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Zoloft
The conditions and duration of exposure to Zoloft varied greatly, and included (in overlapping categories) clinical pharmacology studies, open and double-blind studies, uncontrolled and controlled studies, inpatient and outpatient studies.
Be sure to tell your doctor what medicines you're taking. If you're taking a medicine called a monoamine oxidase inhibitor or pimozide.
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Side Effects
Zoloft is a drug that is used to treat depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Like other SSRIs, sertraline also is used for treating social anxiety disorder and postmenstrual dysphoric disorder.
Zoloft is not habit-forming and is not associated with weight gain. So talk to your doctor about how Zoloft might help you. Zoloft comes in 25-mg, 50-mg, and 100-mg tablets. You and your doctor can discuss a dose for you.
Following is a list of treatment-emergent adverse events reported during premarketing assessment of Zoloft in clinical trials over 4000 adult subjects except those already listed in the previous tables or elsewhere in labeling.
Your doctor will decide how long you need to be on Zoloft. It's important to keep taking Zoloft as directed. Even if you feel better, you shouldn't stop taking Zoloft without talking to your doctor first.
The invention of Sertraline has been attributed to two scientists at Pfizer: Stephen Werner and William Dzomba. At the time, the notion that the neurotransmitter serotonin and depression might be linked was a fairly new concept.
Suicide remains one of the most urgent public health issues facing the United States. It is the third leading cause of death among adolescents.
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Medication Dosage
Zoloft is the 1 doctor-prescribed brand of its kind. Zoloft has treated more people than any other brands of its kind for 14 years. And Zoloft is available in multiple strengths.
Zoloft works to correct a chemical imbalance in the brain which may be related to symptoms of depression or anxiety. It has been prescribed to millions of people over 13 years.
Table 3 lists the adverse events associated with discontinuation of Zoloft treatment incidence at least twice that for placebo and at least 1% for Zoloft in clinical trials in major depressive disorder.
Zoloft is FDA approved to treat depression, social anxiety disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
Zoloft increases the blood level of pimozide (Orap) by 40%. High levels of pimozide can affect electrical conduction in the heart and lead to sudden death.
Side effects may include dry mouth, insomnia, sexual side effects, diarrhea, nausea and sleepiness. In studies, few people were bothered enough by side effects to stop taking Zoloft.
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