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Have any of you experience with it? I was on 100 mg, and my doctor told me to step down to 50 mg for two weeks, then down to 25 mg for two weeks, and then I could decide if I stepped down to 12,5 for two more weeks or if I just quit. I'm on 12,5 now, and I'm so nauseated and dizzy, especially in the evenings. Reducing to 50 was not much of a problem, but when I reduced to 25 all of this really set in, increasing even more when I reduced to 12,5. Am I weaning to fast? The doctor isn't my GP, btw, but a doctor at the psychiatric clinic where I go to therapy, so she should have a lot of experience with this. But then again, I've had doctors in clinics/hospitals switching or taking me off my meds quite quickly before.. Anyway, it's so debilitating, cause I don't feel safe driving very far at a time, and I use the car to work. Today I just had to stop and go back home.
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why do you want to stop the zoloft?
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I take Zoloft at a high dose. At one point, when I was at 200 mgs, my doctor and I experimented with taking me off it. I got down to 50 mgs before I had crying spells over everything, so we decided to stick with it after all.
My doctor also used a two-week, step-by-step plan. But he told me that if I had serious physical side effects, I should try alternating days between the higher dose and the new, lower dose. (For example, 25 mgs then next day 50 mgs then next day 25 and so forth). I never had physical side effects, so I do not know how effective that is. I hope you feel better! __________________ Don't tell someone to get over it; help someone to get through it. |
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We're not sure that it helps much. I'm using it in combination with welbutrin, and although I've read that it's a good combo for many, the doctor thought that they might work against each other in my case.. Welbutrin had a very good effect when I first started with it, especially with giving me more energy, but over the last couple of years I started being more tired again. The Zoloft was added two years ago, partly because they thought the welbutrin might be (one of the things) causing my sleeping problems, and bco the anxiety, but I never really felt any difference.. So my GP increased the dose. Then this other doctor comes and says she thinks my med dosages are too high. I'm going along with it because I'm a bit fed up with meds lately.. I also quit Imovane before summer, and am on my third type of sleeping meds since then, and I'm just feeling
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Your approach seems reasonable to me. When I quit, my doctor gave me the same advice (2 weeks at each dose adjustment). I made the mistake of quitting after 25 mg and withdrawal effects were tough (anger, some hypomania). I recommend going down to 12.5 mg first.
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I'm down from 150 mg to 25 mg after having withdrawn according to a similar 2 weeks at a time schedule of decreased doses and it's only gotten horrible over the past few days. I'm experiencing severe brain zaps, moodiness, resurgent depression, and acute pain, along with extreme insomnia. If it doesn't abate soon then I'm going to be unable to return to work even when my current disability runs out. It's excruciating.
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