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Day 15 of 75mg

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nicole0926
nicole0926

Question....i started on September 27th with 25mg and after 6 days went to 50mgs and then on October 25th went to 75mg. I feel better but not where I feel I should be? I have had anxiety creep back in not as bad but still did. Should I give it more time or ask to go up to 100mg? Advice please?

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  • UK-Rose
    UK-Rose nicole0926

    Posted

    Hiya Nicole,

    I personally would give the 75mg more time, at least 4weeks minimum as it usually takes 4-8weeks to see any benefits after an increase.

    Hope this helps 🌹

    • nicole0926
      nicole0926 UK-Rose

      Posted

      Thanks UKRose. I am just like the rest and want to be back to myself. Waiting to hear back from my doctor. Will update.
  • dawn0904
    dawn0904 nicole0926

    Posted

    I would wait it out. I’m at 62.5 mg and I had the lingering anxiety as well until the end of September and it all just disappeared. I started July 10th at 12.5 mg and slowly increased. I’ve been on 62.5 mg for about six weeks now. I felt good at 50 but I was still having a little anxiety once in awhile so I bumped it up and it helped. I don’t wanna increase to anymore than what’s working, so give your body a chance to accept the dose you’re at before increasing. Good luck and I hope you feel better soon
    • dawn0904
      dawn0904 nicole0926

      Posted

      If you mean side effects, it all depends on how much you increase. I went slow with my increases, 12.5, 25, 37.5, 50, 62.5 mg. I did my increases around every 3 weeks. I was on 50 for the longest cuz I was planning on staying at that dose but I chose to bump it up to 62.5 and it was just right. I think I was only on my current dose a week and it was working. Doing mine slowly I didn’t really have real bad side effects. I had the mild headaches, diarrhea and some insomnia and increase in my anxiety for about a week and that was about it. The insomnia was the worst for me. I had trouble with it from day one, and tried multiple things to help with no resolution. Once I hit the end of September, I gave up trying anymore sleep aides, even ambien didn’t work, and basically was to the point of accepting I was never gonna sleep more than 2 hours a night and the next day I started taking Magnesium Glycinate and it was a life changing moment. I’ve been taking it since then and I’m sleeping every night. Some nights I struggle but nothing like before. Anyways, for me going slow worked well and kept side effects at a minimum of maybe a week after each increase. 
    • nicole0926
      nicole0926 dawn0904

      Posted

      I mean start at day one with it getting in your system? I went up slowly too and have been on it for about 6 weeks with different dosage increases. Yes the headaches for me. Better then in the beginning.
    • dawn0904
      dawn0904

      Posted

      I will also say that when I did bump up from 50, I did go to 75 and it was awful, my anxiety was worse than it ever was since being on the medicine so I went back to 62.5. So maybe, if the anxiety is too much go back some, and see how you feel in a week or so. Just try to give it more time. But since I did try the 75 and I felt bad, I would try to decrease to 62.5 but that’s just my opinion 
    • dawn0904
      dawn0904 nicole0926

      Posted

      It’s built up in your system by now, it’s just an adjustment for your body to get used to the increase but if it’s slow increases it’s not as bad and doesn’t take long for your body to accept the dose 
    • nicole0926
      nicole0926 dawn0904

      Posted

      Okay, thanks! Just want to feel 100% better. Need to give it time.
    • dawn0904
      dawn0904 nicole0926

      Posted

      I know exactly how you feel. It took me almost 12 weeks to feel the anxiety disappear finally, I guess if I went faster it wouldn’t have taken as long but I didn’t want the bad side effects I hear everyone having so I’m ok with taking it slow. I think if u only are having the lingering anxiety like I had, and you’re feeling much better, then I feel that you’re almost there to that “aha” moment. I would say another week or so, you will be feeling a lot better
    • nicole0926
      nicole0926 dawn0904

      Posted

      Lingering anxiety and not back to having all my energy back. Can't wait for that aha moment. I feel better then I did 6 weeks ago!

    • dawn0904
      dawn0904 nicole0926

      Posted

      Yea. I know what you mean about the lack of energy. When I started the magnesium, it helped everything for me, the lingering anxiety, muscle aches, headaches, and my lack of motivation just disappeared. It was a light bulb moment. It helps so much 
    • nicole0926
      nicole0926 dawn0904

      Posted

      I have muscle aches too. That helped it all? Is that okay to take and not have to much in your system? I also have low potassium so I take prescribed supplements for that.
    • dawn0904
      dawn0904 nicole0926

