Advice please. Bad day for anxiety

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Hello, I am on day 25 of taking 50mg Sertraline. I was prescribed this for quite severe anxiety, and low mood because of the anxiety.

Week one I was agitated, very anxious, hot sweats, nausea and no appetite. I was also relying on Diazepam to help me leave the house.

Week two, was pretty much the same but with less nausea.

Week three, I felt like I was starting to feel better. much less side effects, feeling more positive and managing most days with no diazepam. 

Week four, i've returned to work after three weeks off. Have been very on and off, moments of fear and panic. But also at times feeling almost normal, and a bit more positive. Have been using small doses of diazepam again. The whole week has felt quite overwhelming really  rolleyes

Today I feel like i've gone almost back to the beginning. Heart palpitations, feel down, tingling skin, sweating, not wanting to leave the house. Is it normal to have days like this? 

Anyone that could give me some advice, or anyone that has experienced anything similar. I am seeing my doctor tomorrow morning so will explain to her then. 

Thankyou,

Dannielle smile

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    Hi Dannielle

    Your post sounds similar to my story

    I started fluoxetine now on day 18

    And I've been up and down , this seems

    Normal as things adjust

    I'll have days where I feel good and have energy combined with gd mood and less anxiety . Other days I'm tired the anxiety is high and I dread the day

    I like you was off work for 5 days and the thought of returning absolutely killed me

    It's maybe the work that your thinking about

    After been off . There's nothing worse when your trying to sort yourself out and you have work to go to . ITs early doors for me

    It's been rocky but it's worth hanging in there as I've had gd days and seemingly this is a sign of things to come

    Once again the gd days will out number the bad hope this helps

    Regards

    Daz

    • Posted

      Hi Daz smile

      Its nice to hear someone is going through something similar! It does seem very up and down at first on sertraline, and I have never taken medication for anxiety before so had no idea what to expect really. I am seeing my doctor tomorrow, possibly my dose needs to be higher, or its just a bad day and ill feel better again tomorrow, who knows! 

      Work is a tough one.. three weeks off was a bad idea really, it was so difficult going back. but i neded that time to adjust to tablets. I am going to try and eat some food and go to the gym today, that normally helps. So fingers crossed ill have the courage to go! 

      Thanks for your reply, and i hope you continue to have many more good days smile

      Dannielle

  • Posted

    I took this medicine off and on for 4 years it worked okay for me but the anxiety never fully goes away they kept bumping my dosage up to a 125 or 150mg then I just felt horrible so my advice if they want to keep upping the dosage say no because when they did this i developed eye floaters it's like when you look at the light you see little strings they can also make you go blind if they get worse but luckily I stopped the medicine and got my eyes checked and they said I would be okay but other then that I liked the medicine just don't let them keep upping it into the 100 of mgs
    • Posted

      Thanks Ashley! How long when you started taking sertraline until you noticed the anxiety was better? I know that I need to stay positive and help myself out aswell, I'm not expecting the medicine to fix me straight away, just hoping it will start to help sad
  • Posted

    It took about 2 months for me but everyone reacts different to it all I know is just when I gave up on it and stopped taking it I realized how much it was working it just does it little by little you will see change over a period of time and some days will just be wore then others like for me sunny days are great then when it's rainy I feel horrible you just have to keep a positive attitude and don't think about it just say maybe tomorrow will be better and then eventually it will be I'm only 19 and my anxiety was so bad I had to be home schooled and took sertraline for nearly half my life been to therapy and everything but honestly writing stuff down talking about it helps because if you keep stuff in your head it gets trapped there and will haunt you everyday medicine does help but you have to work with it

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