I have been on sertraline for four and a half months
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I started on 50mg. Increased to 100mg. Increased again to 150mg and at the beginning of November increased to 200mg. Still do not feel any better. New dr said that the ones I were on Seroxat were the worst tabs i could take and immediately took me off them and i started sertraline the next day. That was at the end of July. Seroxat was 20mg. HOW LONG before i will feel better.I had a radical hysterectomy 10th November this year, May be sertraline hasnt worked so well because of that.
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carolyn79 hottydotty1
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People on here would say 4.5 months long enough for a med to work. Has for me after moved to it from mirtazapine due to massive weight gain.
betsy0603 carolyn79
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carolyn79 betsy0603
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hottydotty1 betsy0603
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hottydotty1 carolyn79
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Was the worst tablets i could take. He then put me on 50mg sertraline. No there was nothing said about withdrawal symptoms for seroxat. I had taken my tab of 10mg the morning i saw the doc and then the next day i took the first 50mg of sertraline. Up to 200mg now but it is taking a long time to make me feel better.
betsy0603 hottydotty1
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carolyn79 betsy0603
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shiralee86 hottydotty1
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betsy0603 shiralee86
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You may have hit tolerance withdrawal as well, where the same dose of med is causing withdrawal symptoms. This is also known as "pooping out."
Whatever you choose to do, do NOT just stop sert and start another med; you will still suffer from a cold turkey withdrawal doing so, and it is unlikely the next med will be able to prevent that.
I was in protracted withdrawal from going off Effexor last year, and after a time, not realizing what was happening, I was open to trying Viibryd. I had a severely bad reaction to it, with off the charts fear, anxiety, doom and insomnia! My nervous system was sensitized! I have since reinstated Effexor at a lower dose and am tapering off, and I feel much better now, on a subtherapeutic dose, than I ever did on higher doses of Effexor!
So, if you need help with tapering off, I created this post to help people with that:
https://patient.info/forums/discuss/withdrawing-from-antidepressants-and-benzos-safely-485891?page=0&order=Oldest#1809368
shiralee86 betsy0603
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Thankyou for the insite. I think the best thing to do is take 50mg everyday without fail??
shiralee86
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Thankyou for posting these links, they are very helpful!!!
betsy0603 shiralee86
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Your doctor should not have advised that type of usage! You were totally confusing your system! Maybe he thought you were going to drop to a dosage and stay there awhile, and then updose as needed but stay there....These drugs cause remodeling of the brain and nervous system thorughout your body. Think of ivy growing on a tressis, with the drug being the trellis. If you removed the trellis (ie. stop the drug or lower the dose), things just don't hold up! That is why changes must be made very gradually, and if drops are too big you will have withdrawal symptoms in response because a new imbalance is created every time there is a change. It takes time for the nervous system to adapt to the different level of the drug's action.
This is why they always say it takes about 4 weeks for you to see improvement on the drugs, with start up side effects in along the way, because the system is slow to make those adaptations.
carolyn79 shiralee86
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