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Has anyone experienced night sweats with Sertraline?

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katharine63063
katharine63063

I have been taking Sertraline for about 18 months now and I think it has helped me a lot. However, one thing I am now plagued with, which seems to have coinsided with when I started to take it, is night sweats.

I know that hot flushes are listed as a sdie effect, but this is FAR worse than this. I would say about 4-5 nights a week I wake up and I'm sweating so much it's like I've just got out of shower. It's totally gross!!!

My bedroom is not too warm and I don't feel too hot when I gp to bed. The Dr has done blood tests to see if anything abnormal shows up, but that's all OK.

I would be really interested to know if anyone else suffers with this. I don't want to come off it or change if it's nothing to do with the Sertraline, but it's become a real problem in my life!!!

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  • margaret_53580
    margaret_53580 katharine63063

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    Hi i sympathise with you I have been taking sertraline for over ten years now. I have suffered here is hot sweats day An night my GP an blood test stated it was menopause, an I excepted this. These sweats controlled my complete life I was changeing my clothes several times a day showers even in the middle of the night etc. Well I'm over the menopause an the sweats are worded than ever😫😫 the GPS won't except the sertaline was the cause ?? So now with the support of my GP I am reducing down my sertraline over 2 months imnow down to 50mg from 150mg an now my sweats are reduced by 75% an can not wait to get off of them completely but I truly no now it's the sertraline. I can't tell anyone what to do but not again. I will be put on something else as I suffer manic depression. Go luck x

    • syndi80501
      syndi80501 margaret_53580

      Posted

      My 16 year ols has been taking it !bout the sa ame time 100 mg she wakes up drenched. We are weaning her off to see if it helps. It is the sertraline creating this problem according to her pediatrician and i see loads of people with fhe same complInt on the internet.
    • margaret_53580
      margaret_53580 syndi80501

      Posted

      Totally is sertraline I have got to the stage where I was more depressed on the sertraline than I was before I started taking them. I'm pleased your daughter has started to come off them. My daughter was on them recently an she was suffering bad sweats she has stopped them now an much better so this encourage me to come off of them 😄 I will update when I have stopped them completely about 2 weeks

  • syndi80501
    syndi80501 katharine63063

    Posted

    yeah we are now on the hunt for new depression eds that will help without really bad side effects. THE S
  • yasmin43678
    yasmin43678 katharine63063

    Posted

    Yes I have the same thing witch I will be seeing my doctor about as I'm having to shower straight away as I'm drenched in sweat

  • kellie03659
    kellie03659 katharine63063

    Posted

    I wish I'd seen your post months ago... literally thought I was going mad!

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    Drs never mentioned it could be sertaline... and how I last month after having the dosage for a while have now stopped taking the meds as I felt better in myself, certainly more levels and guess what not one night of night sweats!!

    Kellie. X

  • tammy39856
    tammy39856 katharine63063

    Posted

    yes, I started on 50mg, I am on week two and side effects are letting up a bit, but the first week it was awful!  I am 50, but this only happened in my sleep, I would wake up feeling like I had the flu, soaking wet, nauseas, shaking...

    I'm supposesd to up my dose to 100 next week, a bit nervous this is going to start all over again.  

  • BEM
    BEM katharine63063

    Posted

    Hi katharine63063. I too have a big problem with sweating. But mine is during to the day. I can sweat in an air conditioned room. It comes and go for no reason. It can be embarrisoning when at public events. I don't know what to do about it.

  • cheryl98613
    cheryl98613 katharine63063

    Posted

    YES !!

    i have been taking Sertraline for about 6 years. I noticed I was having hot flashes again and really bad at night !. I'm in my early 60's and I went through menopause several years ago and just couldn't figure out why I'm getting hot flashes again ??.

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  • april311
    april311 katharine63063

    Posted

    Hello I have the samething happening  to me after a month later and on 50 mg..

    Yes it’s hard dealing with this night sweat 

    But I do have mood swings time to time 

    But I love the medicine the way it makes me feel..

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