New to Sertraline with migraine

Hey,

If your getting these side affects you have 2 simple options.

Either persist with what your doctor has advised and maybe you will get better as time goes or on

or

To be safe, go and see your Doctor again and discuss your issues with him/her as this medication may not suit you and you may need to try another.

If you want to cut the does to half, I would suggest calling your doctor anyway and just run it by them first.

i agree with HotMart, don't think you should just stop taking your pills, it can cause all sorts of problems for you even though you've only been on them a few days. i have been on 50mg also, for 6 weeks now, i've just been increased to 100mg but i did suffer migranes and a bit of sickness but i just put myself to bed with the migranes and battled through. speak with your doctor before you make a rash decision :-)

Thanks to both of you, some stuff I'm reading is pretty scary but everyone is individual.

I asked to go on it as my mum takes it and working really well for her with no side effects. I think I'd probably be ok without it just was getting fed up of being depressed on and off for so long. I don't know dr well as just moved and I saw a locum. Think I will do halves over weekend and speak to dr Monday.

If you know a good painkiller for headaches let me know as paracetamol doesn't work! I have a 2yr old so need to be on form best as I can every day.

Jx

My wife a is a Pharmacist dispenser,

I have asked her about this and she says as you have kids to keep in check you can take 1 x Co_Codamol four times a day or you can take Ibuprofen 400mg one tablet up to three times a day.

You can get these from pharmacy but not supermarkets.

Hi, I'm 47 and have suffered form depression and extreme social phobia since my late teens/early twenties.

In october last year I was put on 50mg/day of sertraline. I became very disorientated, anxious and didn't want to leave the house at all. Because of this I stopped taking it and soon returned to my usual anxious state of mind.

After speaking with my psychiatrist in January of this year I decided to go back on to Sertraline but this time using only 25mg/day - to do this I had to snap the 50mg pill in half, which is easy to do. But by doing this I found I could better cope with the drug without any massive side-effects. From here I had a safe platform for building the dose every week or two by 25mg (and later 50mg) increments without causing any of those initial nasty side-effects.

For me this drug is now working, and working better than I'd hoped for - so far, at least.

This has been my personal experience of Sertraline. Should you adopt the same strategy the outcome might be different. Good luck fellow sufferer, whatever you choose!

Thanks so much I think I saw that you mentioned having half that gave me idea I had half last night and feel really good today. It's early days but will see how I get on.

I have ibuprofen on hand now too in case I get another migraine, thanks hotmart. It's weird that I'm completely off alcohol too. I would always have/need a glass of wine after my son goes to bed now I just don't want it.

I hope to able to post a positive outcome once been on it a while to help others too.

hi julia09021,

i too suffered from sever migranes within the first few weeks of taking sertraline, i was on 50mg for 5 weeks and on friday was increased to 100mg as it wasn't doing anything for my depression and anxiety at all so rang my doctor and she agreed i needed to go up with my dosage......so time will tell. day 3 of 100mg and i've got a headache now, it's not crippling me, if it gets worse, i will take some co-codamol.

i'm tired of feeling okay and my normal self one minute and then in the blink of an eye in tears and really down and depressed. i've lost about 3/4 of a stone over all on these tablets, but i am watching what i eat anyway so can't be sure if it's the meds that's making me lose so rapidly but i'm not complaining about that whatsoever!! usually when i lose weight i feel great, that's how i know i'm not right, i just feel okay, not elated about it like i should be so i'm hoping in the coming week, that the 100mg will kick in and i can say goodbye to my depression and anxiety but who knows, you've just got to keep going and keep thinking positively and reminding yourself that the dips won't last forever even though at the time, you feel like you're never coming out the other side or you're ever going to get better. you are not alone, none of us are and it's a relief to be able to speak to you and others about our experiences, as my boyfriend is great, but really, he's confused and doesn't really know the ins and outs of it. he does his best to make me feel better and i feel terrible as we've only been living together 6 months and this has decided to happen but tomorrow is another day :-) thanks for listening all of you :-)

I know that feeling Gingemac I sometimes think I've ruined my partners life when I've been like this but he's still with me and when I'm good it must make up for it, I forget what it's like when I feel bad until I feel bad again. I overthink and analyse too much, used to think being a perfectionist was good thing but it's awful I'm trying to relax & not be bothered! Since taking Sertraline I haven't felt low just bit irritable today felt might slip so I've had 50mg as been on 25mg for few days and hoping I won't suffer too much for it.

I hope you're coping on 100mg I'm eating regularly to combat any headache/sick feelings. I'm keeping a diary on how I feel each day whilst taking it too.

My mum was very ill with depression when I was teenager, it was hard for me seeing her in hospital, was long time ago and thankfully she's much better now but I can't forget it. Im really trying to stay in control of my life.

morning julia,

i have terrible paranoia that he's going to be leaving me soon, or he's looking elsewhere because of my depression. that he's plotting some getaway somehow. when we first met i didn't have this and we moved in together pretty soon after, 6 months after, it's been a bit of a roller coaster for us, getting to know each other more and each others habits etc, resolving issues and arguments etc, that's what's started this off and now whenever we fall out, i go to pieces and end up lower than ever, i just hate arguing with him. when i'm fine, we get on so well and we have a right laugh together, he's my best friend. when i'm down it's like i switch myself off and i'm totally different and almost on a different planet, so that's got to be hard for him to cope with right??

i too analyse things that have been said and things that have been done and then the anxiety kicks in and i just end up beside myself and i can't concentrate at work, i'm really low and can't even crack a smile, which isn't like me at all, i'm usually a very smiley person and happy most of the time. i know everyone has their down days but nothing like this. however, yesterday and today i haven't been bad, we had a good chat about it last night and we are both going to be trying harder with each other as i said, i need to get better, it's not an option, i don't want to be on antidepressants forever!!

i'm on 100mg of sertraline and it will be 1 week tomorrow since i started taking the 100mg, before that i was on 50mg for 6 weeks, didn't do a thing and i was still very low and anxious.

have a good day yourself and feel free to vent away, i just did!! helps alot :-)