Hi all,

I started taking Sertraline/Zoloft 50 mg around 20th May for my extreme anxiety and depression. About 3.5 weeks in, I began feeling a whole load better, and my doctor recommended I up the dosage to 75mg per day (1 and a half tablets). However, ever since this point, I have begun to feel worse and regress back into some of my pre-Zoloft ways which to me makes no sense at all, even with a dosage shift. I've been taking Zoloft 75mg for around 3 weeks now, but I don't feel like I've truly got better yet with it in that period. I allowed a few weeks for side effects to wear off/adjustment period to a higher dose, but I can't honestly say that it's had much impact at all. What gives? 

In total, from today, I would have been taking Zoloft for 6 weeks since I first started.

Obviously this is a question for my pharmacist/doctor, but I just wanted to see if other people had experienced something like this - do I need to up my dose to 100mg a day to see if this helps, or do I need to ditch Zoloft entirely? The latter option would be a killer blow, especially seeing how long it took me to get past the side effects in the first few weeks.

It honestly feels as though I've done a silly thing in increasing my dosage to 75mg when the 50mgs were working just fine, but then that is what my doctor recommended. Plus, this is something which is common with SSRIs, so I would have had to have done this increase at some point.

Any help would be much appreciated :)