Weaning off years of Zoloft

I've been on Zoloft 50 mg per day for about 5 years. It did help my generalized anxiety for most of that time. Negative effects have really intensified over the last year and include pretty chronic diarrhea (controlled with OTC med), weight gain, lack of energy and excessive daytime sleepiness. Also, the last 6 months or so I've started experiencing depression pretty often which is new to me. I decided to start taking 25 mg a day for a couple of weeks and then wean off. I would appreciate hearing back from anyone who has had a similar experience and how cutting down and eventual discontinuing this medication went. Thank you.

Post Edited (livinsimply) : 11/20/2021 6:53:49 AM (GMT-7)

I was on Zoloft at one point. I got up as high as 150 mg. I felt like it was not doing very much good so I went off of it. I did not have diarrhea or any other noticeable side effects as I went off of it. But I did so extremely slowly, over a period of months. Maybe that helped avoid withdrawal effects.