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Old Oct 02, 2017, 08:43 AM
AutumnEmily AutumnEmily is offline
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Hi,
First let me just say that I know meds help a lot of people, including me in the past! Last week my doc prescribed Zoloft again. I had not taken it since 2013, and had been on it for a little over 10 years. Even though I tapered down, it was challenging coming off of it. I had the head zaps, feeling generally weird, and bad insomnia for a few weeks.
However my work situation has been getting to me over last 2 years, since taking a job just for full time benefits and not having much luck getting another job I would enjoy. And working closely with someone I don't particularly get along with. So I though maybe the Zoloft would help get me motivated again, since it had helped me in the past. However after 4 days of 12.5 mg and 2 days at 25 mg, I realized I felt awful and was not getting restful sleep. It's so weird that meds for depression/anxiety cause sleep issues, which just exacerbates one's problems!!! At any rate, I remembered why I went off of them, and how awful the "discontinuation" symptoms were. Don't want to have to go through that again.
Sooooo, I did not take any this a.m. and am hoping a week wasn't enough to have any withdrawal symptoms.
Has anyone else stopped taking Zoloft, and was it challenging?

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Old Oct 02, 2017, 08:55 AM
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If you've only on it for a week it probably won't be that bad
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Old Oct 02, 2017, 09:22 AM
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True, one week is not long at all. Just glad I decided to stop before it got harder to stop!
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