3 days on setraline and it’s hell. I want to stop
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I am on s 50mg dose of Setraline and have been for 3 days now. Today will be the fourth. my anxiety levels are way beyond what they normally are and why i started taking them in the first place. Even basic tasks that i could easily cope with 4 days ago now seem beyond me. I've seen lots of people say ride it out but i think i'd rather go back to
how i was and try and manage this with counselling. i'll be speaking to my doctor today. If i do stop can i expect withdrawl symptoms after only 3 days?
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theanxientist
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i should add that one day one of taking these they made me feel very weird and i had a panic attack. Might have been unrelated to the pills but I'd only ever had one before.
laura25070 theanxientist
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hi
im on week 8 today and they do make your anxiety alot worse i have thought about stopping them aswell but ive kept going as ive heard they can take up to 12 weeks so im just hoping that in the next few weeks it settles down
theanxientist laura25070
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Hi Laura, thats encouraging to hear. I feel like they are stopping me from doing basic things at the moment. Its a rough ride at the moment. Just not sure these are for me
laura25070 theanxientist
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im the same i have no motovation i started seeing some improvement and started feeling abit better in evenings but last week i lost that and felt very depressed i wake up every morning with that knot in my stomach which last all day it is a struggle
theanxientist
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im sorry to hear that. The act of taking pill itself brings anxiety to me. Im questioning myself as to whether or not i stick with this or drop them and focus on counselling, which i have responded well to previously.
Before i started taking these i can function ok. At the moment i can't.
Last night was met with insomnia and panic.
laura25070 theanxientist
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it is a hard one as i have only had few times ive been ok but i decided to stick it out with other peoples reviews they do seem to cause alot of terrible side effects my sleeping is same i cant go to sleep and when i do im awake early with the knot in stomach wot other side effects are u getting?
theanxientist
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generally a bit spaced out, pupils like dinner plates, heartburn, sweats, panic and last night complete lack of sleep. Energy levels feel extremely low. I've lost about 7 pounds since i weighed myself a week ago. Eating but hardly any appetite. Its the anxiety thats doing it for me though, its almost unbearable. I'm very torn as to what to do with it all. i havent taken one yet today and i feel brighter for it. I even just managed to get out of the house to go for a walk and not in my PJ's which was a bonus!
laura25070 theanxientist
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the exact same as me i was nausea and very dizzy but i was being sick and no appetite before the sertaline ive still no appetite have to force myself to eat but couldnt face a meal just now i take my tablets now at night i took them in the morning for the first week thats good that you got out a walk today hopefully that makes you feel abit better
theanxientist laura25070
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Well done for managing to push through it and sticking with them. Did you find it better taking them at night? i was considering doing that but the doctor has told me to stop taking them as
my reaction is so severe. I feel a bit relieved not to have endure the reactions to these pills. But also frustrated as i am essentially at square one. CBT starts tomorrow so i am hopeful that does the trick.
Hopefully no side effects from coming off of them now.
laura25070 theanxientist
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yea i found it a little better im sorry that it didnt work out for u thats what im scared of that they arent working good luck with ur cbt and hope everything works out for u and u start to feel better
theanxientist laura25070
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Thank you very much. Hope you get on well with it all. Nice talking to you 😃
laura25070 theanxientist
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thank u nice talking to u to
kieran35167 theanxientist
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I'm so glad I've come across this forum, I've been taking 25mg of sertaline for a week now and I'm having so many of the side effects listed on here (spaced out, tired, waking up in the night, anxiety through the roof)
I just hope it calms down soon I dont know what to do
laura25070 kieran35167
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i am on week 10 now and i was the exact same things are starting to settle down abit now with me sleeping has got better and having abit more motivation and the anxiety has settled down its still there but not as bad as what it was at the start it should start to settle down for you but it did take a while for me
kieran35167 laura25070
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Thank you,
It's going to be hard sticking to it but going to give it my best, I'm happier knowing there's other poeple suffering the same symptoms.
laura25070 kieran35167
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i felt the exact same how u r feeling and kept reading what people were saying about it which has kept me going this long as i felt like stopping it so many times
maria68829 laura25070
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Hi Laura,
I am almost at week 7 and will be seeing my GP again soon. I have also been given 2mg diazepam which I tried hard to avoid taking but it does calm my mind. I take 50mg sertraline at night and have had a few weird dreams but no nightmares as such. I have always been an anxious person and born worrier but my overthinking doesn't help. I'm 77 yrs old and lived with this anxiety for most of my life along with elements of OCD. On January 26th 2021 I had major abdominal surgey and now have a colostomy bag. During the operation I also had an appendectomy and a hysterectomy. I was coping well until around the start of July when this anxiety and depression hit me like a bolt from the blue. My GP believes I have PTSD as a result of the trauma. I hoped to feel better by now and can't bear the thought of this antidepressant not going to work. Basically I am anxious now about being anxious!
laura25070 maria68829
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hi maria
im sorry to hear that you have been through alot it seems to take a while for sertaline to take effect i am just starting to feel abit better now and thought it was never going to work i have experienced the weird dreams and also i was waking up sweating my anxiety is still there but nowhere as bad as what it was so hoping it does eventually go away i would stick it out and hopefully it starts to take effect for you soon