just hanging on

Hi

Just back from holiday which I was not looking forward to but had a great time, the pills are now working and I feel a lot better, I think I have been taking them for about 7 weeks now. Thank you everyone who has replied and made me feel better. I would hate to go through the side effects again though.

Hey that's great to hear you had a good holiday! You will now go onwards & upwards!

Three months in, and I really look forward to the day now, I live my life and am doing all the things that give me pleasure, keep it up and happy days!

Annie :D

Hi there, i have bin on sertraline since the beggining of april,i am only just starting to feel my old self ,still not 100% but getting there. I had side effects like you at the start,not able to eat,not sleeping,dizzy and a bit out of it,body zaps and wobbly legs,but slowly the side effects have subsided.I like you wanted to give up because i felt i was getting worse but i did get through most of the side effects and started to have good days ,must say i did still have bad days but they have got less and less and now looking forward to a wonderful summer.Stick with it ,i never thought i would feel better again but i do still have problems with sleep and sweating but i am hoping that these probs will get better with time. This site has been a lifesaver i have received some great messages of support,they really do help.Hope this has helped and you feel the benifits of the tablets soon :D :D :magic: Patty

Patty.

So glad you are on the mend. You do get a lot of support & info on this site, it has helped me in my recovery. Like you am looking forward to the Summer - hey even if it rains I feel better and I don't care!

After feeling so awful even the smallest things like a bird singing seems wonderful, I will never take anything for granted, it has been a real learning curve for me.

Keep it up and my best wishes, we will get to where we want to be.

Annie

Hi i have just started taking sertraline today what can i expect over the next few days

Hi,

Some people don't have many side effects, others like me have bad ones, not being able to sleep - the Doctor gave me Zopiclone and I was on that for about 3 weeks and just now have the occasional one now and then, also not eating (that can be good if you are overweight) but that only lasted about 2/3 weeks, I also felt hyperactive so went out walking which is good for you anyway, very tense about everything and felt like stopping taking the tablets but the help I got from people on this website encouranged me to carry on and I am now great, hope this helps.

Hi

This is the second time I've started Zoloft and wish now that I didn't stop it in the first place. Life was good, I was happy so I assumed I didn't need it anymore. Boy, was I wrong.

To be honest the first 4 - 6 weeks are not for the feint of heart. My depression eased a bit during the first week and has continued to do so but I'm experiencing nausea, an internal restless feeling, legs feel restless, feel internally agitated which I suppose could be anxiety. I hate this feeling the most.

I just hit the three week mark and am going to stick with it cause I know how well I felt when I was on it before. Each time I started Zoloft the anxiety got worse before it got better. I do have Klonopin to take the edge off till the anxiety subsides.

I am one of the lucky ones and have no problem with my sex drive or my ability to orgasm. I have tried other antidepressants with the opposite effect and felt more depressed and detached than ever.

If you are experiencing relief with the depression I would hang in there as the anxiety is the last to go.

Seems like the discussion may have gone dry but I am sitting here looking for any form of relief. Just started Sertraline for the 3rd time in almost 7 years. I think I have always been a high strung perfectionist but after the birth of my first daughter I could no longer find healthy eays to cope. Sertraline saved my mental state and normalized me. But I went iff so my wife and I could tey to have another child. After getting pregnant I went back on the sertraline but the agitation was horrendous so I went off and took Venlafaxine XR for a few years. I finally came off that when I felt like life stabalized but then my younver daughter had a terrible accidrnt and so I went on Lexapro at the lowest possible dose. I wasnt sure it did anything for me. In the last 6 to 9 months I have gotten by with an OTC pill called Gabatrol which works most of the time but of late it has not at all been effective.

Enter present day. Ive been taking 25mg of Sertraline for 5 days now. I take it at night when I go to bed to hold off the sexual side effects. I find that I cant sleep past 430 in the morning and my anxiety is horrible. Im jittery, i feel tired, ive had the wobbly lef feeling too. I dont remember all of this when i took it 7 years ago but perhaps I forgot because it did end up working at some point. I just want to know that I will come through this and sill have the relief from the anxiety that I seek. I will be bumping up to 50mg on Tuesday evening.