Anxiety / Depression?
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I've been on sertraline for 8 weeks and I'm not feeling any better. I was taking 100mg and I was shaking. Doctor told me to reduce to 75mg for 7 days and then go on 50mg. I feel the worst when I wake up in the morning, really shaky. As the day goes on I feel a little better but have headaches and my ears are buzzing. I take the sertraline at 06:00 AM. Sometimes I think I should be hospitalized. What can I do about the shaking? Is going for a walk helpfull?
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aga02916 fernando66934
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Were you put on 100mg straight away ?
fernando66934 aga02916
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I started on 25mg fora week then 50mg for 2 weeks and then 75 for 2 weeks and finally 100mg fora week and half. Today I finished my 8th week. I'm on 75 mg. for 3 more days and then 50 mg.
aga02916 fernando66934
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what you describing is typical side effects from Sertaline or any Ssri. I started sertaline few days ago and I get tremors, shakes, sweats, palpitations, crippling anxiety, nausea, chills and I shake. You had side effects and now you are tapering so it could be your body adjusting again to dose. cant u ask doc to prescribe you some benzos short term to help you deal with side effects ?
vickylou aga02916
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aga I agree with you, nearly all anti depressants cause sweating, trembling and palpitations. I still get the side effects after two years. Sometimes I wonder why i bother as the side effects can be worse than the initial problem.
aga02916 vickylou
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haha Thats what I was thinking but I think in a long run it does help sometimes. We think it stopped working but it does. I was fine yesterday but today stomach is horrible. Like something is moving there which gives me weird feeling in my chest 🙄