New to Sertraline

Forgot to mention about sleeping; I hadn't been sleeping well as my panic attacks tended to occur in bed do each night I would worry that I would get one. But since taking sertraline I have had the best sleep in ages!! I've been dropping off to sleep right away & sleeping through (unless I get woken by my children & even then I drop off again easily whereas it used to take me ages & ages to get bk to sleep after being awoken). I guess I've been very lucky!! 

Good luck with it & hope you are lucky like me! 😄

I would like to share my experience with Zoloft. I was having severe anxiety and panic attacks. The doctor prescribed me 50 mg of Zoloft and .5 mg of Clonzepam. A few days into the medication, my head felt "flat" for a lack of a better word. A couple weeks in, the medication was helping a bit but I felt like I was in hell. Convinced it was the clonzepam, I quit taking it. A couple weeks later, I noticed my concentration and memory was absolutely terrible. My parents admitted me into a mental ward. By the time the nurse was checking my vitals, I couldn't even communicate properly. I thought I was going brain-dead. I realized then that the problem was the Zoloft. I already tapered down from 50 mg to 25 mg, so while I was in the ward I just stopped taking the 25 mg. For a few days, I experienced extreme head pains and memory issues. The best way I can describe it is if someone hit you on the head with a hammer really really hard. I was extremely close to killing myself. The only reason why I didn't was because the pain was letting up a little bit by Day 3. Suddenly, my memory was returning and I thought I was out of the woods. However, by Day 4 I started experiencing very bad hallucinations. Hearing voices, imaging doom and peril, random fleeting images when I closed my eyes. I thought people's heads were on fire when I was talking to them. I've experienced depression the majority of my life and was diagnosed with anxiety, but psychosis is so much worse than either of those. By Day 7, the voices stopped and I could successfully close my eyes again peacefully. I was released back home. I never experienced any psychotic breaks like this until being on Zoloft. It's now been about two weeks since coming off of Zoloft. My memory is back, I still have hallucinations but they are becoming less and less. The lens that I'm looking through is more like my old self, but I still don't feel like my old self quite yet. As far as I'm concerned, Zoloft ruined my life. I advise no one to try this drug. Don't do it. It's not worth the risk, seriously.