Zoloft question

Faith224

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Joined : Sep 2011

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Posted 9/26/2018 2:52 AM (GMT 0)

Hi everyone,

I’ve been on Zoloft since experiencing depression and severe anxiety during pregnancy. It worked really well when I hit 50 mg, but came back with a vengeance during the postpartum period. I bumped up my meds to 75 mg, and while it helped for a bit, it stopped being effective. My psychiatrist encouraged me to increase my dose and says it will be effective once I hit a therapeutic level. My concern is that I will need to keep increasing every few months, I don’t want to because the side effects are awful. Curious if anyone finds that a med loses effectiveness so quickly-could it actually be that I haven’t hit my therapeutic dose?

Minnesota

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Posted 9/26/2018 3:26 AM (GMT 0)

Interesting you bring this up as I have been on zoloft as well, and have increased a couple times with mixed results. I started back in February of this year at only 12.5 mg given my sensitivity to medication. I bumped up to 25 mg a month later, and started seeing some benefit. But, not enough to stand pat, so I bumped up to 37.5 mg end of July. I had 6 weeks of really great mental health on this dose, but have had a bit more GAD recently as compared to those 6 weeks. It seems to help depression a bit better than GAD from my opinion. I really haven't had many side effects when I increase the dose outside of some insomnia which I can curb by taking klonopin during that period. Like you, my Psy wants to me to bump up to 50 now to see if a therapeutic dose can be reached. Am I better now than I was back before I ever started taking Z? Yes, but I would like to see more improvement of course. So.....since I am on a low dose of Z now I figure I have some room to work with. Really hoping you hit the right dose. I guess since you have had some success to some degree it is worth trying to bump up now versus starting over with a new medication.

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