50 mg Zoloft once a day. It was good for a while, but the weight gain and no feeling of emotion (i.e. no ups and downs just -----------------------).
Doc says cut the pill inhalf for 3 days and you’ll be fine. I call bullshit. A good friend did this with Lexapro and went through hell for 2 weeks.
Would this titration be more effective to quell the nastiness of the withdrawl?:
Cut pill in half for 10 days, then half of a half for another 10 days?
OR
Cute a 1/4 off pill for a week, then another 1/4 off for one week…then 1/4 for a week and then nothing? Will this do anything to quell the ill effects?
This is NOT advice. This is simply telling you what I did. I just stopped taking it. After a day or two of feeling weird, I was fine. Better in fact than when I was taking it, as I think it had stopped working for me. I had been on 100mg/day for social phobia/anxiety. I missed a couple days by accident. I decided to skip the next few just to see how I felt. After week off, I felt so good, much better than I had felt when I was taking it.
When my sister came off of Lexapro, she had a terrible time. She tried coming off slowly and it was agonizing. I think Lexapro is a much more difficult drup to stop taking.
You’re on a relatively low dose of Zoloft, so you shouldn’t have as much of a problem as your friend. I’ve been on both 100s and 50s; when I went off my 50s, the doc told me to cut the pill in half for a week, then take the half-pill every other day for a week, then stop. Zoloft doesn’t stay in your system nearly as long as the other brands, so you should be just fine.