Posted by TimJim on September 13, 2000, at 1:06:44
I have been on zoloft off and on for a period of 7 years and it has been better than most. But, on zoloft I have noticed a disturbed sleep pattern which includes a lack of dreaming. I cannot sleep soundly it seems. I just have a waking period of at most a couple of hours and then I become tired. Usually in the afternoon I just have to lie down and crash for awhile but a solid sleep is never-ever at hand. It is as though I never get the steady deep quality sleep.
There are other side effects but this one seems to be the worst.
I have had several sleep studies done and all indicated I did have a sleep pattern but it also shows a wave pattern one expects to have when taking zoloft.
One study had to be scrapped because they failed to tell me that I had to be off the medication.
Doctors have confused the studies as suggesting that I am nothing more than a sleepyhead.
They could not be more wrong.
One doctor had suggested that I was suffering from a lack of REM sleep and it is causing me irritation in the daytime associated with anger and aggression problems. I was tried on sleep aids but they failed because all they ever do is make me more groggy the next day. nothing seems to work, that is until I come off of the zoloft and then I start having vibrant dreams which last forever.
But then the last time I came off of zoloft, the depression came back so I had to go back on it.
I hate this but nothing else seems have worked.
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