Zoloft and vision problems
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First, I do have health anxiety, for which I take medicine (Zoloft) and also get professional help.
Lately, my anxiety revolves around my vision. It started with that weird afterimage that a handful of other people on this board experience.
But now I can't stop noticing all sorts of things about my eyes! Suddenly I see my nose, floaters, and veins, and then, starting yesterday, my eyelid began twitching.
Is it possible that I'm just focusing too much on my eyes?
s also causing me vision problems. Like the other day in class my vision got foggy and nothing felt real and it only lasted for like a few seconds. That's happened a few other times but now my eyes are more sensative to light. Last night I woke up in the middle of the night and every time I would fall back asleep I would wake up a second later feeling like nothing is real and the lights getting brighter. I only got 5 hours of sleep and my vision feels off today. Please what is happening?
I too have had vision problems with anxiety. I have just recently begun to have panic attacks while driving. I thought it might be my eyes so I had a eye exam done and they changed my glasses prescription. (slightly) Its one of the 1st things that happen when I feel anxious. Everything gets blurry and I do see floaters sometimes. Its a horrible feeling. I have not tried any drugs. Trying to figure it out myself. Some days in the car good...some bad. That is the only time I feel like this.
How long does anxiety last? I had my first anxiety attack last year went to the er an they said it was anxiety.
Some of the symptoms (especially blurred vision and dizziness) you have mentioned do sound like side effects of Zoloft and Wellbutrin. You might have to look into this, depending upon the temporal association of the symptoms with Zoloft and Wellbutrin therapy. But more importantly, it seems you need to rule out any neurological causes such as vitamin deficiencies and some more.
You may also need to monitor your progress as far as major depression and anxiety symptoms are concerned.
and today at work i started feeling dizzy...vision blurred and i saw squiggly shapes and lines in my field of vision...then i got that displaced feeling that usually comes with a panic attack..i sat down and it went away excepy my headache is worse and i feel tired...i was feeling good before this occurred....does this sound like a weird zoloft reaction????
I feel okay too when not in the car but I get worked up just thinking about driving. Once I get into the car and drive a while, I start fidgeting, turning heater up and down, window up and down, sunglasses on and off, I feel like I cannot focus. I do okay on side streets but cannot do the freeway or long streches of road. Your eye doc said your eyes weren't working together?? What exactly does that mean?
I have been tested for everything, you name it, I have had the test done! All negative!
I started Zoloft in July for a new diagnosis panic attacks and ocd. My primary care doctor prescribed it until I could get an appointment with a psychiatrist. After seeing th psychiatrist he switched me to Prozac. I went from Prozac 10 mg to 15mg with no issues. When he increased my dose to 20 mg I began to experience frequent urge to urinated and burning in my pelvic area. My primary care checked me for UTI and yeast infection.
The only thing that has changed healthwise is that I was taking Zoloft for a couple of months and then discontinued it. I never had any side effects from the medication, and no problems with it when I stopped taking it. Does anyone else have this problem? Could it be a nerve problem in my neck? I want to see a doctor, but I don't want to have to be referred 20 different times. I'd like to go straight to a Dr. who has heard of this.
because it caused my heart problems to act up and I ended up in the hospital again with an unstable heart beat and had to get my pacer replaced along with the leads early, now I have a huge wound in my chest and more pain than I can stand. On the FDA site, I found where Zoloft along with opiates will cause toxicity, which is what has been happening for the past year or more.
About 6 months later, while on a relatively low dose of Zoloft and nothing else, she developed a sudden partial color (green) vision loss in that same left eye. JUST that eye. The opthlamologist at the time thought perhaps the Zoloft caused this. A neuro-opthalmologist said she did not think it was due to the Zoloft, nor due to mitochondrial dysfunction (my daughter has not been evaluated for that). Also, did not think this was due to nutritional deficiency (due to intestinal malabsorption).
Zoloft or sertaline weaning can cause various withdrawal symptoms like cold sweats, shock like feeling, and difficulty in swallowing properly or choking particularly if you try eating large bites of food. You can get double vision, and bleeding issues. You need to be careful with sudden stopping as serious complications like edema or water collection in lungs and heart failure can develop. You can consult your neurologist on monitoring of this withdrawal to avoid precipitation of these.
Are you going to regular intervals for counseling while you have been back on the Zoloft? I have been on and off of it over the years and while it really helps me, I also know that is only half of the battle....going to counseling and discussing the anxiety is the other half in my experience with it.
will increase to 50mg,
I was on zoloft b4 and it changed my life, short version, I was on xanax a number of years, I would not take another drug, finally gave in and took zoloft, was easy to stop xanax and then the zoloft, (ALONG with therapy) , I got my life back.
this time I am off xanax and just started zoloft last week and will increase this week, I have been journalling about it.
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