Reply to Dialing back Zoloft

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "Dialing back Zoloft"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid was on a high dose of Zoloft for a little over a year (175mg) and it took us 9 months to taper it down.  When we got down to 100mg I noticed more smiles and energy.  The taper went smoothly until we got to 50mg then kid had lots of withdrawal symptoms, vision issues, brain zaps, etc. so we stayed at 50 for a month, then went down in increments of 5mg over months.  The final 15 mg we went to liquid and went down very slowly.  Kid has been off of it now for 6 months and is doing great.  Good luck, and be patient with this.  If your kid has been stable for a while, he deserves to have a trial without meds.  You can always go back on a lower dose.  My kid has lost weight and gotten more active off the meds.  And has had and continues to have lots of therapy to address anxiety, etc.[/quote]

Thank you so much for this! Harvard published a guide for tapering each medication based on starting dose but it seemed a bit quick. They had each dose cut by mg. Your experience above seems like a better model for our situation, especially considering the length of time he's been at a high dose.
I'm so happy to hear about the positive outcome for your child! We will look out for the side effects, too.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics