft. How long have you been taking it? Is this a new feeling ie does it intuitively seem like it was a drug side effect? tell your doctor about any way it makes you feel different.

R2 2 months. And, yes I've also felt weak and tired as a symptom of my depression.

I'm on SSRI (Cipralex) and I feel tired all the time. I really don't want to stop taking them though because I was really depressed and I don't want to go back to that.

R4 It's tough. I don't think most people realize how crappy SSRIs can make you feel.

Zoloft's effect can be similar to a depressant. It's calming, and it's designed to "take the edge off" at low doses and to basically turn a person into a robot at higher doses. A doctor put me on it in my mid-20s because I was having breathing trouble and she incorrectly assumed (without even checking my breathing!) that it was causes by anxiety. I felt kind of zombie like on it, and one stressful day at work I realized I felt no anxiety and I stopped taking it.

The shrink I see now put me on a low dose of Zoloft (50mg, of which I took half) and also on Wellbutrin. I told her I wouldn't take Zoloft if I felt like an automaton, and she said that Wellbutrin would "allow you to still see colors." (English is not her first language and I enjoy the expression.) And the combination was bettet than just Zoloft, except that Wellbutrin, it turns out, is basically speed. It exaggerated a latent neurological condition.

In retrospect, I would say Zoloft works well to reduce anxiety, and Wellbutrin is a "happy pill." Combining them can make for a slightly better balance if you have anxiety and depressive symptoms together. If your depression involves a lack of motivation or energy but not anxiety/obsessive compulsiveness, etc., then Zoloft could potentially exacerbate the down feeling.

Incidentally, I don't take these drugs anymore. I tried ayahuasca during a bleak point when I was very ill, and it practically obliterated my anxiety problems for good. It's really astounding how well it worked. After that, I was diagnosed with Lyme disease and after antibiotic treatment for about five months, both the remaining anxiety and my depression lifted like magic. It actually took a lot of time to get over the weird unnerving feeling of *not* being paralyzed by obsessive dark thoughts or fear of other people.

I'm also on a low-dosage Zoloft regimen (50 mg) and it's had no bad effect on my energy level. I've been on it for several years now and have considered cutting the dosage in half. My doctor gave me the go-ahead for this but I still haven't done it because Zoloft is the only drug that's successfully controlled my depression. I had tried quite a few others - alone and in combination - before starting on Zoloft.

The only side effect I've had is occasional to frequent bizarre dreams. That disturbed me initially but now I'm OK.

I took Wellbutrin just after 9/11 and it made me more anxious , more depressed and suicidal/

r6 where did you get/take ayahuasca? that seems very risky ifyou are depressed/anxious.

I took Zoloft for a week. I sat on my bed and stared. I forgot to go to work one day. I stopped taking it.

R9 It's a long story, but basically my body was dying, physically speaking. Doctors were testing me for ALS and MS and had no explanation for why I was in excruciating pain, disoriented, my leg was sometimes paralyzed, etc. (It was actually much *worse* that that sounds.) After years of all that, I slowly went through every classic phase of grief and accepted that I was dying. I was on Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Klonopin for anxiety and low dose (25 mg) Seroquel for sleep and none of it masked the reality that my body and mind were withering away. I did a lot of research for about 18 months--NIH-funded studies and books--about ayahuasca and decided finally that if it might help me accept death, then I was willing to take the leap of faith. I had to wean myself off all the psych meds for a couple of months first and I was very careful in doing so. And I was terrified to try ayahuasca because only drugs I had ever taken were the psych meds and Benadryl; I've never even had a puff of a cigarette, much less anything mind-altering. Since I felt certain my body was shutting down anyway, it kind of felt like a last chance to experience something fantastical, and I had done so much research I really knew on a conscious level what to expect. And it absolutely changed my life for the better, no question. It was about six months before I confessed to my psychiatrist and she was a bit shocked because it was so uncharacteristic for me to ever do anything like that, but she said she had seen a sudden and remarkable improvement in me for months and said it sounded like it had done wonders for me--and never to do anything like that again without first consulting her. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Anyway, it changed my life for the better. I don't take any psych meds. I still have mild mood fluctuations and occasional very mild anxiety likely due to CNS inflammation, but nothing like what I had gone through for years.

R10 because you didn't gradually up the dose. What you explain happens when you go from 0 to 50.

