My Sertraline Story!!

Hi dani,

I am into week 5 1/2 of sertraline 50mg and exactly like you my side effects went after a week and I felt 50%better and since 10 days ago my anxiety has shot through the roof and I feel worse than before so I am hopeful after reading your post I will accomplish what you have and start to feel better Thankyou for the story and I hope your progress continues 

I hope I feel better soon like you. I am scared and can't function today.

Hi just wondering how you are ?your story sounds similar to mine

Hi day 21 today of sertraline and roughly the same for the slow release beta blockers. Last 3 days I feel ok. Slight anxiety but very much more managble and I am doing my normal daily things. I was planning to go back to the gym but have a tooth infection which is making feel a little unwell so will go back when this is sorted. Had a review with gp who seems happy and suggested that I could go up to 100mg of sertraline I think to give levels in my system. However I agreed to have 1 more month on 50mg. And see what happens.  The only thing is I am unsure which med is keeping me this calm, but hopefully in a few wks gp said I can drop to 1 daily beta blocker instead of 2.  Then hopefully I can keep a level of meds that's not too high but helping greatly.  To anyone that is worried and having side affects I had loads but got through them and glad I stuck with it as now wk 3 and starting to look up. Still taking things day by day though. 

Hello. I found this discussion in the most strange and random way out of nowhere practically and I read all the comments. I wanna say that I've been taking Sertraline for almost 2 years now and at the beggining I had all these really messed up feelings, like you mentioned but some months ago I finally realized that the reason I couldn't even get outta bed was because I was taking this med. I couldn't even go to school and I could sleep the whole day through because I just couldn't feel not even a bit right or awake, also I felt really tired and heavy. My weight hasn't actually increased, but I do have more apetit which I didn't have at all before I took this med. So that's good because after taking them I actually started to eat and it did stop my depression. It's like these tablets make me feel less awake of the world in a metaphorical way. Because the things that normally bother me or the things that I normally hate and irritate me just make me feel okay when I'm under this drug. It's like they make me be normal, which is good but I'm being all like fake thanks to it without even realizing it, because if it wasn't for it I would be hating every single little thing as always. But it's good that they help me on being normal, because that way I can cope with everything and feel okay about it. I made an investigation about this drug and it has several cons, so I do not wanna take it anymore. Specially because thanks to it I can't even be literally awake at all. Even tho I'm happy and fine all the time I just feel too tired and I cannot give my 100% that way or be actually good at all at school. I just can't do anything. I stopped taking them for some weeks and I thought I was all normal and okay but I actually had a breakdown and I got irritated and hateful about the most tiny little thing and I cried about everything so I had to take them back. Also I just did this thing about dropping it again a week ago and now I'm crying all the time about everything and is a really feel-full cry. I just can't take it anymore. If I take them I'm happy but I can't do anything and if I don't take them I can't do anything either because everything makes me feel completely horrible.

to all those who has anxiety either is it health or socail or what ever i do suffer from severe health anxiety i have all the symptoms for the last 6 months i been to so many doctors i try to avoid drugs but its seem to be this is the only option you dont want to be like crap a day or so then better and sick again i find it easy having something sweet like choclate ,banana or beet root juice or apple juice its help alot its not like your not anxious anymore but it make you relax and calm like nothing happend you feel more confident and think positive instead of thinking neative i hope every one get better i pray for every one i see myself sick suffering from this illneess i dont want anyone to suffer from this and other things make sure pray to the lord to heal with the prayer he will listen to you no matter how much we are in pain god will cure you be patient and the day will come your better everyone go through tough time life is not easy try to think positive and never let the devil to make you feel worse be strong patient and thankful to god what we have people suffer from alot of illness which is very seious so be patient 

and relax 

All side affect will go away. Just have some patience. Time will heal you. I faced the same side affects and it is gone now. Take care.

 

Hi all, Im suffering severe anxiety and have been on 50mg sertraline for about 10 years (for other reasons)  so when i hit this patch i was told to increase it.  I went up to 100mg and was sick for about 2 days but then ok and was just starting to have days where i felt "normal"  when it was time to increase it again to 150mg.  Well since i have gone up to 150mg 5 days ago my anxiety has come back to what it was before i started!  Having really awful spikes of scary attacks and very weepy.  Im so gutted as i was just thinking i was getting somewhere and now its come back worse.  Ive read a lot of comments saying that anxiety can rocket when inceasing the dose, has anyone else experienced this?  how long did it take to go away?  thanks

Hi all! I'm glad this thread seems to still be active. I've posted on other websites but with little or no response. I'm on day #7 of Zoloft (sertraline) and the past week has been rough. I have suffered from anxiety and panic attacks for two years. I'm a mom of 3 (7, 3 & 2) and finally felt as though I owe it to them to get myself sorted out. The past week has been full of anxiety (more so than usual), headache, dizziness, nausea and sleeplessness. I have been prescribed alprazolam (xanax) to take as needed for two years but my docs wanted me to cut back and try a daily. I am trying desperately to try to keep away from the xanax but it seems to be the only thing that helps with the anxiety spikes. I also have trazodone to help me sleep. I have found that I wake feeling panicked in the middle of the night even when I take it though. I get queasy at the thought of even going in public. I'm really hoping that this med works for me. It's been a long road and I'm ready to start getting better...

I recently started Setraline to help ease anxiety, and "spinning"/forward/compulsive thoughts.  I started 3 weeks ago at 50, then 2 weeks ago to 100, then now 150, with the plan to stop at 200 per my doctor.  The last two nights since I have started at the 150mg I notice I am having a harder time sleeping and also have woken up to anxiety/worry dreams, and have noticed that the anxiety of the dream seems to carry forward into the day.  Last night I woke up and then of course had a bout of anxiety about the medication increasing my anxiety lol.  But managed to get a hold of my mind and go back to sleep, though I woke up drowsy but OK.  I generally have a hard time sleeping anyway.

I wondered if anyone had this experience when starting Setraline - are these things that happen during the first month of adjustment, and then ease out over time?

How long did it generally take you before you started to feel more calm - i.e. and ease in the anxiety symptoms?  

I have had some, but still there are some spinning thoughts, which is why the doctor increase the dose.