Increasing zoloft dose - will startup side effects re-appear?

[bozo]

Hi all,
started on 25mg Zoloft (slow start due to potential of short term increase in panic symptoms), it's been a week now. Slight increase in anxiety, but mostly nausea that lasts most of the day.
I've tried taking on full stomach etc and it helps a little, but nausea is still there.
If that's only going to last another week, then I can struggle through that.

But my doc's plan is that I will up dose to 50mg very soon, and then 100mg after that.
Will I get these startup symptoms all over again? If, so are they as bad?
Or is the intial startup the worst bit, and then maybe milder side-effects each dose increase? That's what I'm hoping.

Thanks!!

[gypsylee]

Hi and welcome :)

I typed a reply and my finger hit something on the iPad and it disappeared!

Anyway, I said it’s hard to say how you’ll react because brain chemistry is so individual and complex. I stay on SSRIs (Prozac) even if I feel ok, just to avoid that initial period. I don’t think the symptoms will be so bad with the increse in dosage but I really don’t know.

Good luck!
Gypsy x