zoloft and alcohol

really recommend never to drink while taking this medication, within one night my life will never be the same. after memory lost and un able to puzzle the pieces together i was taken advantage off and missled by two males. i cant bring myself to exsplain what happen, but girls and boys belive what has been written on this page, it is true. if only i had listen and not binge drink that night i maybe able to sleep better at night.

I wish I had known of these side effects a long time ago. My life has been ruined by this combination and I just thought I was starting to get messed up in the head. 9 year relationship over and friends who don't want to know me anymore!

One shot will not cause you to forget the entire night. Exaggerate much?

Im on zoloft and lamictal, whenever I go out drinking I don't get drunk for some strange reason. I can drink and drink and drink, but won't feel anything... maybe its the lamictal, I dont know.

I am the same way when i drink since I have been on zoloft for my depression. I black out and out of nowhere in violent mood swings. I have woken up to find that I got extremely beaten up because I was an emtional roller coaster. I have even slapped my boyfriend in a black out. I now have quite drinking due to the increasing number of bad inccidents due to the mixture of alcohol and zoloft. I was never like this before being on zoloft. i hated my self more after these nights that were scattered with blood, anger, and pain. They don't mix. To happy new year.

I always felt guilty for what happened that almost ruined my marriage. I couldn't understand how or why I could do what I did. I couldn't explain it. I honestly felt like I had an outer body experience. I was looking down helplessly watching me and my actions. I was told, I was telling the bull sh*t excuses. I am so relieved to know others had similar episodes. It was draining my life to think I would never be forgiven. I know better now!

No, that happens to me too. I just wanted to share a comment. Two things you should never do, 

 

1. Adjust your meds on your own

2. Drink on high dosages of Zoloft. 

 

I recently went to a family wedding in Jamaica. Seeing my family is insanely stressful for me, so I decided to take 50mg more than usual of my Zoloft starting about a week before I left. This left me at 200mg. I kept going from perfectly fine to blacked out in seconds. I cried at the dinner table after the wedding, Among other embarrassing things. I knew I wasn't supposed to adjust my meds but I did. BIGGEST. MISTAKE. EVER. Even when I started taking Zoloft a few years ago at 50mg, I blacked out for a while before I could regain control. I've damaged a lot of relationships from doing this so I have decided the Zoloft is more trouble than its worth. Most of my anxiety issues are resolved so hoping my doctor agrees!! I am NOT a heavy drinker, but I'm 23 and I want to be able to have a glass of wine when I want to. 

It makes me feel so much better that I am not the only one that this happens to. Thanks for sharing guys!! 

Vanbibber, I wasn't sure at first if it was just exaggeration, but sadly it is not.

So glad I found these answers. I have been using Zoloft for 5 months or better. I drink several beers with my neighbors a couple times a week and sometimes drink alot more on weekends and such. Several times in these months I just blacked out. Saying and doing things to people I love and care about. My girlfriend took the brunt of these blackouts several times and after this Saturday broke up with me I think for good. Plus I pissed off all of my neighbors. My sister a nurse asked me if I was still taking that I had started taking months before when we lost my mother suddenly just after losing our Father suddenly. We jumped on the computer and started googling the effects of the medication and my alcohol consumption and here it all is. I am now in the process of breaking my 50 milligram pills in half 225 milligram pills and taking those for 2 weeks and then one 25 milligram pill every two days and then so on. I have written and apologize personally to everyone involved in these blackouts but am still working on trying to get my girlfriend back who I know love me dearly and I loved her as well. So please please please be very careful while taking this medication and consuming alcohol I would not suggest it at all actually. It could just ruin your life and make you lose some people you really care about

Alcohol and Zoloft, just do not mix. For starters, alcohol belongs to a family of drugs called antidepressants. If you are taking Zoloft, whose main ingredient is sertraline, chances are you're trying to fight chronic depression.

Been through exactly the same due to mixing the two

I'm so glad I'm not going insane....I went to a works do a few weeks ago took three times my prescription by accident 150 mg rams had a drink and apparently went mental I remember nothing but I'm now looking at losing everything...at least I know it wasn't me know.

Im a 19 year old girl and i recently just started taking zoloft... DO NOT DRINK ON ZOLOFT... this is the worst thing you can do... i had only a few beers and a sip of my friends drink and a rip of maarijuana... i started to act aggresively told my fried i was going to scratch her eyes out... ruined my realtion ship with my boyfriend from  a voicemail. thought i went to hell, was screaming for help in the bathroom at a party because i thought i was being dragged to hell... i i wouldn't mix drugs and alchol with zoloft medication you are due to have a mental break down. i scared all my friends, and told my parents i did heroine ( which i did not ) when they picked me up from the party i was screaming i needed to go to the hospital because i was falling in and out of consiousness, i think i accidently overdoced. please be careful on this medicine, if your going to take anti-depressents comitt to being completley sober.. im gong to the doctors to tell her about my episode and see if i can get perscribed something else instead.

31 female been on zoloft a few months @ 150 mg. Yes. Zoloft and drinking is a very dangerous mix for me. Twice I have almost destroyed my marriage and evidently called my family and said crazy thing. I was over emotional and rage like . I have decided that I will no longer drink for it is not healthy for me!

I'm glad to have come across this, I am currently a college student and started taking zoloft about two years ago now. I have gone out and drank heavily (multiple drinks, shots, mixes..) unfortunately I found out the hard way and have blacked out on those nights of heavy drinking. I became almost bipolar; I had unpredictable mood swings, became violent, and said horrible things to people I love. The worst part is waking up the next morning not remembering any of the horrible things I did, and hearing stories of things I can't believe I did or said. It's like waking up from a nightmare to hear outrageous things you did and had no control over.

I recommend not HEAVILY drinking on Zoloft. I have had many good nights just sipping on a couple beers or a glass of wine. It was the heavy drinking and mixing of drinks with liquor that caused my horrible blackout nights.

I've been taking Zoloft for 3-4 months. I'm on a small (50mg) dose in comparison to many others. I've always been fond of having a few beers a couple nights a week. I've noticed, however, that any more than 3-4 and I have no recollection whatsoever of the entire night. I've not, thankfully, done anything dangerous or stupid - at least that I know of - during those blackouts, but unlike in times where I reached my alcohol limit before starting Zoloft, I don't recall having even recognised that I was drunk. That, I think, is the most dangerous bit - you loose the inhibition that would, otherwise, make you realise you were drunk and shouldn't have anymore.