Situation Anxiety Help! Sertraline week 5
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Hi Everyone I am new to these forums but i want to tell my story, I got married to the man of my dream ( cheesy ) back in april i had the worst anxiety symptoms leading up to the wedding!!! Just nerves that everything would be perfect and it was!!! When we got maarried the anxiety just left me!! 
but we have just bought a house and are currently waiting for the keys and all of a sudden the anxiety is back.... Doctor gave me diazepam and sertraline 25mg i did for three weeks it was terrible then 50mg for 2 weeks week one of 50mg was fine started to feel normal again but this week has been terrible i actually had to get an antisickness injection to stop me throwiing up!! Appetite is basically gone!! Currently living with in laws so i am really just looking for some reassurance!! Do i stop the tabs or stick with it? The doctor has said it is situational and will pass but that is sooo hard to accept when you feel terrible... mornings are unbearable!! Please advise x
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Depress75 tan87651
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Hi
I was taking sertraline for nearly 3 months and i felt very unwell taking it. My anxiety became less for a short time but I didn't feel well. I still felt very down. I weaned off it and coming off it realised how toxic it must be! If it makes you feel so ill then how can it be good for you? If come off it. Drs and medical world learn how medicine is the answer. Not necessarily. Diazepam occasionally is better than something constantly drilling into your system. I'd look at what you're eating and drinking and your sleeping. Considering all the stresses around you and working out what is making it so bad.
tan87651 Depress75
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It is scary what it can do!! I think I will drop the dose back down to 25mg and hopefully once I get the keys to my house and myself and husband are on our own things might be better!! We are living in a busy household with a lot of drama I'm not used to drama !!! So mayb you are right maybe I need to find the source and deal with it instead of taking tablets left right and centre ... I also have strep throat so I am unwell with it so I am taking tablets to boost my immune system ... Walking and trying to eat healthy although eating isn't easy!! 😷 How are you feeling now?
Depress75 tan87651
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It's very scary.
I understand why people go on medication, and its the only way for many health problems.
But if the medical world focused on what we already have naturally good for us I don't think there'd be as much ill health.
I comfort eat when I feel crap but eating crap just makes it all worse. Not good.
Stress is a killer, I've had more stress than ever these last 2 years so I understand you feeling anxious in your current situation. It's the fear of not knowing what's going to happen isn't it? The lack of control in a situation is horrendous and frightening. You've done a lot this year. Life can be very difficult! Although a lot of excitement and joy. A real roller coaster.
I'm feeling up and down still, but nothing like the fog and depression I felt on sertraline. I was so spaced out all the time. I am still going through a lot of stress so it's not going to get better yet.
Mental health nurse came to see me yesterday (2 weekly visits) and they agreed if I don't want to be on anti depressants then I shouldn't have to be. It didn't help me. I've been on various antidepressants like fluoxetine previously.
They also said I'm not mad and I'm stressed because I'm frustrated with the situation I'm in.
As long as we keep trying.... My anxiety is up and down, I try to sleep when I can. Nights are tough. Can't sleep then can't wake up once I'm asleep if you understand? Vicious cycle.
One day at a time.
I hope you start to see light at end of the tunnel. Xx
Dadoo tan87651
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Hi tan
I feel for you!
I started on 50mg of sertraline in April this year after a series of upsetting events during the year, one of which loosing my mum.
Like you I felt awful dreadful anxiety, not wanting to leave my home, loss of appetite, grinding teeh insomnia and so on.
My gp upped the sertraline to 100ml thinking the 50mg was not enough. Still my symptoms persisted to the point I had to leave my job of 5 yrs. The symptoms continued on and on until another trip to my gp. She then upped my set to 150.
I have been taking the 150mg for 3 weeks now and got so bad in my second week I pleaded with my husband who has been amazing through this nite mare. I cried and pleaded that I need help. I cudnt do this no more, if this was how it was going to be I didn't want it no more.
I was in a very bad way.
My husband made an appointment to see a psychiatrist we had a private consultation on Tuesday evening.
After listening to me talk and cry and talk and sob for over an hour she told me I was very poorly indeed. Suffering from severe anxiety and depression.
She told me that at this present moment I would not benefit from any therapy.
Firstly was to alter my medication.
I am tapering off the sertraline and on to mirtazapine so I am currently taking in 100 set and just 15mg of the mirta.
She told me that although sertraline worked very well with some people it can also disagree with others having the opposite affect and making my issues escalate.
I would reed people's views on here about just having to bare with the side effects as you will get there!!!
I never got there, and I feel I gave it time enough.
I'm just one of those it never touched the sides and I dread to think what I'd have done if I continued any further down that terrible dark road.
I am only on my second day of the tapering so time will tell.
Physiatrist said it will take around 3 weeks before I get any benefit.
I pray it works.
Sorry for the autobiography. 😊 hope it helped a little. Xx best of luck
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