Zoloft Withdrawal
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Zoloft withdrawal
I just wanted to share a successful strategy of tapering off Zoloft with everyone. I am like everyone else here -- suffering from the same issues -- but I was lucky to find this advice on one of the WEB blogs for Zoloft withdrawal. I decided to try and have been relatively successful. I feel like I see a light at the end of the tunnel now!
I switched to liquid Zoloft which allows me to taper off EXTREMELY slowly and precisely. My doctor did not even know about this strategy, so I was on my own experimenting with it.
Here is how it works, but you will have to figure out what works best for you.
Have your doctor give you a prescription for liquid Zoloft. 1ml of liquid Zoloft equals 4mg of a pill you are taking. So if you are taking 100 mg of Zoloft for example you will be taking 25ml instead. Ask your farmacist to give you a couple dispensing syringes (they usually keep them behind the counter and will give them to you for free). they are critical because you will need to have a way to measure the exact amount of liquid Zoloft and decrease it very slowly.
Over the last eight months I went from 150 mg to 12(!) I experience some mild side effects -- zapping, irritability. If I felt that the side effects are just a little bit too much I would go back up on a dose a couple of ml. I tried to follow a schedule and go down 1ml per week but it did not work. There were times when I was able to go down 1ml every two days, other times I had to stay on the same dose for three weeks before I was able to go down again. I dont know what it depends on. I still have ways to go, because the lower you get the more difficult it becomes, but if you are really serious about getting off it -- try liquid Zoloft, and be patient and don't be harsh on yourself. If you have to increase your dose or stay on a certain level for a long time -- it is OK.
I have 12 mg still to go and I will take it easy -- I have gone a long way now and I know it will happen at some point. Good luck to you all!
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posted by ivar @ 12/24/2006 06:10:00 PM
5 Comments:
At Tuesday, January 23, 2007 4:01:00 PM,
lifesawonder said…
Your page on Blackberry eradication won't allow a comment, so I found you here. (Yes, as a fellow Cappie, I am persistant).
Anyways, thanks for that laugh - too, too good! I will be sharing this process with a few people!
Well, now I have to go to a clients house to eradicate the dreaded 'blood plant' (as I refer to what they get out of me).
Again, thanks for the laugh - I'll be thinking of you ever drop of blood while doing this!
At Friday, May 18, 2007 11:06:00 AM,
Anonymous said…
Hey,
I got off Zoloft on my own. My doctor actually said that I'd be on it for life.. but I was starting to think that I had a good enough mind to face my life without a pill.. This determination alone was really what helped me get off Zoloft.. So I started cutting down my dose myself.. I started tapering my dose off by 1/4 of a tablet (it's possible if you cut it with a knife).. I started to exercise more to keep up a positive psychological momentum (big step for me).. I finally got down to 1/2 a tablet.. was on that for about 2 months.. then.. I took the plunge and stopped all together. It's a pyschological step to actually get off Zoloft.. the physical rewards in getting off it were actually better than being on it. You just have to believe in yourself and that you were born without the drugs.. This means.. that you can deal with your life without them too (after they have done what they have really needed to...)..
Goodluck everyone..
At Monday, February 04, 2008 8:01:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
I have been on Zoloft for about 8 months, and for me, it has been a wonder drug. I have suffered from Panic Attack Disorder since the third grade (only, they didn't know what to call it then - it kept being referred to as 'nervous stomach' and a phase that I would grow out of). At the age of 31, I knew that my anxiety issues clearly weren't normal - panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, too easily stressed, and not understand the meaning of letting something "roll off my back." So I asked to go on Zoloft (I had tried it one other time in my life for a couple of months to get through a rough spell, and it worked then, too). Since going on Zoloft, I deem myself to be "normal" for the first time EVER. Now, I have heard friends comment that it causes them to just not care about ANYTHING, but for me, it eliminated the DRASTIC highs and lows, to where I don't worry about stupid insignificant things, but I have normal down days, and I still get excited about things that I like. But you all are scaring me - what the hell withdrawal symptoms do you have if you stop cold turkey? (In case I should ever decide to go off of it.)
At Monday, June 23, 2008 1:53:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
Started to take 50mg of zoloft for anxiety about 2 weeks ago. Never took it all the time or was serious about taking it either. I would take a pill here and there every other day or two, never daily or more than one a day. I hardly ever took it until past weekend I noticed it gave me ED. I immediately stopped taking it. Now I am experiencing extreme withdraw from it. I feel like I got hooked on it just like that. I am trying to wean myself off it taking half every other day, - withdraw symptoms are so bad! Its like I am taking it more often to wean myself off of it.
At Monday, June 23, 2008 1:59:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
Started to take 50mg of zoloft for anxiety about 2 weeks ago. Never took it all the time or was serious about taking it either. I would take a pill here and there every other day or two, never daily or more than one a day. I hardly ever took it until past weekend I noticed it gave me ED. I immediately stopped taking it. Now I am experiencing extreme withdraw from it. I feel like I got hooked on it just like that. I am trying to wean myself off it taking half every other day, - withdraw symptoms are so bad! Its like I am taking it more often to wean myself off of it.
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