Ive been off of zoloft for about a week now. how long does it take to fully get out of my system??

Question

i was only on 50 mg.

Answer 1

Though many doctors will say that it is out of your system within two days and are technically right, they fail to understand that you want to know how long you will feel withdrawal symptoms.  Basically this is because the makers of SSRI's refuse to admit there ARE withdrawal symptoms.

These meds can be tremendously helpful and I am not in any way putting them down and in fact am a proponent of psychiatric medications (no nasty emails please, I DO KNOW what I am talking about).

There are, however, withdrawal symptoms and they last about as long as your initial side effect symptoms lasted as well as the time it took for the medicine to be fully effective.  Therefore, that makes your answer approximately a month to six weeks...however, even during that time, they will become less and less bothersome.