This spring I was prescribed sertraline (Zoloft) for anxiety. I took it for 2 months, starting with 25mg for the first few weeks, then upping to 50mg. I had some side effects that didn't go away even after 2 months, mainly gastric issues (stomach pains, reflux, persistent diarrhea by the end), so after discussing with my psychiatrist I stopped taking it on June 20th. It is unfortunate because the medication *was* effective in reducing my anxiety and upping my energy levels otherwise. It took about a month after stopping for my stomach to mostly settle down again.

But another issue is hair loss. I started noticing I was shedding more hair than usual sometime in June and it continues to this day. I didn't discuss it with my psychiatrist at the time because at first I didn't realize it could be related. When I started to get really bothered by it later in the summer, I looked it up and found out hair loss is an uncommon side effect of sertraline. It is said to be reversible after stopping medication. It's been almost 4 months since I stopped the medication but it feels like I'm still losing similar amounts of hair. I looks like I've lost half of my hair altogether (I had very thick hair before and now it's thin). I'm worried that maybe my hair loss is caused by something else and sertraline is just the coincidental scapegoat? Has anyone here experienced hair loss on SSRIs and how did it resolve?