Sertraline for anxiety whilst menopausal

I have been on Setraline for years, it does take a few weeks for your body to adjust to the right dosage, sometimes it does increase your anxiety for a few weeks, once your body adjusts to it. Setraline has helped me tremedously.

Hi Maxine - I've also just been prescribed this for the same reason, been taking it a week and so far it seems ok - though I've only been on 25mg, increasing to 50mg next week, hope it works for both of us - I've heard really good things - just requires patience.

ive been on sertraline for a couple of years now started at 25g then 50g then 100? i started reading side effects affects and realised i was in a visious circle because i was on them for health anxiety but the symtoms i seemed to have were making me anxious so the doctors kept upping my dose ! it was only when my best friend read deeper into it that alot of what i was feeling most recently

muscle twitching was linked to menopause , anxiety and sertraline can cause this too ,ive come off them which i know you shouldnt just come off bit felt i couldnt feel

any worse , well the difference is unmistakable , i feel

so much better , doctors look for the easy way out and think anti depressions will help , i am sure it does for some , bit dont be too quick into thinking they are the answer as i think for me they were the cause !

i have a prescription too but scared to take it ...dont need anxiety on top of anxiety and all these pills ads seem to make you more anxious

I was prescribed this by my ob/gyn after I had my daughter. I took only one dose and it gave me diarrhea. So I stopped taking it. Prior to that they prescribed Paxil and that gave me terrible anxiety and I almost fainted. So I don't mess with any pharmaceutical anti-anxiety medicine. I take herbal supplements for it like Lemon balm, Ashwaganda, and Rodalia Rosea. This comes in a combination capsule. I definitely felt the difference after the first dose. Read around and research which herbs help with anxiety. Good luck with your search

Hi Maxine,

I took SERT for Meno anxiety. initial side effects (increased anxiety) were awful (1st 3-4 weeks were the worst). i found it easier to increase in 25's til i 'found my dose' (150mg). ie. when i felt normal all of the time. trouble is i put on a huge amount of weight, so i swapped to prozac, 20 mg, which sometimes doesnt feel enough! if it weren't for gaining over a stone I'd have stayed on sert...once it worked, it was brilliant!