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lucy95690
lucy95690

hello all , ive been on sertraline for 3 weeks just over now and started on 25mg then after 2 weeks upped to 50mg but all the time ive been taking them im feeling spaced out like i could just sit in the chair all day and not move ...is this right ? will this stop ? anyone else feel the same ? i have severe social phobia and paranoid so it has finally helped with the bad thoughts and panics which is good but im not liking the spaced out feeling all the time , i tried taking them at night but felt like wernt getting the right affects as i need them working in daytime ...any help please ?

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  • gingemac1977
    gingemac1977 lucy95690

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    hi there,

    i was exactly the same, felt like a zombie for over a week, but it does pass, i take mine every morning, try and take it at the same time every day so it levels out better in your system. it takes a good 6-8 weeks to settle but after that you should start feeling better, some are worse than others, i started on 50mg and i'm on 150mg now and been on them for 10 months, the past 2 months being on 150mg has made a massive difference to me and stick with it, you will get through it :-)

     

    • lucy95690
      lucy95690 gingemac1977

      Posted

      aww thankyou i was in town today walking round like zombie and feels orrible this is week 3 so ill carry on taking them as been through this much with them and just want to have a normalish life without the social phobia as its the worst thing ever and lonely !
    • gingemac1977
      gingemac1977 lucy95690

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      yes, it certainly is, but you aren't alone, there are so many stories on here of peoples individual journeys.  you will see the light at the end of your tunnel believe me, i thought i was never going to get better and i was always going to be depressed and full of anxiety and bad thoughts, paranoia etc for the rest of my life!! sertraline has been a god send to me and i'm sure you will feel the same in a few weeks, although, it does take a few weeks to start feeling better and if you haven't got the right dosage for you, you might find yourself back and to to the doctors but it's well worth it in the long run and you will know when you're on the correct amount for you. all my negative thoughts and paranoia have pretty much dissapeared. i have the odd spate every now and again, that i can cope with!! it was 24/7 at my worst points and it was awful, i feel back to my old self now and it's all down to perseverance with the meds and don't let anyone put you off them with horror stories, everyone has a different experience with sertraline, some people it just doesn't suit but others have a great experience with it, i hope you get the same :-)

       

    • lucy95690
      lucy95690 gingemac1977

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      yes i had bad paranoia to i was at the end never felt so low couldnt get no lower than i was as i was even scared to go outside my house ..i still much prefer indoors but im getting there and its nice to know not on ur own ..did u put any weight on ?
    • gingemac1977
      gingemac1977 lucy95690

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      no i lost alot of weight to start with but starting to level back out now though.  what things did you used to get paranoid about if you don't mind me asking?? you thought people were talking about you and things like that?? my paranoia was about my boyfriend, i was convinced he was messing about behind my back and was constantly checking his phone etc, was totally out of control with it :-( i'm much more trusting nowadays :-)
    • lucy95690
      lucy95690 gingemac1977

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      if i went out and people were laughing i thought was laughing at me and it sent me cuckoo also i have alot of tattoos which dont help the situation just added to my self cofidence and so i get alot of looks , im like that with my bf but he cheated so i have reason to be but still check his phone ..laptop history and hate him leaving my site , but today in town i was fine couldnt careless bout people as much so the tablets are doing there job fingers crossed 
    • gingemac1977
      gingemac1977 lucy95690

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      why do boys do that!! and he expects for you to trust him again afterwards. i've been there and done that, my trust was shattered and things were never the same again for me, not with this boyfriend, with another one years ago, i was totally head over heels in love, he just wasn't, but i didn't know that at the time, i thought we were both on the same page and wanted the same things, we wern't at all.  so when i found out i couldn't stay with him because i knew the trust had gone.  i feel for you and you are very brave to stay with him after that, i know i couldn't. because of him, i've had trouble trusting people full stop after that. i consistently thought that my current boyfriend of nearly 2 years, was cheating or still speaking to his ex, hated him being on his phone and checked it all the time, nowadays i'm alot more relaxed, i still get niggles every now and again, but i do trust him more than i did but don't think i will ever trust another man 100% again. He's from newcastle, he's going back for the weekend next weekend without me to catch up with his mates etc, will be interesting to see how i cope with that!! i'm hoping i will be ok, but i still can't get it out of my head sometimes and it's an awful feeling to have. did you find out or did he tell you what he'd done?? 

      i'm so glad you felt better yesterday when you were out and about, don't worry about your tattoos, often what you're thinking people are thinking about you are totally wrong anyway. i bet alot of people were thinking they were ace, i love tattoos and it's what makes you unique and different to other people,  i admire people that are like that, so if someones got a problem, that's their problem, not urs, you are who you are and nobody can ever change that, at least you dare to be different, different is beautiful, so don't worry about that!! have yourself a good weekend and people that don't love you and accept you for who you are, get them out of your life and surround youself with people that do :-)

