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How long before sirtaline made you feel better

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don45258
don45258

Hi everyone

Could you all please tell me when sertaline started to make you feel better just so I can compare

Thanks

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  • Colls10
    Colls10 don45258

    Posted

    For me, it's taken about three weeks on 200mg, more so after I changed from night to day. Interfering with stomach a lot though.
    • rachel62244
      rachel62244 Colls10

      Posted

      O how I wish 3weeks fixed me! Supouse I improved in this time. I'm now on 100mg and Dr wants to increase to 150mg but I'm scared coz a increase really unsettles me again sad but lower doses only work for a bit and don't keep me there
    • lynda70899
      lynda70899 rachel62244

      Posted

      Hi Rachel

      another low day.  What is with these meds?  I didn't increase to 100 because I have things to do today and tmrw so will wait until Saturday.  Just feel like crying. So frustrating.  Just venting.

  • david49878
    david49878 don45258

    Posted

    2-3 weeks after I started Year's ago at a much lower dose.
    • rachel62244
      rachel62244 david49878

      Posted

      I dont understand why they have left me on this 3 1/2 months and I'm still depressed if others are better within weeks. I'm seen by home treatment weekly so I should Bevin good hands sad I seem to be getting there then drop again.
    • lynda70899
      lynda70899 rachel62244

      Posted

      Rachel

      i so understand.  Had a low day myself.  Tmrw I do my increase to 100 but I decided if I don't see a drastic improvement.  I will switch.  So frustrating.

      lynda

    • rachel62244
      rachel62244 lynda70899

      Posted

      My p Dr tells me coz iv had some improvements I need to just keep increasing and would only switch me if it had done nothing. Iv been were I can't function at all. Never suicidal just desperate for it to end. My life is special my children are my world ! I will not let to take me
  • Colls10
    Colls10 don45258

    Posted

    Everyone is so different . All these anti depressants are like shooting a gun in the dark and hoping to hit something. The dose, the time of day, the persons own make up mentally and chemically. When I said 3 weeks, I'm not over my depression , but am getting a bit calmer at times. I've had depression since I was 18 in 1992 and been on so many I forget.my brother is also bi polar bless him, and he is in a state. He has tried to take his life 3 times, and has been in a psychiatric hospital for several months at a time . Guess there could be a family conevtion with self and depression
    • rachel62244
      rachel62244 Colls10

      Posted

      Sorry to hear your brother is unwell. Mental illness is awful and no one understands the pain if uv not been there. R u bi polar too? Yes ads do calm me that part works. Iv often wondered if I'm bipolar but I don't have any highs just go from normal to depressed.
    • Colls10
      Colls10 rachel62244

      Posted

      No, I'm not bi polar although I too have wondered. I've had many cognitive behaviour counselling in past, and got a review with a psychiatrist as I thought I must have something as it seemed whenever anything went wrong in life, I become very stressed and breakdown. Psychiatrist said at most he thought I may have borderline personality, and that was that. I go through months being ok, then bang, few months of being very low and zero self belief. Father of 4 and husband to amazing wife, it is hard. Dr is now thinking I may have p t s d from my major. r accident in 1992 .
    • rachel62244
      rachel62244 Colls10

      Posted

      Its very hard. Iv boys 5 and 9 and a baby to care for who I love so much yet I feel I fail (although I know I'm Ill) I had postnatal depression after my other kids too with serve anxiety and some ocd to complete the hell. I get better for a bit well 90% and then boom I start feeling disconnected again and numb where nothing seems real (flat nothingness) can u relate? Im seen by the mental health team and the Dr is coming tomorrow. I just want me back ! I hope u recover and thoughts for u brother
    • Colls10
      Colls10 rachel62244

      Posted

      I feel I have o c d but I'm told it's more like perfectionism . I'm always in the go and have to get everything in my mind completed .

      I can relate to the flatness , but over time I've learnt that really, if possible, just go with it at times. I've read a lot about depression, anxiety etc, and read that these feelings are feelings, like happiness , and to not try to avoid or get upset having them, but try to be with it?? If it was so simple it'd be great hey . Have you looked at mindfulness reading aswell?

    • Colls10
      Colls10

      Posted

      Good luck with Dr tomorrow! Keep us posted . Keep pushing in! Do you worry a lot? I do and not sure if this is the suspected p t s d or not, I'm learning that to worry constantly is a total waste of mental energy. Best of luck Rachel.
    • rachel62244
      rachel62244 Colls10

      Posted

      Worry me haha?? Yes and i make a small thing huge. I'm a loving happy person so how I ended up like this I don't know (Dr says it can strike anyone) I was a totally nut job at one point, my anxiety was like a 24hr panic and I couldn't sit still. I'd become dizzy and disconnected. If I stop and think back iv come along way its just awful how it's not all up hill sad
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