Quitting Sertraline

I'm 50 years old and have been on Sertraline since about 1995 to 1997. I finally came to the conclusion that I am better off without it. (I know. I'm not sure why I stayed on it for so long) I have seen a lot of information on the Internet to finally make me cynical of the medical "profession" and the drug "community" to make me realize that it's a multi-billion dollar business. As this is my tenth day after I took the very last dose, I still do feel a little lightheaded, but much better than last week when I had some headaches, diarrhea, and a felt a little nervous. I have read this forum and really hurt to think some people are addicted to this drug, and many others, but cannot stop. My heart goes out to you. For every 100 people with a question here, it seems like there's 100 "experts" with different answers. I did taper off the drugs, so that is the only advice I will give you.

You might want to check out the following. It's a very long documentary, but when there, you will find muh shorter ones, too. God bless you all with great health!

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Oops, Sorry. Here's the link to that I was talking about. Actually, this is a better, shorter one by a former drug sales executive who's niece died by prescription drugs: youtube.com/watch?v=KFbs8s3VI6M

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Joe, thank you for the great and informative post. I'm glad you were able to get off of the Sertraline so successfully and yes, tapering is the best and safest way to do it.

If someone stops abruptly, it can cause rebound effects that may be worse than the symptoms they started taking it to treat.

Learn more Sertraline details here.

I was on it for about 5 years, when I stopped taking it and, at that time, I didn't know everything I later studied about medications, so I just stopped it abruptly and it took me several months to start feeling normal again.

Does anyone have any questions or comments?

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