benchmarkstatus t1_isbdv0s wrote on October 14, 2022 at 5:49 PM

Reply to comment by ThomasFromOhio in AI Can Offer Insight Into Who Responds to Antidepressants. A new algorithm predicts response to Sertraline with 83 percent accuracy. by Sariel007

What were the withdrawals like? I had been on it for 15 years or so and every time I went off, I’d get these horrible brain zaps if I didn’t perfectly taper off. Finally quit for good six months ago and it left me feeling Kind of weird.

ThomasFromOhio t1_isbf0ut wrote on October 14, 2022 at 5:57 PM

I SOOOO forgot about the brain zaps until first reminded about them by another poster. The brain zaps for sure, but I also had a personality change. Very irritable. You could say good morning and I'd snap at you. Not sure I ever recovered from that 100%. I also had dizziness, and an overall just unwell feeling. Several months after weaning myself "off" I had mild symptoms of the same and kept wondering what was going on and thought of going to the doc until I realized it was the sertraline. Took about a full year for those side affects to finally go away.

Tzayad t1_isbh04d wrote on October 14, 2022 at 6:10 PM

I've always heard of "brain zaps," and I wonder if that's what i was experiencing when I came off of Zoloft.

It wasn't in my brain though, so I didn't connect it right away. I was having weird jolts/tingles traveling down my arms. Was happening for months, then I started on a different anti depressant, and those zaps immediately went away

ThomasFromOhio t1_isbhuqy wrote on October 14, 2022 at 6:16 PM

I would suggest that they were. I also remember to some minor degree jolts running through various parts of my body.