R11, you sound demented. You self diagnosed that you were dying? Okay.

r11 what happened to the other physical ailments? Do you think you were just suffering from delusions before? Some people have awful experiences with ayahuasca; a friend who knows more about it than I said you open up your soul to different dimensions/entities and sometimes it's good and sometimes horrifying and some people kind of get possessed (my term) by lower level entities.

In any case I'm glad you're better.

Really, R12? Take more? No fucking way.

R8 - yes, that drug can be VERY stimulating - in a bad way. I had the same experience. After 9/11, I had to continue to fly constantly for work (and in and out of LGA right in December - and my office was on Maiden Ln - walking distance to the wtc).

I ended up on klonopin.

Took Prozac and Zoloft without any noticable changes in mood except panic attacks. Wellbutrin turned my life around. Also, the first two made it impossible to cum. No such side effect with Wellbutrin.

Zoloft will permanently fuck your sex drive.

I believe the ssri with the least number of sexual side effects is cipralex?

Wellbutrin is given to people with eating disorders because it suppresses the appetite and revs up the metabolism, which means they lose weight without having to barf or take laxatives. It's a soft version of the drug phentermine, which does the same thing way more effectively.

R11, that drug has already spazzed you. You're suffering from the delusion that you were dying. You type like a big old junkie.

Both Zoloft and Effexor made me feel like I was on a very boring uphill hike the first two months. The tiredness passed with both, but Zoloft didn't work for me and made cumming an hour-long chore.

R14 No, as I said, a couple of years after I took ayahuasca and was emotionally more at peace, I was diagnosed with Lyme disease. My physical symptoms had not improved at all. My psychological state improved a great deal, but I still had some cognitive issues (brain fog, which I still have on and off). After about five months on antibiotics, the pain and other neuro and joint symptoms improved dramatically. I still have extreme fatigue and, as I said, some cognitive issues on and off, but my health improved physically after months of antibiotics.

No, none of this was delusion, although much of it was surreal. I went to over a dozen doctors who documented a lot of "worrisome" neurological problems, including too-brisk reflexes, inflammed optic nerves, cluster headaches and Meniere's disease and bloodwork anomalies. But the neurologists were investigating specifically for ALS and then for MS, and the labs didn't add up to either and so one concluded that it's probably all just anxiety and the other concluded after a lot more tests that something was wrong, but that it was undiagnosable and therefore untreatable.

Yes, some people who take ayahuasca have traumatic experiences. One of mine was, and I've had a few disturbing flashbacks from that and have never taken it since, but overall (despite those flashbacks, yes) it made my life a thousand times better. And no, I don't expect anyone to really understand that or to think it's more than a fad psychedelic drug. But you can go to pubmed.com, NIH's medical study repository, and read for yourself the effects of ayahuasca and other psychedelics such as psilocybin on anxiety and depression. We are coming off a decades-long prohibition and war on drugs and so I don't expect anyone to accept that these plant medicines work better than pharmaceutical band-aids do. But they do.

R14 PS re your friend's comments about other dimensions and entities...well, I never believed in anything like that at all. I had no tolerance for it. But whether it's a miraculous psychological manifestation or reality, yes, I definitely "went other places," and yes, I encountered other intelligent entities, some menacing, some incredibly nurturing, and most that seemed curious about what the hell I was and why I was there. And those experiences felt more real than this reality, and throughout (many people who experience ayahuasca or DMT report this) I kept thinking "Holy shit, the real world is just a dream, and this bizarre place is real." But then you come out of it and have to integrate the different verions of reality. For me, all that is equally wondrous and disturbing, along with other lessons. But the big understanding most people come out of these experiences with is that everything is alive, we are all interconnected, and there's not really any good or evil, just experience, and all experience is a wonder. Basically, it's like a rebirth, and I think the healing from depression and anxiety is the childlike wonder from discovering new things all over again. Kids are innately curious and happy because of it. When you have these experiences, you get to experience awe again.

I would love to try ayahuasca. where do i start? thx.

R6 et al is Yolanda Hadid Foster

True R26, everyone who has Lyme disease is one of crazy crazy Yolanda Foster's multiple personalities.

Again, ask your doctor about Cipralex as opposed to Zoloft.

Dirty Side Effect : You cum like crazy.

I was on both Zoloft and Celexa at various times, and hated them. They made me feel "blah" throughout the day, to the point where I could barely even crack a smile if someone told me something funny. But I was also drinking heavily at the time, and the even worse part of it all was that in the evenings, the combination of the Zoloft and booze would make me stupidly euphoric and goofy acting - which resulted in 2 DUI's. I still drink now these days, but I don't get anywhere near as goofy when drunk as I would on Zoloft. Also, Zoloft and Celexa make sex miserable. It would take me forever to cum or maintain an erection.

I always took Zoloft with buproprion, so I never noticed any sluggishness. However, when I came off Zoloft - augh! Headaches, dizzy spells, felt faint, off and on for over six weeks. Was terrible.

Oh, and Zoloft totally killed my sex drive. Not as bad as Prozac did, but still definitely had some boner issues.

It's really amazing if you stop to think about it how many of us have taken not only Zoloft, but other psych meds, as well. One day there'll be an epidemic of serious long-term side effects just like there's been from other over-prescribed medications. But good news: three brand-new pills will be available--without generics--to compensate.

But really. Should as many of us take Zoloft as have taken aspirin?

R32: I wonder about the long-term side effects of all these meds -- I suspect dementia will be one of them.

R27 good article, thanks. Something the medical community has finally begun to deal with is the co-infections transmitted along with Lyme bacteria. Some are very expensive and difficult to screen with current testing; insurance companies don't ordinarily cover the cost of those tests.

Babesiosis was very rare in New England, and usually only professional landscapers/lawn mowing crews got infected - on offshore islands like Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. They came in contact with white-footed mice nests and the infected ticks that prey on that host species.

Babesiosis is a relative of malaria, toxoplasmosis and cryptosporidiosis. They are all very nasty diseases that can kill you or cause very debilitating disease. The ticks infected with Borrelia burgdorferi - which causes Lyme infection - are often found to be infected with the babesiosis pathogen as well as the pathogen which causes Anaplasmosis. The tick that picked up any or all of these from the white-footed mouse can pass them along to you. I know three people who nearly died from a combination of these infections. I was treated for Lyme and Babesiosis (which required malaria medications and a second antibiotic other than the doxycycline required to treat Lyme.) I was very sick during and after treatment; it took a year before I had any resiliency and years after that to return to normal physical activity. I too have periodic problems with fatigue and foggy brain but they are less frequent with time. I hated being so sick and debilitated.

There is a troll and/or theme on DL that abuses Lyme as thoroughly as Fibromyalgia is abused here. I assume that troll or those posters live nowhere near where the realities of Lyme and its co-infections are active. It's a public health crisis in MA. Visit the NIH or MA public health websites if you still believe it's dismissible as attention whoring or hypochondria.

These tick borne diseases are at epidemic levels in Southern New England, Minnesota, NY, NJ and increasingly on the west coast. And it is suggested, in surveys conducted in various countries, that it is potentially sexually transmitted.

My doctor gave it to me to quell my OCD...it made me sweat like a pig. Especially from my scalp. To the point that the texture of my hair was altered - permanently. I'm serious.

R34 I grew up in Northern Virginia and now live in DC. Lyme is disturbingly prevalent in this region, as well as a lot of other tickborne diseases. My sister works for a county government and without exaggerating, half of her coworkers or their children have either had Lyme or another disease like STARI or Rocky Mountain spotted fever. It's an actual epidemic that no one pays any attention to.

R36 Thanks for sharing that information. The most common Lyme co-infections include, in addition to Lyme's Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria: Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Bartonella, Ehrlichiosis, Mycoplasma (includes human respiratory/pneumonia strains,) Relapsing Fever, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, and Tularemia. Those are the ones that we have identified so far.

Would you please say more about STARI? It is disturbing. We recently had lone star ticks arrive in a few pockets in MA; we will undoubtedly see them more commonly soon too. The potential for meat allergy as a residual effect is truly bizarre. Thanks in advance for any feedback.

If anyone calls me and R36 out for hijacking this thread, I refer you back to the earlier poster R6 - Lyme can cross the brain barrier. I have an elderly relative who was one of the original documented cases in Lyme CT who has continued to be studied since the earliest diagnosis. He has had extensive neurological damage which has caused physiological as well as psychological effects. R6 might be another example of this (and I say it as neither a positive or negative reaction to R6 etc posts, nor as a dismissal of his reported experiences.)

What a bunch of drug addicted sad sacks! Get out of your pharma stupors and deal with your shit. You want your dads to truly love you? Them stop it with the over emotional 12 year girl and many the fuck up

Gives me energy only when I'm at 50mg and then raise it to 100mg. The"I'm not gonna kill myself pills".

Shaddup R38, just because you let your brain chemistry run wild and morbid, don't expect a lot of agreement. You sound 60+ years.

I can't even stand in the shower!

