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Sertraline and feeling overtired!

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daniel99713
daniel99713

I have been taking 50mg for about 6 months, and like most of you the beginning for me was difficult. I asked myself should I carry on because my anxiety made work seem like the most impossible thing, all that talking, smiling or even eye contact was bloody hard work! 

But it does get better. Taking Sertraline is no walk through the park, you will have to work with it and fight its side effects to get the most from it. I still feel overtired every morning and want to sleep until midday, this feeling is always there. I don't lay in however, as this creates more anxiety for me when I do get up and leads to me feeling low in mood for the rest of the day. I try to get up every morning, early. In doing so I see improvements in myself, I am more lucid and more positive. I look forward to seeing friends and even going to work!

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  • lattifa7777
    lattifa7777 daniel99713

    Posted

    Hi daniel I'm also on 50mg and have been for 7 weeks now. I was doing really well from 4 weeks, but X'mas day I took a dip and had a panick attack, since then I've gone off my food again, so 4th day now where I feel the anxiety, today not as bad. But can I ask did you get bad dips? And if so how long would it last? I'm not sure weather I need a dose increase? Or should I try and tough it out a bit longer?

    Thank you

    • daniel99713
      daniel99713 lattifa7777

      Posted

      I think you should carry on with it lattifa. Sert for me was no 'quick fix' and I had a lot of dips to begin with. Don't expect too much from yourself if it isn't working, carry on, you have made a decision to take this med so stand by that decision. If your bad dips are affecting you everyday and all you think about is the medication you are in the same place I was in months ago, and i'm now ok :-)
    • lattifa7777
      lattifa7777 daniel99713

      Posted

      ahhh that's given me hope, thank you Daniel.

      What dose are you on, and how long before you felt normal with no blips?

      X

    • Shelly0069
      Shelly0069 lattifa7777

      Posted

      Sorry Lattifa, 

      for not getting back to you been working and be back in shortly for another day.......

      Yes UNFORTUNATLY a blip happened by me forgetting to take Sertline for a few days....

      Had awful anxioty ( which I very rarely have) very Restless......

      i have actually been to the chemist and spoke to the pharmestest to see if I can stay on what I was orinally on as Im on different  pack of Sertline which are Blue tablets by a different company and if anything they have made me worse..........it's crap what they tell u about all tablets are the same even the pharmasest agreed with me

      im returning back tonight to see her, and pick up my new perscription WISH me LUCK!!!

      let you know my result at what I have been given?...x

  • Shelly0069
    Shelly0069 daniel99713

    Posted

    Hi Daniel, like you I have been taking Sertline for 5 1/2 months....the only time it made me tired was when I first started taking them Obviosly a new drug in the system.....mine have always been white BUT this time mine are Blue? And again made me extremly tired!!!!!.

    agree with you 100% on your quotation have to think positive......

    or curl up in a little ball! Nerrr fight it 

    this has worked for me I forgot for days to take my tablet over the Christmas period until I realised...and being honest I was becoming to feel a little depressed then I realised about taking Sertline!!!!!!........I remembered yesterday..... And instantly felt calmer and happier within hours!!!!!! 

    Soooooo I agree for me anyway it's a definite good drug for me....

  • m47kumar
    m47kumar daniel99713

    Posted

    Hi Daniel, I also feel same..tired all the time, but can focus well on work...but in the morning I do not want to get up, may be because of winters here in India..Its been 2 1/2 months as of now...I can see a lot of imprivement...But sometime I feel low in mood and has uncontolled thoughts, petty ones...They make me anxious, though no more Panic attack, but my BP fluctuate to 140/92...Not sure if anyone else has such side effects..TC..
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