Hi all. I have been on Zoloft 25mg for 2 weeks. Today, I am going up to 50mg. I tried to go up to 50mg after one week, but felt very nervous the whole day. That's my problem anyway, from the very beginning: I was waking up nervous and tingly so my doctor prescribed Zoloft. After these 2 weeks on Zoloft, I am still doing that. I actually feel better 'before' I take the Zoloft in the morning and am wondering what I would feel like if I didn't even take the Zoloft (weaning myself off of course). I take it first thing in the morning so I don't have a chance to see what I would be like if I didn't take the Zoloft. However, my doctor says it could take a month to see results but I am just so sick and tired of feeling this nervousness EVERY SINGLE DAY until around 7:00pm when it lets up. Just curious if it will finally kick in 'eventually'. Thank you.

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I have just been through this with paxil and generally it takes 4 to 6 weeks for anti depressent ssri to kick in and for you to get the benefits. i felt awful starting on the paxil and wanted to quit so bad but i didnt want to feel like i did before i started it either. so i hung in there with alot of support from here and it was well worth it. give it couple more weeks and you should be getting its benefits by then.
good luck and hang in there

Hang in there jane. It took about 4-5 weeks for me to feel the true benefits of the Zoloft. I had some mild side effects at first, but they have pretty much disappeared over time. Good luck.

:)Thank you! It sure is hard waiting this out. I just want to be content and relaxed again. I feel tense and nervous most of the time. It's just wearing me out. This is NOT me at all. Thanks again for the encouragement!

Hi Jane, I could have been reading about myself 7 months ago. I thought I was going crazy. I felt worse when I started zoloft than I did before. I was having panic attacks and anxiety. So I took "the pill." I had the jitters, my hands and feet tingled, couldn't eat, had the sexual side effects, headache, dry mouth. Wow I hadn't read the list of side effects but I was a walking version of them. I just cried and wanted my life back. The dr said to hang in there, so I did. The symptoms one by one went away. I feel fine now and my "pill" is a blessing to me, and my family. :) My only side effect now is insomnia. Even after taking it this long I still struggle. So now I take another "pill" to offset that. Ahhh, getting old.

Hang in there. Things will get better.

Uncgal

I only made it one day on mine. They gave me Celexa and the side effects from one day were so bad I couldn't take another one. I became spacey, lightheaded, nervous, shaky, Anxious, tingly, nauseated and then had diarrea till the next day. I said the heck with that. I am gonna try to tough it out. I will just take a xanax if it gets real bad. I don't know.....I am glad you all have found some good place out of it.:)

I asked this question about two months ago. The thread is pretty informative and I kept a log of my progress every week. Let me find it for you Jane...

you can read it here:
http://www.healthboards.com/boards/showthread.php?t=582020

Anyway, I began at 50mg/day. First week was hell. Anxiety x 100, stomach problems, headaches, feeling hazy and indifferent, restless, etc. That gradually subsided.. a few weeks later I felt ok except for restlessness and headaches.

I moved up to 100mg/day. After about a week on this, anxiety went away, but I'm still very restless, and my short term memory is a wreck, probably due to the restlessness.

I feel time is a lot slower, so that might be due to the anxiety going away. When I was anxious, I would be arguing with myself in my head, thinking too much, etc, and never in the present moment, not being aware of what I was doing, and time flew by. I guess now I just don't know how to code with not being anxious so I can't sit still.

I really don't feel good. This isn't perfect but it sure beats being off drugs.