50mg for 3 months!

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I have been taking 50mg of sertraline for 3 months now with .5mg of clonazepam. i started to feel good until last friday that I had a panic attack and it has been non stop anxiety since then.any advice?

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  • Posted

    how long was it before you initially felt good? I seem to be going back n forth good then bad. I'm at 7+ weeks on 50mg

    • Posted

      i started to feel better around week 6 but still get my bad days. thinking about a change on my dosage. but definitely give it a little more time because it can take up to 12 weeks

    • Posted

      i think a visit to the doctor is advised .

      may be you need to up your dose .

    • Posted

      thanks. i have an appointment the first week of april. hopefully my anxiety goes down or doesn't get worse until then. did you have an increase in your dosage?

    • Posted

      yea im now on 150 mg . started on 50 last november then upped to 100 then 150 now 5 weeks

    • Posted

      did you feel any secondary effects when increasing the dosage?

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      only increased anxiety and intrusive thoughts for a couple of weeks . im now better but still not yet as good as i want to be . im 5 weeks in the new dose .

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