When do you know it's time to come off?
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Hi everyone,
I'm on 100mg of sertraline having gradually built up. It's now been 9 mths and things are going pretty well. The only noticeable side effect that has remained really is its effects on sex.
I don't want to be on medication, so I'm wondering now if I should think about tapering off. Thing is tho, I also kind of think maybe some of us just need a little help with our moods. However, my mum has just received some worrying health news and I didn't cry - this concerns me, what if I'm going thru life without really being me, without really feeling.
And then there's the good old inner critic telling me I would go back to a life of anxiety without sertraline and that I won't be able to cope on my own.
Interested to hear people's views / experiences of life after sertraline.
Thanks for reading.
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deborah12336 kikidee76
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imelda16796 kikidee76
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kikidee76 imelda16796
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imelda16796 kikidee76
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kikidee76 imelda16796
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I think I will just really take my time with it - go down to 75mg for quite a while, then 50mg & so on. I thought 100mg was quite average - my Dr told me anything less than that wouldn't do anything and I did personally find that to be true.
In all honesty my first ever real panic attack was a few weeks into sertraline so I'm kind of trying to hold on to that fact whenever I doubt myself and whether I can handle coming off them.
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david49878 kikidee76
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Any comments? Not sure I helped you, but since I have probably the last 7-8 years of experience with this drug, I thought I would make a rare post.
imelda16796 david49878
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kikidee76 david49878
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It's a pain being tired all the time isn't it, I am too but in all honesty I always have lacked energy! I have low blood pressure and also going thru premature menopause (yep, female!) so that doesn't help.
Some Drs can be useless can't they - better reading up on these things ourselves. I hope you find a better balance between your medications that start to improve for you.
deborah12336 david49878
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don45258 kikidee76
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deborah12336 don45258
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don45258 deborah12336
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kikidee76 don45258
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Good luck
don45258 kikidee76
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Did you feel worse in a morning ? Did you have negative thoughts ? Like I said it's been 5 weeks on 50mg 2 weeks on 100 mg gp told me 3 weeks and they will be working 😁 R u back to you old self ? Sorry for all the questions it's just there on my mine feel like I'm never going to get better
kikidee76 don45258
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It's no miracle pill Don, not for me anyway. I know you're looking for that but it takes effort too to live with anxiety. This pill has taken away alot of fear for me but I kind of think it's just a sort of numbing.
I think distraction is the best tool you can have in your kit. Practice noticing negative thoughts and it's not even about fighting them cos that creates tension. Just calmly say 'right that way of thinking is doing me no good, it's not helping me' and start noticing other things going on around you etc. I've even started thinking of my anxiety as boring, like not scared of it just bored of it when it tries to rear up!
Good luck with it.