I stopped taking my 25mg of Zoloft cold turkey without tapering it to 12.5mg first. Ever since I stopped taking it, I've been getting severe migraine headaches, electric zaps every time I move my eyeballs, body aches, chills, fatigue, irritability, agitation and dizziness. I stopped it 12 days ago. I still have these withdrawal symptoms. When will the withdrawal symptoms go away? It's already been 12 days!
2007-01-12 09:58:46 · 4 answers · asked by Citygirl 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
It could last up to 3 months, depending on how long you took it.
This is a Paxil page, but the withdrawals are exactly the same:
http://quitpaxil.info/chatboard/index.php
Your doctor should be recommending that you reduce your dosage by 25mg a day every week days if you need to stop taking it, if not more slowly than that. http://crazymeds.org/
2007-01-12 15:34:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have been on zoloft for 8 years, and tapered down every two weeks 25mgs (went from 100mg to 12.5mg), then I took 12.5 every OTHER day for two weeks, and when I finally came off of the zoloft completely, I started having anxiety, brain zaps, and irritability after about a week. A month later, the zaps were gone, but the anxiety and irritability started kicking in BIG time. I jumped ship, and started taking 12.5mgs again. Too scared the anxiety will kick back in (which is not fun at all to go through) so I'm too scared to quit completely again. Not sure how long it lasts, but apparently it's more than a month. What we're feeling is called Seratonin Withdrawal, and it appears to me that people that are sensitive to the drug, no matter how you dice it, no matter how slowly you taper, you're going to have to go through the withdrawal symptoms to get off of it. Sigh. This is just my experience though. Everyone is different.
2016-07-19 04:12:45 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No wonder you are having problems! You can't just stop taking Zoloft cold turkey. Didn't you know that???? Call the doctor - these symptoms have lasted way too long.
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2007-01-12 10:02:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
maybe a [lacebo effect, take vitamun pills instead however their have been cases of some antidepressants having discontinuation syndrome and these seem real enough
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