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kevin66749
kevin66749

Hi all

HELP!!!!!!!! after a few good days I feel like am back to square one! Feel really sick and anxious when I wake up and I don't understand why! Could this be the sertraline? Feel like am going nuts why a good few days then bang its back again. 

I have also run out of oxazepam which helps me for the here and now do you think its safe to take diazepam? 

I last took oxazepam 2.30 yesterday! Need something to calm me down now but don't want to mix drugs unless its safe

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  • hanky
    hanky kevin66749

    Posted

    Hey kevin, loads do have relapses etc, make sure you dont run out of tabs m8, especially if they help loads, i had bad day sumday and this morning but made it to work ( just)   grrrrrrrr
  • hanky
    hanky kevin66749

    Posted

    Hey kevin, loads do have relapses etc, make sure you dont run out of tabs m8, especially if they help loads, i had bad day sumday and this morning but made it to work ( just)   grrrrrrrr
    • kevin66749
      kevin66749 hanky

      Posted

      God I feel rough! Got the shakes and in a right panic! I knew I was gonna run out so went docs after work and said cant give me none till Monday! Ant gonna be able to get them till after work
    • anne33112
      anne33112 kevin66749

      Posted

      Hi Kevin i take sertraline and 10mg diazapam if this helps at all! good luck
  • jude1000
    jude1000 kevin66749

    Posted

    Hiya kevin

    for first six weeks I felt like you say - some days just bearable and other days extremely anxious.   Thought I was maybe on wrong tablets.  My anxiety was so bad I couldn't go to work and once or twice thought about going to A& E to get myself sectioned.

  • jude1000
    jude1000 kevin66749

    Posted

    Woops - sent before I'd finished.  After about 8 weeks my anxiety subsided and now after 2.5 months back into my routines and feeling ok.  It's so crappy what you're going through but in my experience, after 3 massive anxiety episodes in ten years, i realise that time is the healer with the tablets.  Jude
    • kevin66749
      kevin66749 jude1000

      Posted

      Thanks jude

      so did you get the morning sickness anxious and legs like jelly feeling

    • jude1000
      jude1000 kevin66749

      Posted

      Kevin - no those weren't my symptoms.  My symptoms were really bad terror that something bad was going to happen, and this fear got worse when I started the setraline, which is normal I believe.  I got really bad hot flushes and felt like I was going to faint sometimes.  I also seemed to have shaky hands.  The side effect of worsening anxiety with the setraline nearly led me to stop taking them, but I carried on and got better.  You'll be fine in a few weeks - it's just crap until you get there.  Jude
    • rstep04
      rstep04 kevin66749

      Posted

      Hi I'm having this at the minute ive been on 7 days 25mg sertraline now on day 2 50mg I feel awful and is making my anxiety worse
  • Yorkshire
    Yorkshire kevin66749

    Posted

    Hiya, this is totally normal. You can be up and down for the first 8 weeks. The 'relapses' will get better over the 8 weeks tho and you'll soon start to feel better again, and if you relapse again it probably won't be as bad as the first 2 weeks. 

    Just remember this won't last forever, it may only last this morning or the day.

    Don't feel you've gone backwards, it's part of it I'm afraid but does get easier. 

    You should be fine taking a low dose of diazepam with the sertraline. My doctors said I could if I needed to at the beginning. 

    Have you started taking your 50mg as one now in either the morning or night? 

    • kevin66749
      kevin66749 Yorkshire

      Posted

      Hi Yorkshire thanks for replying! Yes m8 ive been taking it in the morning as 1 whole tablet was supposed to start up to 100mg today but ive been feeling dog rough in the mornings so didn't do it.

      feel so sick, anxious and my legs feel like jelly and not hungry either (really have to force myself to eat) trying so hard to get throug these side effects

      Did you have any of these reactions

    • Yorkshire
      Yorkshire kevin66749

      Posted

      Yeah I had all of those side effects. I felt so disappointed as I'd started to feel better and then the side effects came back. They didn't last for long tho. 

      My first 2 weeks were the worst, I had mixed good and bad days and pretty horrible side effects. Weeks 3&4 I felt loads better. My mood dipped again weeks 5&6. Picked up in week 7 and by week 8 I was more or less back to me, living normally and feeling happy!

      You'll look back and these initial stages will seem such a long time ago. Just hang on in there, it'll soon pass. Don't feel disappointed. This is totally normal. Just crap for now. 

    • colin878
      colin878 kevin66749

      Posted

      Hi Kevin. I have been reading your posts and see they are from 6months ago. I would just like to know if your situation has improved since then?i am at week 3 of sedtralin 50mg and I am in what can only be described as the same situation you were?
  • jose79057
    jose79057 kevin66749

    Posted

    Talk to your doc about mixing meds Kevin. I am on my 12th day of Setraline and wake up anxious with little desire to do anything and no appetite at all. I will contact my GP to see if this will be temporarily or not cause I have lost 5 lbs already and I only weight 147 lbs. so far is not helping much.
    • kevin66749
      kevin66749 jose79057

      Posted

      This is actually how I feel really have to force myself to eat! Lot of people saying the same thing and takes 6-8 weeks feel so bad 2day got docs 2morrow
    • jose79057
      jose79057 kevin66749

      Posted

      I have read that appetite may come back after 2-3 weeks. Boy I hope so cause if not, is not really nice not to enjoy your food. Let me know if yours get better. I hope so!!! Good luck...
    • kevin66749
      kevin66749 jose79057

      Posted

      Cheers m8 gonna keep going on the tablets just living on chicken soup at the moment lol! Am sure we get through it
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