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Dose increased

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tara07
tara07

Doctor increased my dose yesterday from 50mg to 100mg this morning after taking it I felt very sicky and shaky was only on 50mg for a week

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  • cheryl222
    cheryl222 tara07

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    Different Docters have very different opinions on timescales when it come to increasing dosage.From what I have learnt one week is not long enough for sertraline to get into your system properly.Some people are lucky and it only takes a couple of weeks others it can take a few months.

    Cheryl x

  • infintelyseekin
    infintelyseekin tara07

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    That does seem extremely quick to jump up to double the dose, it takes a good couple of weeks at least for the side effects of taking the medication initially to die down and for the drugs to start to have any kind of effect on you. Unfortunately Sertraline is slow to act and actually feel and kind of benefits from.  I will perhaps give it another couple of days and see how you feel, if things start to settle down then keep going, but if not then definitely don't be afraid to go back to your doctor and ask to decrease back to 50, just to let your system get used to them first.

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