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Disk record keeping... 100 mg Zoloft as of 1/1/2012

Hi, just adding to this thread for record keeping purposes.

after 10 days at 75 mg Zoloft and no problems, i went up to 100mg (on the 1st of January... ha! easy to remember!)

this is my 7th day at 100 mg so i am at steady state.

Possibly related symptoms/events:

General sedation & increased need for sleep:
i have been incredibly sleepy and needing lots of sleep (9+ hours) both with 75mg but especially early on in the 100mg increase. several times i have literally passed out in front of the tv, despite having had extra strong coffee in the effort to see the end of this or that movie. other times i couldn't keep my eyes open to start with. one night mom made me tea when i started getting sleepy. i was "in and out" - fell asleep with the cup in my hand poured it on myself! so the tea did wake me up, but not in the intended (or pleasant) fashion!

Blood Pressure decrease:
of note, it seems to be messing with my bp... once when i felt faint even sitting up in bed, mom brought the machine to my bed... i had 93/59! recently (since starting Zoloft) my bp has been running between 110/65 and 120/75. before zoloft, i was in the borderline high (130/80 -140/90) range. so this is good as long as i restabilize and don't have more of those steep drops. or i'll drop some time when i'm not sitting down!

this happened last time i took zoloft too, but that time, i had just become much less sedentary than i was (started working + commute with footwork), so i attributed the bp changes to that.

ironically SSRIs are most often used to help treat low bp! (however they can cause changes in either direction.)

Headaches (minor:
this week i also had "twinge" headaches... usu. brief ... 10 mins - 1 hour. low-moderate intensity pain but otherwise characteristic migraine type: unilateral (temporal) and throbbing. they could be unrelated twinges as i will soon be due for the usual monthly migraines.
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