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5 1/2 weeks on 150 mg and last week felt like the worse was behind me. This week however, is a different story. Intrusive thoughts back, butterflies in the stomach, not looking forward to anything again. When will I just get beyond this and be able to live normal again?
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LordSean vanessa45115
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You won't be normal again
I've been the same since last September almost a year we have good days and we have bad the best advise I could say is try to be happy and try to find comfort in what ever you are doing try your best to find a hobby anything that will take your mind of things it got so bad for me I also had to take night time sedatives which do help a lot as they are basically night time anxiety tablets with sleeping sedatives inside and I feel great every night and great all morning it's lunch time and tea time we all have the horribleness just try to be happy it's all any of us can do this may seem silly but I've started watching the mindy project and she has basically given me life !! I've always loved horror things and since my anxiety I can't watch horror anymore due to it can upset my body and I literally jump out my skin I've never laughed so much
LFCste LordSean
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not really good advive now is that just because you feel that way doesn't mean everyone else will positivity is the key and will power like I have said before the mind is limitless it CAN do anything you wont it to do
you/we are in control of it nothing or know one else is
lee18125 vanessa45115
Posted
Hi..
I have been on all kinds of meds for anxiety, since starting on 50mg of sertraline it's been great.. BUT.. When my monthly cycle is approaching and during I may aswel be on nothink cuz it's a horrible time.
So maybe your hormones counteract with your meds,
Just a suggestion that's how it works for me.
Best wishes, keep a positive attitude.X
LFCste vanessa45115
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in answer to your question yes absolutely you WILL live a normal life again there thing just take time we dont get like this overnight be strong I know at time it can and is testing what ever the mind whats it can get have no doubt in that
sparrow01 vanessa45115
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hey, i would advise that now sertraline has given you some strength back so that you are not totally stuck in a hole at rock bottom, do lots of reading up around the internet regarding anxiety, negative thinking, dealing with intrusive thoughts, and so on
it's very important and useful to understand what is going on inside you and learning ways to improve your heath and yourself
for example, i recently learned that when that awful anxiety feeling comes, (that awful feeling we all know and have felt), instead of then becoming overwhelmed or scared etc, i am instead now thinking to myself "i don't feel great, but it will pass". just little things like that, small improvements in yourself, they all add up and help you on the road to becoming well and more stable feeling again, and each little improvement in yourself gives you strength, energy, hope.
vanessa45115
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Thank you all so much for your kind words and advice. Sertraline worked for me for 7 years 100 mg and after having a couple life changing things happen, I crashed again. The fact that I have had more good days then bad tell me it is going to work but I'm sure, like everyone, sometimes we just need that little bit of reassurance from people who also struggle. I was just hoping after 5 1/2 weeks on 150 mg that I would be back where I was before I started.
sparrow01 vanessa45115
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do you think it might be possible that you have gone up too fast to 150mg? perhaps you could see if you do better going back to 100mg for a couple of weeks, because it might actually be the case that you have felt crappy over the last few days due to a bit too much of sertraline in your system at the moment. but if you dont want to do that, hopefully you just need some more time to settle on 150mg, because although 5-6 weeks sounds like a long time, - for many of us (including me), the good stuff happens 8-12 weeks after being on a fixed dose. speaking for myself, i felt crap at 5-6 weeks on 200mg, but now im around 8 weeks in, im feeling good. i did try increasing to 150mg myself at around 5-6 weeks; i kind of wanted to speed things up and thought i would feel good the next day, but i felt worse so decided to be patient and go back to 100mg and wait, and that seems to have paid off as im doing very well now. (but of course that said, i f i have eg. a whole week straight of feeling crap again, i would increase to 150mg. but the ood bad day? that;s ok, im not going to panic, because we all have to odd crap day, it;s normal, and its no big deal)
sparrow01
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oops, typing correction above:
"speaking for myself, i felt crap at 5-6 weeks on 200mg"
should instead read:
"speaking for myself, i felt crap at 5-6 weeks on 100mg"
vanessa45115 sparrow01
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Thanks a lot, you just gave me the reassurance I was looking for. I was on 100 for 7 years and I went to 150. This was actually the first real bad day since July 31st (I keep a diary, that's how I know). When I get a bad day, the good days seem like they never were but I will stay positive and I will get this under control. Thank you sparrow
sarah62025 vanessa45115
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Hi Vanessa,
Yes, sparrow is right. In my case it took 9-10 weeks before I found any real improvement. I have been on sert. before, long term, as well. I think when you re-start, it seems to take longer to kick in, don't know why that should be. Stay with it, you'll soon be back to your old self :-)
vanessa45115 sarah62025
Posted
Thank you Sarah, glad to hear that this morning😊