noticing no difference when on or off medication

[legowelt]

I've been taking zoloft for about 2 years now. I was on 50 mg and upped to a 100 after I started experiencing panic attacks. Now since i've had the panic attacks and upped my dosage i've been monitoring my symptoms more closely, whereas before I more or less didn't experience symptoms, I just assumed my medicine worked. After a few somewhat trying months i've been feeling better and after about a week of not getting my script refilled I feel the same. I would rather not have to take medicine, i've started therapy which helped a lot and started taking different supplements which could be helping too. It seems like the zoloft's effects are minimal at this moment? I did experience the "brain zaps" from the withdrawls, but those have gone down. I just don't want to start feeling like shit then end up kicking myself over it. A lot of people here choose not take meds?

[alankay]

Yeah the zaps will fade away. If the med does not help even at a higher dose, drop it and try another or even another class of med. Not all benefit from ssri's.
Some then try an snri or TCA or perhaps a benzo. Alankay

[legowelt]

I don't have panic attacks anymore, I get the initial onset but they go on from there. I guess knowing about the condition has helped the most. I had spent the past 3 years not really knowing what the problem was, it took a panic attack for me to get CBT and learn how to deal with it.

[Kaybee]

You may be one of the lucky ones who experiences no withdrawal syndrome from stopping an SSRI. But you may want to pay attention to how you're feeling in the next few weeks. Sometimes a withdrawl symptom may hit and you will want to recognize it for what it is. That is rare but it can happen. Best to be prepared because meds can be tricky beggars and you don't want to think you've developed new anxiety or depression when it's just the last bits of discontinuation rearing its head. But you're probably already out of the woods.