Citalopram & sertraline

hi i have just found out cyprohenptadne its a antihistamine 4mg aday stopped the sweating x

Hi Jane  just read your post and replies. Like you I get anxious over EVERYTHING even about getting anxious  and I would avoid social functions with my family  have been feeling this way for years   3 months ago went to drs as couldnt cope with it anymore and felt I was always letting my family down so I was start on Sertraline 50mg  I decided to take it at night coz thought that if I got any side effects  hopefully I would sleep thru them.  I felt fine though and the only side effect was diarrhea that lasted 3weeks. So doc put me down to lewest  25mg to deal with diarrhea and since then and gradually been going up until i am now on 75mg. The anxiety has greatly lessened and although I still get a little anxious about restaurant visits etc  I am able to cope. My doctor said that because i had been anxious for years  it wouldnt be an overnight cure  So basically what i'm saying is look at your little tabs as friends and everytime you pop one say to yourself these are going to make me feel better  (because they will)  and remember thousands of people are on these types of meds and most people do not have any adverse effects to them    Good luck take each day as it comes dont look back look forward

just joined this site and came across your thread i take 200 mg of sertraline a day i do not feel that i suffer any side effects from day 1 i have been taking them for about a year

I never realised the sweating was a side effect - I thought it was age related to me. I was on sertraline twice, and most recently stopped when I had an accidental pregnancy. That was 2 years ago and I know I am sliding further and further into the pit again; not leaving house, getting someone else to collect elder child from school and cancelling outings at the last minute again. I had ptsd after an horrific first birth with eldest now 7 1/2 and was so desperate not to fall into the same place with this one, and so have been actively trying to avoid but then lost my job, had a tribunal that I had to walk away from (couldn't afford to pursue and lost all of my savings) and now my well respected and long career reference is a 'worked here friom x to y' and that's as much as I get. Have started relying on alcohol as a 'softener' to life and I *know* it's not the answer, but really didn't want to get sucked back into medication :-( really don't feel able to talk about this to family, even husband, so thank you for anyone who takes the time to read. It's a smidge of comfort know ing I'm not alone. x

No absolutely not don't be worried, I know this post is 8 months old now and hopefully you are now settled into Sertaline. I have found it the best one of all, Citalopram was the worst for side effects. Sertraline is excellent can't recommend it enough. I use it combined with Lamotrigine to control my Bi Polar and if anyone would get problems with those two together with balancing moods and mania avoidance, it would be me. No they are a very good drug. My GP says they are the most expensive if we had to buy them, but they are good - very good! I take 200 mg a day! Plus 200 mg Lamictal (Lamotrigine) No side effects, no mania, got me thru a lot of personal trauma, and still is! x

I'm so glad that this discussion was started and very much so that I came across it. About 9 years ago I had my first panic attack. In a supermarket of all places and only because I was in ceiling high aisle and I couln't find my Mum! I was 29!!, lol! I had just split with my fiance, so it must have been to do with the emotion from that, I don't know.  I'm a very sociable, funny, happy to be centre of attention kinda girl (normally). I, like others that I have read, thank you, had the dizzy like I'm falling kinda feeling. Noise and heat set me off mostly. I got help then, citalopram, and it seemed to work, but I hated the 'not feeling' feeling So stopped as I thought I was also on the mend. We are talking years here though.  The first time I cried after coming off them felt amazing, but what happened after not so much. (Did anyone else have this non feeling?). I then tried to get through life any way I could, meetings at work ("do I really need to be there?!"), avoiding going out with friends ("yeah sorry I feel really sick", or "sorry I'm busy that weekend."), but most of all the most hurtful for me "Sorry Mum I can't [have a weekend away, go shopping, come see you, meet for a coffee .....]". By god this is turning in to a novel. I have so many regrets in life for allowing it to go on for so long, whilst I was self medicating, I couldn't go out with my friends unless I had a drink. (LornaMM you are falling back in to this crutch even though you know its not right!!).  Not that I can blame you its great at the time

It took, sadly enough, for a good friend of mine to die at the age of 40. 2 children and a husband of only 10 months for me to realise I was wasting my life and ruining my relationships with family and friends.

Glad to say that although I still get a bit fidgety (is that how you spell it?) my forward thinking has gone down to I would say even just 10%!! That you all know is amazing.

I went in to town today to get some Mothers Day stuff, yes it was awful, yes my hair looked like I had just taken a shower ... but I didn't pre worry, bonus!

This tablet may not work for everyone, it doesn't for me because of the niagra fall sweats, but bloomin hell I'd rather that than what I suffered before.

Well done for sharing and good luck to all the ladies in this post and the ones who read it. Sorry for the massive message, but I think I would like to have read something like this when it started. Good Luck, God Bless x

 

I'm n the process of switching from 200mg of Zoloft to 40mg of celexa. I'm only on day 2 of my switch so far so good with the exception of some break through anxiety. I have been on Zoloft for years and my body as become amuned to it and its not working as good. I hate changing meds but I hate anxiety also. Its a hard to switch meds for me cause it's almost like I wait for a side effect to happen and sometimes I think I make myself feel a side effect that I have read about. Lol it's weird how your mind can play tricks on you.

I recently started Setraline to help ease anxiety, and "spinning"/forward/compulsive thoughts.  I started 3 weeks ago at 50, then 2 weeks ago to 100, then now 150, with the plan to stop at 200 per my doctor.  The last two nights since I have started at the 150mg I notice I am having a harder time sleeping and also have woken up to anxiety/worry dreams, and have noticed that the anxiety of the dream seems to carry forward into the day.  Last night I woke up and then of course had a bout of anxiety about the medication increasing my anxiety lol.  But managed to get a hold of my mind and go back to sleep, though I woke up drowsy but OK.  I generally have a hard time sleeping anyway.

I wondered if anyone had this experience when starting Setraline - are these things that happen during the first month of adjustment, and then ease out over time?

How long did it generally take you before you started to feel more calm - i.e. and ease in the anxiety symptoms?  

I have had some, but still there are some spinning thoughts, which is why the doctor increase the dose.

Hi Jane, like you I was taken of 40mg of citilapram and put on 50mg of sertraline at the moment I find them not too good, no side affects as such but don't think they are working very well, I am about to go up to 100mg, as per go, I will give another 2 weeks and if they don't work I want to go back on citilapram,