11 weeks on sertraline

Hi thanks lovey, 

Not really been back to the doctors as i dont worry anymore lol will make an app though see what they think. I was off work 7 weeks and 2 weeks for my little girl being born so work is just knackerd me out i think. Im a bin man so is heavy on the feet and limbs. I may not need that increase but i just feel something is missing just the little things. Other than that it has worked wonders for me x

Hi there you have done the right thing, going through side effects only makes you stronger its an amazing feature the human body has to make us feel the anxiety and such strange symptoms that no one would understand. Wishing you all the luck and happiness x

Hi there, thanks for the message. Yeah 11 weeks is still a little early but i didnt want to say much on that as if the newbies see our comments. But you out of all people have made me feel very good about myself since i joined this side so thankyou so much. You dont realise how certain words can change someones day. X

thanks scott,

it's really important for me that i can share my story and experiences with you guys on here, i thought i was seriously off my box and i was the only one, i felt mentally broken, and it was starting to show physically with me too, it's a massive comfort coming on here, the days where i was really bad, i'm not sure if you can see my older posts from when i first joined, but every day was a new challenge, new feelings, new thoughts, and not good ones to start with! coming on here made me realise i wasn't the only one, and that made me feel so much more secure and safe too knowing i wasn't being judged no matter how crazy my post was.  when i realised i was getting better, the first thing i did was post on here because i wanted everyone to know that there is that light at the end of the tunnel, it's just a long journey to it but once you're there, somehow everything starts to kind of fit back together again if you know what i mean, strange but true :-)

 

I know what u mean, this is the best forum I have been on and one of the reasons I have persevered. The others I saw were quite negative and made me feel worse x

Such a shame that, some employers suck lol. I work for a council so health and safety comes first. Before i went back i had to have a few meetings with the works doctors. They was amazing to be honest. While i was off work for 7 weeks there was 3 other people suffering the same thing but some was off 5 or 6 months. I went back a little to early but im fighting through the tiredness like a soldier haha

hi joanne,

yes the darreah is a side effect of sertraline. the being in a good mood one minute and then horrible the next, also intrusive thoughts plagueing me all day long some days, i can relate to this so well!! i struggled with this before i went on sertraline, when i'd found the right dose for me, i was waking up every morning feeling great, luckily that has continued for me, but i do get very tired and constant yawning still!! but it's worth all that for my improvement in day to day mood :-)

 

Great comment couldnt of put it better myself. Tiredness and yawning is a big thing i get but its worth it. I start work at 7 am and by 12 or 1 im sooooooo tired but its soooo worth it 

Thanks for your reply! Did you have diareah? How long did it last if you did? How long was it before you felt a bit better on the tabs? 😐

i've been quite lucky on that front, i've only had a couple of times where i've had to make a mad dash so i can't complain too much.  the only thing really that cripplied me to start with was the migranes, i had them bad enough some days where i was off work but i've not had a bad one for some months now, i do get back headaches, but not as severe as a migrane i wouldn't say.  i lost my appetite completely when i first went on them and lost over a stone, i've managed to maintain that weight loss, how i don't know, because i'm always eating, i've always loved my food :-)  alot of people have reported insomnia, again i'm lucky on that score too, i've never had any trouble getting to sleep from day 1 but i never took my meds at night, i researched alot about sertraline before i took it and i believe the best time of the day is first thing, for two reasons, you're less likely to forget to take it and it shouldn't mess up your sleeping patterns either, and if you take at more or less the same time every morning, you're getting the consistent levels into your system at the same time everyday, that worked for me, some people split their dose and took half in the morning and the other half at night, i've never tried it. i yawn all the time, even when i'm not tired and sometimes conversation can be a problem but it doesn't happen all day, intermitent i would say!! still annoying though.  also at night when i'm watching TV i get tired and start to nod off, i start with like electric shocks running up and down my legs, like i need to stretch them out or something, feels really uncomfortable and sometimes painful but as soon as i get in bed i fall asleep pretty quickly and easily. my moods have levelled out now, i used to dread waking up wondering what mood i was in and i could tell straight away the minute i woke up and if i was bad, that was it for the whole day and i just couldn't lift myself out of it and i didn't smile at all, i would tend to just mind my own business in work and not socialise at all, i couldn't face it, needed to just get my job done and get off home somedays because i don't get sick pay, being off isn't an option for me unfortunately.  i'm quite lucky that i work by myself most of the time so i don't have to speak to anyone if i don't want to, so at the time, that suited me just fine!! i didn't want to be around anyone, and going home would be stressful too, this had taken it's toll on my relationship also, my boyfriend has been amazing throughout and taken alot of sh*t from me over the months but has stuck with me though thick and thin, somedays i was great and then the next minute i'd be crying, having a go, being really nasty and mean to him, and that just isn't me at all. totally changed my character and my personality which was scary at the time.  i usually know myself very well, but during this time, i didn't know myself at all, i was very unpredictable and didn't like who or what i had become, i knew i had to do someting about it otherwise i would lose everything that meant the world to me. i'm so glad i did, i can't rate sertraline enough, i've said this so many times but it's true, i feel it has saved me :-)