If you should quit SSRI's and want to try something different, give rhodiola rosea a shot for your depression.

I'd couple it with Omega-3 Fish oils (at least 2g EPA, 348mg DHA).

My preferred brand of rhodiola is at the link (google the evidence for rhodiola and depression).

Regardless, I'd recommend taking 2g of EPA. I use Nordic Naturals "Ultimate Omega" myself.) Also, the use of a light box can be very helpful for depression in general - not just for those affected with Seasonal Affective Disorder depression. And consider Vitamin D supplementation, too (Vitamin D3)

Stop taking anti-depressants. They turn you into zombies, destroy your sex drive and are bad for you physically. Smoke some weed, it's better than any DEA "approved" drug. It helps depression, anxiety and other conditions. The fact that it's illegal is rediculous.

R43 I don't like the effect of cannabis personally, but I believe strongly that psychoactive plant medicines are the missing link for a lot of people who need emotional balance. It sounds radical these days, but they've been used for eons for spiritual reasons, for good reason.

speaking of cannabis, I'm a big fan of CBD tinctures, they've helped me a lot with my anxieties without making me feel high, just relaxed and at ease. (I make my own, from a strain that has almost no THC but about 25% CBD). Cannabis with high levels of THC, on the other hand, allow me to get too much into depressive, overly-sensitive (... and insightful, I will say) reflections, which exacerbate my depressive tendencies. Ditto alcohol.

Oh, I forgot to recommend ginger and curcumin extracts for depression. Good research evidence for both.

CBD is a good way to go if you don't want the high of THC. You still get many benefits.

r6 - how and where did you take the ayahuasca? Was it in the US? I'm very curious about the experience, if you wanted to go into details about it.

OP, did you have a chance to check the library of threads about Zoloft in the DL archives? It's packed with much of the same information in this thread plus more.

Don't like the effects of Cannibis. I smoked weed 3/4 of my life. That would not help my depression. I'll stick to Wellbutrin.

R33 I think you're spot on...when in 30 years us DLers are posting rambling posts or the same posts over and over we'll know you were right

[R33] I think you're spot on...when in 30 years us DLers are posting rambling posts or the same posts over and over we'll know you were right

R51 har har

Instead of asking your doctor or maybe even a pharmacist, you choose to ask a bunch of anonymous people. Of course this way you can pick and choose amongst the lame answers that will fit the conclusion you desire.

R53 IMO it's wise these days to ask average people about their experiences with drugs like these. If you needed something like amioderone to regulate heart rhythm, yes, just take what the doctor tells you to take. But things like Zoloft or even narcotic pain medications are HEAVILY marketed and greatly overprescribed, they're not usually prescribed for life-or-death situations, and people's reactions to them vary greatly among individuals. My sister and my mother both hallucinated on SSRIs. I have taken several and never had any effects like that, but Wellbutrin made me gain a lot of weight, sweat like a pig, and clean obsessively like a meth addict. Klonopin is like a soul muzzle. But Klonopin and Wellbutrin may work well for others. People need to know what to expect and need to understand the great variability in efficacy and side effects, and even the addictive potential, of these drugs. Doctors almost never discuss those these days. Zoloft is as common as aspirin, and so doctors are just used to prescribing it as a cure-all. If it doesn't work for someone, they say, oh, well then, let's give you X SSRI instead, buttercup. These medications interfere with neurotransmitters and they can cause emotional and physiological effects and are handed out recklessly without any real thought by a lot of doctors. So asking the huge pool of people who've taken it about their experiences in my view is a perfectly valid and wise thing to do.

R53 Also, I'm guessing you haven't been to many doctors in recent years. They don't like to answer questions because they don't have time to answer questions. And they will even tell you that: years ago, the average visit time was about 15 minutes; now, ut's under five. They want to get in, look at your body and your labs, make a differential diagnosis/guesstimate and related prescription or write a referral, and then get the hell outta Dodge. They spend more time doing paperwork than visiting with patients, and the longer they talk to you, the later they'll be in the office filling out insurance forms.

