Advice on Sertraline for Mum

Hi,

I've been reading the forums for a while and finally taken the step to create a post.

My mum was previously on Sertraline approximately 5 years ago as she was severely struggling with ocd and constant instrusivde thoughts.

After about 2 years she was weaned off it and she was fine until early this year.

I'm genuinely not sure what her symptoms fall under and I'm hoping someone can help.

She's told me that she keeps reliving an event where a family member has made a comment (slightly rude) at a wedding and the comment was not even towards my mum, and most people brush but she keeps reliving this and then this causes her pain in her chest (Had this checked and its just muscle pain) and then she constantly thinks about how her health has been affected and she wants to stop thinking about these things as its effecting her health and these are the thoughts she's constantly having. She seems to be beating herself up emotionally.

Spoke to the doctor and shes been on 50mg of sertraline for almost 4 weeks and the thoughts seem to have got worse the past few days so the doctor has increased to 100mg.

I'm hoping someone can tell me if they've been through this and if sertraline helped? When would did you start to notice a change and is this OCD or something else?

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this.

0 likes, 0 replies