Guest guest Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 My daughter is taking zoloft for her OCD. She started on 25 mg, and we increased to 50 mg. Her OCD is well controlled at this dosage. Since we increased to the 50 mg, it seems as though she is more agitated and angry than before. Has anyone else experienced these symptoms with zoloft? It is so hard to tell what is normal teenage stuff and what is OCD or medication. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 How high was the dose. We started at 12mg and increased very slowly. With each increase I saw she had very restless legs and hands (she would shake them and say I feel like I have to do this) in the evening. This was always a time she had increased anxiety, so although somewhat distrubing to watch shaking her legs it went away as she got use to the medication (maybe a week). My daughter never and I mean never got up to urinate until she went on zoloft. I haven't even mentioned it to the psychiatrist. I guess I prefer that then the panic at night she had thinking about school. I have tried to cut back on having her have milk at bedtime which she likes. She has been on zoloft for about 8 months she is 12 years old and up to 75mg. I am not sure the increase from 50 - 75 mg made much of a difference in outburst behaviors (hoarding type outburts where she feels she has to get something usually) but the panic and anxiety does seem reduced. For some reason our child psychiatrist only wants to increase zoloft for pure anxiety or depression and does not want to see if outbursts are reduced with another increase. Good luck! Pam > > Hi all- > > I'm new to this list. My seven year old daughter has just recently > been tentatively > diagnosed with OCD by her pediatrician, and is waiting (a month!) to > get in to see > someone at the UIC anxiety clinic. In the meanwhile, she was > prescribed Zoloft by her > pediatrician in the hopes of making things a little better for her > while we were > waiting. She's been taking it for 4 days now, and it has had some > unwelcome side > effects. The two that concern me are sleeplessness (which we're > hoping to abate by > giving her the dose in the morning as opposed to the evening), and > not-quite- > making-it to the bathroom when she gets up at night. She ends up > crying & wet a few > steps from the toilet. Two nights in a row this has happenned to her > now, and I have > to assume it's the medication since this hasn't happenned before now > in a couple of > years. > > I also have a call into her pediatrician about this, but I was just > wondering if anyone > went through similar side effects with their children, and whether > they abated with > time or whether they ultimately changed meds as a result. > > Thanks for your time. I look forward to reading this group more. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 24, 2010 Report Share Posted June 24, 2010 The same thing happened to my daughter on Zoloft when she was 12/13, once we got up to about 50mg the bad thoughts flooded her. We switched to Prozac 20mg for about a yr and are now down to 10mg and she is doing really well! > > My daughter is taking zoloft for her OCD. She started on 25 mg, and we increased to 50 mg. Her OCD is well controlled at this dosage. Since we increased to the 50 mg, it seems as though she is more agitated and angry than before. Has anyone else experienced these symptoms with zoloft? It is so hard to tell what is normal teenage stuff and what is OCD or medication. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 25, 2010 Report Share Posted June 25, 2010 We absolutely did with our son at age 9. Anything over 50 mg does it for us- aggitated, angry, stealing, lying, swearing, fighting- general sociopathic behavior. The higher the dose the worse the symptoms- not so bad at 50 but terrible at 75 and worse at 50 than 37.5. The bad part for us was that he needed 100 to even touch his OCD so we were kind of stuck for a while. We have been weaning down for several years and he just went OFF a couple weeks ago- still doing well from OCD standpoint. (now if there was just something to treat a teenage attitude) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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