Once I was in a doctor's office and I had literally three questions to ask. The doctor did his thing, looked at me, told me what he thought and told me to pay at the desk. As I askes the first question, he sighed, backed toward the door and put his hand on the doorknob. I said, "I'm sorry, am I wasting your time?" He looked like I had snapped him out of a daydream. "What?" I told him I knew he was busy and that it was perfectly clear that he didn't feel he had the time to answer my questions, but that I had been very ill, I was there for my own body and my own health, and I felt asking three straightforward questions that I had thought through before I came was reasonable--and that I could find another doctor who wouldn't be so exasperated by a patient who is invested in his own health. The doctor apologized and said I was right. But he was still impatient as fuck and really did not want to be hanging out in there. Doctors don't engage in conversation anymore, and they don't really consider patient-reported symptoms to be significant; it's all about lab reports. Unfortunately lab reports don't show when a patient who was given an antidepressant for dubious reasons begins to hallucinate or suddenly develops OCD.

I took Zoloft for a month, out made me a zombie. Stopped taking it. I took Welbutrin and that worked good for a few years, then it have me restless legs. That went away when I stopped taking it. Every antidepressant medication that I have ever taken eventually stops working, and most cause bad insomnia, which I already have trouble with. I take nothing now, I've found that if I remain single my depression doesn't get bad enough to need meds.

*It. Not out.

Leading cause of death for white men in their 50s: suicide.

Latgest demographic on DL: white men in their 50s.

We're here, we're queer. And we hate your shoes, R38.

R55 gets it. So many seem to lack any sort of bed side manner. The psychiatrists are even worse.

[quote]Wellbutrin is a soft version of the drug phentermine, which does the same thing way more effectively.

It's actually a very close chemical cousin of the diet drug diethylpropion, or Tenuate. Both can lower the seizure threshold and cause seizures in people who've never had them before.

R60 I had major tremors while I took it. Never a grand mal seizure or anything, but twitching like a roach sprayed by Raid and occasional mild head bobbing.

I'm on 50 mg on it and have been for about a year and a half. I'm bipolar and some of those meds can make me manic but the Zoloft doesn't . (I was on Prozac less than a week and thought it would be a great idea to try and break into my childhood home in the middle of the afternoon . After trying to tear through a screen in one of the windows , i decided this probably was a poor idea and drove myself to my drs office ).

Anyhoo the Zoloft just sort of "blunts" things for me. I still feel emotions but not as intense as before. For me it's a good thing . I still have a healthy sex drive but I've always had a high sex drive which may also be part of the bipolar . The Zoloft doesn't keep me awake but I do take seroquel at night as well as Topamax. I am at a very healthy weight because I do a good hour or more of cardio every day.

These meds really are just a crap shoot on how they will affect you . Different for everyone . But you do need to give them a few weeks to work and to get past the initial hump. Sometimes there are yucky side effects that really do go away . Topamax made things taste really bad for a while and I almost gave up but after a few weeks that stopped .

R43 has shit advice about pot.

I tried a cannabis tincture for nerve pain and I ended up seeing neon goblins (with eyes closed only) when I went to bed. That troubled me. So no more cannabis for me. But I know it works for a lot of people as a medicine. In my opinion we should regard all psychoactive medications the same way, whether they grow in a ditch or are made in a factory: they affect everyone differently.

Why didn't the goblins open their eyes?

R65 hehehe! OK, I asked for that. Their eyes were definitely open, and they were making scary-silly faces at me! Fortunately, I only saw them when MY eyes were closed. So I sat up all night afraid to fall asleep. The tincture was not very good for anxiety in my case.

Zoloft is more like a Tranquil pill, rather than Happy pill.

"We should regard all psychoactive medications the same way..."

Agree, and that includes herbal supplements, like St. John's Wort and Kava Kava. Some of those can adversely affect the action of prescribed medications that someone is taking. Ask your pharmacist!

What's your advice R63?

Try stevia for Lyme or its symptoms. Yes the sweetener - the liquid form, not the crystals though. Its been found in recent studies to kill the bacteria dead in vitro (in lab settings). It apparently can cut through the biofilms that often 'protect' the different forms the bacteria takes. Clinical trials in humans are underway.

Google this. Had a relative who suffered for years who used it for a short course and said it gave her years of life back.

wow r70. Does it affect other bacteria too? I wonder if the drug cos will try to ban it (the way they did with that rice that worked as well as statin drugs).

R38 is trying too hard. Repressing whatever happened to him that made him such a bitter, enraged but ineffective old man.

Sounds intense R24

R55 nails it. Doctors do not listen anymore. Visits are like going through a drive through. That's because insurance companies are squeezing every last bit of profit out of being a doctor, and doctors resent the hell out of it. I don't blame them, but when you need to get a certain number of patients in and out the door every day to make your money, talking goes out the window. Unfortunately, this approach is costing them in other ways, as malpractice insurance rates have gone through the roof.

