Sertraline Please Help!!!!
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Hi
Can someone please tell me what I should do?!? I have been on Sertraline for over 3 months now and I'm still a nervous wreck! I am loads better than I was but should I still be feeling so shaky and uptight with stomach churning? I started on 50mg and after a couple of weeks was "upped" to 100mg then 150mg! However the shaking was so bad that the doctor advised me to reduce back down to 100mg 3 weeks ago! However I've noticed that the shaking is even worse than before I started to reduce! After reducing to 100mg the shaking and uptight feeling went away from day 2 but has come back in the past week again. If this is just withdrawal symptoms and it will pass then I can bear with it, but I'm starting to wonder if this drug just isnt working for me and making everything worse! The stomach churning has been here all day and this is the second day I've had it. I was put on this medication after my mum passed away and although I've had some good days, they are far outweighed by the bad now! Should I go back up to 150mg and the shaking will eventually pass or should i stick with the 100mg and the shaking and stomach churning will pass? I just want the shakiness to go away now! Please can someone let me know if they had the same. I've read through loads of posts now and I dont see anyone mentioning the shaking and stomach churning :-( Feeling very anxious now :-( :-( :-(
Thank you xxx
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kathy_06966 jacqui1978
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yes thank you very much, keep posting also. If these shakes ever go away I will feel a lot better i know........ xx
jen48611 jacqui1978
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My condolences on the loss of your mum. I think the physical symptoms you're experiencing are down to extreme anxiety and not necessarily a side effect of sertraline. When I lost my dad my anxiety levels were so high my whole body twitched all over. I didn't sleep for 4 days, that made it worse and it was the start of a breakdown. Please believe me when I say I know what you are going through. The grieving process takes a LONG time. At 3 months you have only just started, please don't be so harsh with yourself as to think you should begin to be "on the mend" already. While the sertraline will be a good crutch to help you through a very difficult time (it helped me), I honestly think you'll benefit from some bereavement therapy. If the sertraline isn't working it may be because what you may really need to do is grieve... Grieve massively. I hope I've been to harsh here, but what you describe sounds so familiar to my own experience and in the end it was the therapy that helped hugely, with the medication just keeping me functional while I was going through the process. All the best.
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Thank you so much for this, I'm maybe debating increasing back up to the 150mg as I think the same as you, and with the passing of a parent, maybe isnt the best time to be playing about with dozes of meds! I'm so sorry about your mum! I honestly know this is possibly the most devestating thing in the world to experience! I'm going to maybe try and see if i can stick to one doze for about 6 weeks as I read somewhere that it can sometimes take this long to actually take effect properly, so I will update this if I feel any better in 6 weeks! Fingers crossed for me and you too!!! I will also maybe ask about general anxiety disorder at that point if I'm still so bad! Take care and thanks again for posting! Stay strong!!!! xxx