       

    • plainden
      plainden gingemac1977

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      Hi been on sert 50mg  for 6.5 wks now and felt awful for past 4 days.Before that i was really gd for 5 days.seeing doc on tues -do u reckon i shld increase dosage?When u increased dose did i get bad side effects again or not?why did u increase? when did u stop getting side effects?
    • lucy95690
      lucy95690 plainden

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      Yes when I increased dose I felt worse just feel like going backwards not forwards 
  • lucy95690
    lucy95690

    Posted

    hello and thanks for the nice message im having crappy day the tablets are making me so out of it im thinking to give em up as i have a little girl to look after to , my bloke i met online shock lol and i was in relationship long term and wasnt happy and he fell in love with me knew my situation child and partner but wouldnt give up on me so we chatted for a year i thought he was single as he never told me lived with someone bought hse etc and then finally met year later and i was not being able to get rid of my ex he wouldnt leave me etc and knew i found someone else so he finally moved out and i started this new relationship baring in mind was with my ex 9 years had child so was big thing for me but but about 6 months later i gets emails that he was living with his gf still but he was unhappy with her but he lied to me yes and he said she moved out and we carried on it was hard i was hurt then few months again i found out he was sleeping with her gain as he never livd near me so he was going back to his flat on the monday fter being ith me weekends it was nightmae but i alwys new there was something there to much between us to give him up he just was in situation where he had hurt his ex and felt guilty and couldnt get out the mess but he finally moved away from the area sold his flat he had with her and movd in with me but his phone is my phone and he is never out my site usually and i know how much he loves me so i dont right thing i went with my instincs , buttttt i dont and will never trust him which maybe in time will destroy us who knows . you are very brave letting him go the weekend as i coudnt do that lol id be in pieces but ur a stronger person than me and im sure if u didnt trust him u wouldnt let him go , im here if u need chat anyway ive been through lot so never judge and good to chat makes u feel not alone dont it !
    • gingemac1977
      gingemac1977 lucy95690

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      yes you got that spot on lucy, i don't really want him to go if i'm honest but i have to let him do his own thing, i can't control the future or what happens, we are planning on having a baby in the near future.  i'm not strong at all when it comes to stuff like that, just very stubborn and won't let people see how upset i am when really i'm in bits inside, it's just how i deal with things, i ended up self harming after that pig cheated on me, blaming myself and thinking i was ugly and a horrible person for him to want to do it. it was hell and i always follow the same rule, if someone does something like that and you find out, they gotta go!! the same to you too lucy, sounds like we are quite similar in our fragile ways.  i'm not as strong as what i seem, just put up a good front!! lol xx if you need a chat ever, you know where i am :-)

       

    • gingemac1977
      gingemac1977

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      thing is...........i have to trust him otherwise we are doomed and i don't want that, i don't think he's upto anything, it's just my inner demons saying things just at the right time, to make me paranoid and lose the plot sometimes, i have it under control at the moment, next weekend might be a totally different story, but i have to try :-)

       

    • lucy95690
      lucy95690 gingemac1977

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      i have a barrier up im a strong person but aint really lol i will bottle it up for so long then crash down i pretent im fine and ok with things but im annoyed inside dont like to let em know things bother me im very stubbon to , to be honest i suffer every day if he aint by my side but it takes time to get the trust back and if u think the relation is worth working on then i suppose its worth it time will always tell , he is very supportive and loving and dont never like being away from me it kills him even if he has to go a work he constantly texts me all day and he chooses for it to just have me and no friends cos we do get on very well so we dont have no one from the outside world involved in our lifes , think cos what we both been through we r safer to just have each other . i hope everything goes fine with u next weekend u just have keep busy not think about it to much hard tho aint it .
  • ray41687
    ray41687 lucy95690

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    Hi there,

      I started on it 3 weeks ago due to extreme anxiety- my mum had died a few months ago, and I had recently suffered a detatched retina. I was on escitalopram-but it wasn't working. For the first week, I too was like a zombie-I lived in a fog, didn't want to talk, laugh or go out.

        One day, I noticed I laughed at something, and from then on, the fog stated to clear. It's not easy, but I've found Sertraline a great help in alleviating the anxiety. 

         Persevere, but if you find it too much, go back to your GP. Am glad you've reached out to this site. Mental health is still very misunderstood.

            All best wishes to you

                  Ray

    • lucy95690
      lucy95690 ray41687

      Posted

      hi ray ive been taking it for 3 weeks now and still in such a zombie mode i havent took one today and feel more with it ..i feel like it is hightening everything making me feel worse .im glad ur feeling better i just dont no what to do !
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