Zoloft can wear off and patients can suddenly find themselves with a return of their original symptoms. Ten percent of patients on Zoloft have tremors. These are some of the more severe side effects that are showing us that the normal functioning of the brain is impaired by these antidepressants. The most common physical symptom is dizziness, and patients often describe feeling like they have water sloshing around inside of their head. They can have trouble with balance and walking straight.
Some patients have to take to bed because they feel so terrible.
And many patients with these withdrawal symptoms will feel very emotional, very tearful and anxious. The greatest risk here is that the patient and the doctor don't know about withdrawal and confuse these symptoms, particularly the emotional symptoms, for a return of the original psychiatric symptoms that the patient went on the drugs for. So this is really a serious difficulty that patients can get into if they don't know and their doctor doesn't know about withdrawal. I feel great and would like to stop. If her doctor doesn't know anything about withdrawal, then she might want to get a second opinion.