Zoloft dosage children
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If the doctor prescribed that dosage, then I would trust him/her. Zoloft is typically prescribed from 50-200mg, so your son is taking a 'normal' dosage in my opinion. I was on Zoloft a couple of years ago and had no major problems coming off of it. Just ensure when it is time to come off the medication work with your doctor and taper down slowly.
If you feel at any time negative and/or harmful thoughts about your children, go to the hospital or call 911 okay? You emotionally abandoned your children by what you said. Do you know how that will affect a child?
Get some help now, if you can't take care of them and have no family, call child protective services until you can get healthy again. You might be able to fix the damage, but emotionally abusing a child is NEVER okay.
Hi There
I suffer from depression and am on 200mg Zoloft daily. I increased my dosage after giving birth to my daughter because I (of course) had antenatal depression. Every day I wake up with nervous tension and it is driving me nuts! I was wondering if this is because I am taking a high dosage of Zoloft? I am scared to go down because I don't want to be in that depressive place.
Also I have been taking a trazodone 50 mg at night and it really was a struggle to sleep when it usually knocks me out. Is it the Zoloft dosage increase?
After five weeks, my depression and anxiety seemed to be a little better and then a few hours ago, I had a meaningless thought about my children and WHAM, Huge anxiety attack. I was on zoloft a while back for years. It controlled my anxiety and depression very well then. I was surprised by the anxiety attack. I thought after five weeks it would be controlled.
My questions are: Shouldn't I be feeling better by now? Do you think my dosage is too low this time.
The typical dosage range for Zoloft is between 50 to 200 Mgs a day. The dosage depends on the person. Each of us has different levels at which any given AD medication may be effective. The maximum effective dosage for Zoloft is 200Mgs a day. That simply means that regardless of the patient that any more than 200 Mgs a day will not produce a response if less than 200 day has failed to produce a response.
I can understand your concern and it is VERY justified.
I looked up Zoloft on the internet and it appears as if the 25 mg is the lowest dosage. I still think it is too high for her - would her doctor consider only half a pill instead of the full dose? Perhaps another SSRI would be more beneficial. Also, anxiety is best treated by a multi-modal approach and as the above poster stated - therapy might be of help. It took us three different medications and several dosages before we found the "right" meds for our child.
Our psychologist claims that the correct medication in the correct dosage will not change you, but correct you. Recently there have been research studies on SSRI's (and Zoloft is one of these) which has shown that children who do not take medication and suffer from severe anxiety actually lose "brain cells"; while those children taking the SSRI did not lose any brain cells. But, this research is very new and as far as I know, it has not been proven to be "fact".
Ooops, I was going to briefly touch on the Sulpiride. This medication is not used here in the US, so I don't have any first hand experience with it, but I know it is an anti-psychotic medication. Again,in MY opinion...I don't care for the use of antipsychotic meds in some situations. I think they are being overly prescribed as an adjunct therapy before other options are explored.
Doctors rarely start you out on such a high dosage, they prefer to start with the lowest dosage and if needed increase it with time. Also, even lay people know that you should never just stop these medications cold turkey.....bad withdrawals. Psychiatrist are the most knowledgeable when it comes to these types of medications, I would make an appt. to see one and hold off on starting such a high dosage until you speak to him.
What I can tell you is that as someone who has a crazy schedule I watch late night TV while I stretch on the floor, and there is an advertisement right now for a class action suit for people who took Zoloft and had children with birth defects and other problems. Law firms usually don't get involved unless they think they're going to win or have already won because of a review done of the drug.
You say you were taking Zoloft at 2Mgs a day? I didn't even know Zoloft came in such a low dosage. I used to take Zoloft at 200Mgs a day. Lowest dosage is 50mgs a day and even that dosage is too low for most people.
I asked my doc today at my weekly checkup if we should try to raise my adderall dosage, and she said that maybe we should try to lower my zoloft dosage instead - that might be what is causing my tiredness (when combined with the adderall). Since I've been on 100mg daily for YEARS and it works very well for me, I'm frightened to lower my zoloft dosage.
Personally, I was on a dosage of Zoloft for 10+ years that worked amazing for me. A year and a half ago I abruptly lowered my dosage by taking 1/3 of what I was used to. I've had problems on and off since then, with anxiety & panic returning in full force the past week. I met with my Dr. and I'm working my way back up to the dosage I used to take, to get rid of these nasty side effects of dropping my dosage abruptly.
Hi again all,
Just a quick one.. gone up to 25mgs (4th day ) and have noticed 2-3hrs later I may get woozy and shaky.. though my heart rate is fine and I don't feel anxious. I am prone to low blood sugar if I don't eat which will produce the same feeling.. I did read somewhere that Zoloft can affect your blood glucose levels..
Is this a side effect of the tablets.. kinda assume it is.. not a stranger to feeling shaky..
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