Sertraline 50mg
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started this 17 days ago for my anxiety depression and ocd i have not suffered from these a good number of years and all of a sudden bang it hits me again!! life has been hard for me for many years but i managed to get thru it on my own and have 2 wonderful children 8 and 4 and my son is ASD autistic and fragile x syndrome!! he is 4 i never rest and am always on the go all day and night 7 days a week...i felt like everything has got to me its been pilling on for months and months does not help when u have a partner that does nothing with u or the kids and feel at an all time low sweaty hands. palpitations crying and i decided enough was enough i rang the drs and they put me on 50mg of sertraline never been on them before wish i hadnt !! i feel unable to cry and no emotion lack of interests and tired aswell as cry talking to myself and knowing im doing it really hard to eat but force myself to have 3 meals a day!!! feel tight in my chest sometimes and sometime nausea!! surely at day 17 this should have subsided no day is the same! i take me pill at 8:30 evening try keep up till 10 but still wake up at 4am every morning i do manage to get back to sleep!! anyone that can help with advice id appreciate it alot!!!,
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Aimee87 kimberley69393
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The side effects can take a while to wear off and for the medication to actually start improving the way you feel. For me with Sertraline, after 3 weeks I started to see a real improvement in my anxiety levels but side effects took longer to wear off even then! If you can stick with it, its worth it x
kimberley69393 Aimee87
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Aimee87
thank u my lovely was thinking i was going nuts on this it is hard to possibly concentrate most of the time!! but i will persevere with it thank u. xx
charles61038 kimberley69393
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Try taking your medication in the mornings instead of night time. It does take a while for the effects to take hold. I started on 25 mg for several weeks. Then upped to 50. I had to go back down to the 25 mg for a while... I am slowly increasing by cutting one 25 mg in half and taking 37 mg... I will up to 50 at some point. But the chest tightness and other side effects will improve... but do try to take it in the mornings and see if that helps. Good luck to you.
kimberley69393 charles61038
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Charles i originally took it in the mornings but could not cope with side effects so took it at night nausea was the worst for me and the dizziness so i take it at night but feel the mornings are not the best to wakeup to at the moment!! will give it another try though but do have a call from mh nurse on thursday so see what she has to say im dreading when she says i think its time to up the dose!!! seriously though im 41 and feel really allover the place at the moment!!
thank u ☺
c53732 kimberley69393
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l have been taking it in an evening, 8 ish after my meal. l found that taking it in a morning made me feel quite nauseous. Getting on for 6 weeks, some better days but have difficult times as well. People say stick with it, it takes time.
GodsServant kimberley69393
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Try taking it in the morning, so it doesn't interfere with your sleep. I know you may experience other side effects by taking it in the morning, but the side effects will slowly get better. I've been on this drug for more than half my life and experienced all sorts of side effects, nausea, dizziness, palpitations, hot/cold, brain zaps, diarrhea, constipation, you name it, I've probably had it.
Another thing is - try NOT to take any caffeine with this drug, esp like tea or coffee in the evening. You can try taking decaffeinated tea with your med in the evening and see if this doesn't interrupt with your sleep.
I hope this helps, hang in there, prayers coming your way.
kimberley69393 GodsServant
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hi GodsServant
did u have hand sweating aswell and sinus problems? i heard that it can cause this but not sure?
thank u soo much for ur advice god bless you! x
GodsServant kimberley69393
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YES! I had LOTS of sweating. Actually I still do now sometimes when I'm really stressed out and I am currently on 100mg daily. I can certainly tell you that anxiety itself can cause excessive palm sweating, in my case, forehead most noticeably. As for sinus problems, I don't recall specifically, but I guess this could be that there were other more bothersome side effects. Also, I'll be honest with this, whenever I go through an attack, my mind is so messed up that sometimes my thoughts, anxiety, fears, etc. make every little thing seem more exaggerated than it really is. So this could just be your mind playing tricks on you. I sometimes think I am dying of some rare disease whenever when I am in a very anxious state.
Take care - take it very easy until to get back to your normal state. God bless.
charles61038 kimberley69393
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I will sometimes wake up in the middle of the night wet with sweat. I am not hot, just sweating. It will pass quickly. This doesn't happen often, but it is one of the side effects.