Just startted setraline

FEELING SICK IS A NORMAL SIDE EFFECT OF THE MEDICATION THIS SHOULD SETTLE DOWN AS SOON AS YOUR BODY HAS GOT USE TO THE MED AND DOSE. I'V BEEN ON SERTRALINE FOR 6 MONTHS AND AT FIRST I HAD THE SAME AS YOU. I THINK YOU SHOULD GIVE YOUR SELF AT LEAST 10 DAYS TO GET THE MEDICATION INTO YOUR SYSTEM OVER THE 10 DAYS THE FEELING OF NAUSIA SHOULD START TO WEAR OFF. AS FOR THE ANXIETY THAT WILL IMPROVE BUT IT WILL TAKE TIME. IF YOU ARE STILL NOT HAPPY TALK TO YOUR G.P. AGAIN HE'S THERE TO HELP YOU. GOOD LUCK.

Hi Lucky, :P

I thought I was alone in this dilemma. How are you feeling now since you have been on it for 6 months?

I am worried of taking this medications for that long and see no improvement.

I hope that the nausea will wear out quicker because it affects my eating but within 2 days of taking it my mood has greatly improved. So I will continue taking it. As for anxiety it is really a problem but I am taking some anti-anxiety tablets called Lorazepam and it is helping.

Thank you and good Luck. :lol:

Hi,

I have been on these for 7 months now. I felt better almost straight away. For the first couple of days i felt kinda drunk but that passess. I'm now starting to come off them but haven't had much luck.

The sickness will pass, i also had headaches for a while but they soon went.

Good luck

Hello It's Lucky again. I will tell you what happened to me. Just before christmas last year I started to get panic attacks which really frightened me, I also started suffering with anxiety. At worse I could not stand for more than a couple of mins,answer the phone,,, wash my hair go out side ,go to work,answer the door, and was scared to sleep and scared to be awake. I tryed to get my self better with no med , but by easter this year I had made some progress but was still suffering and still could not go out or to work. I started Sertrline in the April and like you had the side effects, after 4 days the sick feeling started to wear off but it still took a good six weeks for the dizziness to stop. However I carried on with the med and I am now back at work in quite a responsible job, I can go out, meet friends, and I have just come back from Greece after a 2 week hol. I feel much much better and still improving. You will be the same but please be patient. I hope this story will inspire you and give you some hope, all I can say is thank god for Sertrline. I'm sure you will feel better soon. And for your original question I FEEL FANTASTIC.

Hello it is Milly here your message has inspired me . Iam improving a great deal. My story is similar to yours. I was in a responsible job and then one day on may way home from work I got very anxiuos and panicky. By the time I reached my house I was crying my eyes out, but when my husband asked me why I had no answer to why I was crying. I went and saw my GP next day and was started on ecitalopram which made the symptoms worse and he chaged it to sertraline a week later. I am doing better on setraline except I get very tired and nausea. I hope this gets better with time. It is only my 3rd day and things are not getting worse.

Keep on keeping well. :D

Hi I have been on sertraline for 6 weeks and I have found them very helpfull I tried to do it myself but was not sleeping so I went to the doctors and he prescribed sertraline at first I did not want to take them because I thought of all the side effects the neausea etc but I have persiveered with them and I am feeling better but I still have my odd days but they are getting less so please persevere with them.

Hi,

I have been on citralopram for about 12months, but my doctor advised me to change to sertraline. For the first couple of days i felt better more like myself. I have nearly been on it two weeks and now it just makes me feel angry as if i have really bad PMT. Not sure what to do, whether to go back to the doctors or to keep with it. Any advise???

Many thanks

Hi hetty5123, I have had a similar experience with setraline. The first 3 days I felt great but this is my 6th day and I feel rotten, I am on both mirtazapine and setraline. Only my doctor knows the reason why. I felt okay even on just Mirtazapine I am going back to him tomrrow to expalin my syspmtoms especially nausea, weakness, tiredness and feeling teary for no reason yet I was not like that 6 days ago.

What time of the day do you take setraline? I take mine in the daytime may be that is why I experience these symptoms, may be it is better to take at night?

I have been on sertraline for 6 weeks and been back to my doctor today and he has advised me to take mine at night. I have a couple of days when I am fine then I go back to feeling neausea and also very anxoius glad someone else is feeling that way.

Hi Hetty5123,

I went back to my doctor today because I could not tolerate the nausea, tiredness, weakness and lowere mood anymore. She advised me to stop. I had been on it only 6 days. I will continue with mirtazapine that does not cause me any problems and afterall I was doing well on it I do not know why my other doctor added another drug on it. Sometime these doctors think they know it all but they can be wrong at times. I am glad I have one I am already okay with.

hi im on my 6th day of setraline today i av had a weird headache like a stabbing in back of head at top is ehis a side effect.

Heloo just started 50mg of sertraline yesterday ,feeling really sick and anxious and quite spaced out. Just want to know how long do these side effects last before you start feeling improvement? Xx