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Hello all,

I am due to start taking sertraline. I suffer fom servere depression. I have been on many anti-depressants since the age of 14 (am now 25), but always suffer servere side affects. I was on paroxatine but they made me feel like I was drugged up that i couldn't go to work so was changed to mirtazaqpine which I have found to be of no help. So having been to the doctor he has put me on what he described as an 'old-fashioned' drug!! I also suffer with irrational thoughts of dying, this makes me come out in a cold sweat and am physically sick, the doctor is hoping it with help with that too.

So the time has come to start my new tablets, am really quite scared having heard about the side effects, but I am hoping that the benefits will out-weigh them.

Lucy-Jane

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  • Guest
    Guest

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    Hi Lucy-Jane.

    I have suffered from Anxity, Panick, OCD and Depression for neraly 10 yrs now. I was on Ciprimil until September last yr. I was prescibed Sertline last month and it took me a couple of weeks b4 I would take my first dose, as the list of side affects really scared me. I decided to start myself on 25mg as this way the side affects, if any wouldn't be too bad. I also take busy bee from Holland and Barrett which is a B complex as it seamed to help with nervousness I suffer from. I have also read on the Holland and Barrett web site that people talikg Sertaline may benifit from taking 250mg of Koren Ginsign to help aliviate unwanted side affects, but I haven't got around to getting any yet.

    I am due to up my dose now to 50mg, but I'm still worried as I suffer from thoughts of dying, and any other bad thought my OCD will decide to spring on me. Have faith in these tablets as I have, I'm not as aggraphobic as I was a month ago so they must be doing something good even though I'm only on 25mg

    Good Luck xxxxx

  • Guest
    Guest

    Posted

    Hi

    I'm just adding some information to my last post as I got Koren Ginsign mixed up with Ginkgo Biloba.

    Holland and barrett recomend 240mg's of Ginkgo Biloba and NOT Koren Ginsign as I stated b4. Anyone wanting to check it out need's to go on the website and click on the Health Note. Then under Herbel remidies click Ginkgo Biloba. On this page you will see Drug Interactions at the top of the page. Click on this and it will take you to a list where Sertraline, click this and it will give you a list of different remedies which could be of benifit for people taking the drug

    • andre3000
      andre3000 Guest

      Posted

      It's very hard to cope with no hearble remedies won't work unless you want them to and that's the answer your brain is a very complexed organ it's like a computer processor it doesn't know what to do until the user tells it and learns it what to do just look at predicted text it doesn't always know until it gets to know your way and that exactly how your brain works and there is only you what can teach it cause it's yours and don't let anyone else tell you different be strong even if it means blocking people out its your life and your the one that counts look after yourself first it may sound selfish but you come first everyone else is number 2 you come first and keep telling yourself that

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