Ironically, many medical professionals roll their eyes at people who research their symptoms on WebMD, saying it is no match for their professional expertise. Well, your expertise is useless if you're not taking the time to listen to me and make an intelligent diagnosis. My mom's cancer symptoms (bloating, stomach aches, etc.) showed up years before she received a proper diagnosis, but her doctors would attribute them to "stress," "lactose intolerance," etc. By the time they figured out she had cancer, it was stage four. She died shortly thereafter. Even now, I wish she had pushed back against the doctor who flat out told her it was all in her head.

Wow thought it was just me and I had a bad doctor.

Nope, R75. It's happening all over.

Another thing they're doing to cut costs: slashing the number of nurses and lowering the standards to become a nurse. You used to need a degree, now you just need a 2-year certificate. I had a situation recently where the nurse was supposed to call me in for further testing based on a wonky initial test result. She "forgot" to call me. I only found out about it when I called the office about two months later to renew a prescription. The doctor called me back in a panic a few minutes later (this doctor NEVER calls people directly, BTW) and told me I had to come in. The he had the nerve to say "why didn't call us earlier to get your first test result?" I replied "I didn't call you because your nurse told me point blank that you would call me only if there was an abnormality--and that if everything was normal, I would NOT get a call from your office." Never trust them.

It's getting like that in Canada too. R76 I've noticed an uptick in lack of accountability as well. They're almost never willing to admit fault or own a mistake. Very poor customer service.

Remember a few years back there was a newsweek article and a spate of books about how we were conned by drug companies because SSRis were no better than placebo? Then the drug companies claimed they would prove that theory wrong ... so did they ever? If not why are they still being prescribed?

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R6 what did Ayahuasca do for you? Did you experience death, or see dead ancestors? People I know who have taken it said how this happened to them. They also all said how it was nothing like taking either mushrooms or LSD which I have taken both before as a teenager/young adult. My days of using drugs are basically over as they were enjoyable but I know people who are in their 60s who have been using drugs all of their adult life or even just smoking herb that long and they're completely burnt out/spun/perma fried.

I know someone else who has taken A LOT of Ayahuasca and he pays a lot of money to travel to Peru to take it at some resort type place, and he basically believes that what he sees/experiences while on Ayahuasca is more real than actual reality itself.

When I tried wellbutrin like you described, it was basically a stimulant to me and I did sleep on it but despite getting 8-9 hours of sleep I would feel as though I had stayed awake for 1-2 nights drinking lots of caffeine. Zoloft also would make me tired but I just drank more caffeine on it and would take it at night.

R74, you can thank Obamacare/ACA for doctor's visits basically being like you described, in and out, and it takes more time to fill out paperwork to see a doctor than the amount of time that you see them. I'm liberal but Obamacare/ACA sucks and should have never been passed.

Zoloft makes your penis shrink.

Have you tried supplementing it with a line of cocaine? I hear that cocaine is a great pick-me-up especially in the mornings.

No I haven't tried that R82. What a great idea!!!1!!!

I’m a woman who just started taking Zoloft; I’ve never taken a long-term SSRI like this before. Some of the posts here are really concerning. Has anyone had a positive experience from Zoloft.? Thanks for your feedback. I’m worried because I’m very sensitive and overall I feel side effects strongly. My symptoms are pretty bad. OCD, anxiety, getting past toxic relationship, obsession, it goes on and on.

Celexa made we hallucinate on the first night. Now I know what the stoners meant when they said “look at the colors!” The doc told me to cut the dose in half. Yeah, sure.

Zoloft vs Wellbutrin?

I think more people should take ADHD speed, rather than SSRIs. But cymbalta is one anti-depressant that can be speedy. Try that one?

Like you, R84. ADHD would help with obsession and ruminative thinking.

At night b/sleep

Then you're all good

♡

Zoloft did take my sex drive from about 50 to 0, but I'm old don't care about that. What it did do was allow me to start going out again. I was so anxious I could barely leave my house. Now I can go out and couldn't care less what other people think about me. It has really been a life changer for me.

Every medicine, no matter what, makes me sleepy

[quote]Zoloft vs Wellbutrin?

I've taken both for a few years now. 300 mg of Wellbutrin and 200 mg of Zoloft each day.

Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) meetings are a great place to discuss medication side effects, dosages, whether you should try something new, etc. The facilitator at my old group gave great advice on how to report my issues to my psychiatrist. I recommend going to 2 or 3 meetings to discuss your medication issues.