      Posted

      Yes. It helps the muscle aches especially. I was on birth control for years and stopped it the end of September and was hit with withdrawal side effects from the birth control and it causes me to have severe back pain and chest aches with the normal pms crap and it helps with all of it. I recommend checking out Magnesium Glycinate on amazon. Read the reviews about it or even just google about magnesium deficiency. I never thought it would help cuz nothing else was working in my favor but the first day I started it I couldn’t believe how much better I felt overall. It says anxiety causes our bodies to become magnesium deficient so I guess I am since it’s helping me. I learned about it from someone else on here and they said they took it to help them sleep and for their anxiety so I checked into it. It’s safe so I went for it and so glad I did.  I’m hoping that I can stop the sertraline the first of the year and just continue with the magnesium. 
    • dawn0904
      dawn0904

      Posted

      Just like the sertraline, I went slow when starting magnesium so I know when it’s too much. I take a half a pill and cut it up again in half and take one half in the morning with my meds and the other half around lunchtime. 
    • nicole0926
      nicole0926 dawn0904

      Posted

      Thanks for that info. I am not low on magnesium I just had that checked. That is good to know that it helps. I will look into it.
    • dawn0904
      dawn0904 nicole0926

      Posted

      That’s good. But I would look into it, the doctors told me that magnesium testing is never accurate or reliable so that’s why they never think to recommend it 
    • nicole0926
      nicole0926 dawn0904

      Posted

      I will look into it for sure, anything that will help and make me feel better.
    • dawn0904
      dawn0904 nicole0926

      Posted

      Well keep in touch and let me know how you’re doing. I hope you start feeling more and more like yourself soon
    • UK-Rose
      UK-Rose dawn0904

      Posted

      Hello Dawn, 

      I think I will do the same as you in time (62.5mg)

      I started my doses with 12.5mg increases instead of 25mg jumps and found overall the side effects all though annoying were alot more tolerable on my system in the long run. Im at 50mg now and it seems to be working pretty well... but like you said previously, I have also noticed that theres an occasional little niggle of anxiety (nothing major) just moments now and again... but I’ll stick with the 50mg for now and see if it passes, but if its still there after the full 8wks - I’ll increase to the 62.5mg and see how that goes 🌹

    • dawn0904
      dawn0904 UK-Rose

      Posted

      I’m glad to hear it’s working for you as well. And yes I’m so glad I went slow with my doses. I thought half way thru that it wasn’t gonna Work but I pushed on and just waited cuz I didn’t wanna have to go on a different one and the side effects be even worse. Anyways, keep in touch with how you’re doing. And I hope it starts working full force for u soon as well
    • UK-Rose
      UK-Rose dawn0904

      Posted

      I will do and Thanks Dawn.

      All the best🌹

       

    • nicole0926
      nicole0926 dawn0904

      Posted

      Just got done talking to my doctors nurse and gonna keep me at the 75mg for a little longer til I see him on the 24th to give it more time. Gonna start taking a half of an anxiety pill if I wake up in the middle of the night(due to insomnia).
    • dawn0904
      dawn0904 nicole0926

      Posted

      Good to hear you’re gonna give it more time. I will say tho, be careful taking the anti anxiety medicine. I took a half a pill once daily until about a month or so ago and I cut that half in half again to wean off. If I need it, I take a crumb of it now. I didn’t want to rely on it for sleep due to its affects and what it does to you long term. Your body will expect it daily to sleep if u take it regularly so just be careful. I know sleep is important but they can make things worse
    • nicole0926
      nicole0926 dawn0904

      Posted

      I will be, it is in the benadryl family but they use it for anxiety. This is one that isn't addicting. It isn't in the alprazolam family at all.

      I am hoping that it will all work and I get that aha moment soon.

    • dawn0904
      dawn0904 nicole0926

      Posted

      Well that’s good. The one I tried that’s in the Benadryl family was called hydroxyzine, and it worked for about two weeks for sleep for me but after that my body built up tolerance to it and it didn’t make me drowsy anymore. I also started getting internal shaking from it right after starting it but didn’t realize it was causing it til I went back and looked at my journal on when I started taking it and when the shaking started and it was within the first 24 hours so I stopped taking it. It did help with sleep tho but you build tolerance quickly if you take it every night. I hope it helps you tho. It wasn’t for me. 
    • dawn0904
      dawn0904 nicole0926

      Posted

      25 mg at bedtime and then I increased it to 50 about 2 weeks later when it stopped helping. 50 only helped a few days and then it didn’t give me the drowsy affect anymore. It relaxed my anxiety but I still struggled to sleep. It just wasn’t for me. A lot of meds I’ve tried didn’t work for me but others they do so you may have a different experience. The shaky feeling I got from it was I’m assuming an adverse reaction to it and it was scary so that’s why I stopped using it. I do hope it helps you. 
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