i was on prozac 25mg for a month and now ive been on sertraline 50mg for two weeks, without a gap and i just feel nothing.
i dont remember things from a few weeks ago whereas i can remember before i started taking them. even more annoying i just feel nothing. i cant decide if the pain i felt before was better than the nothing i feel now.
i also have the WORST insomnia often awake for 3 days to 12 hours sleep.
i want to discuss this with my doc but all she does is tells me to wait 6 weeks and then if i complain more moves me onto other ad's
in a way i wanna stop taking them a LOT but i felt awful before hand but at least i felt something. im so scared of losing months of my life to various ssri's.
what should i do ?
Hi,
I read your post and think that 2 weeks not enough to feel better, I know its hard to go through that, because I was same as you and wanted to stop the tablets, but believe me you will feel better!!! Also you have to believe that tablet helps you and need to do most of it yourself too (go for some walk or do something you like, to take mind off, or talk to friends and family, regarding your sleep take sleep Kams or Nytol, you can find it from superdrug). I think you need to stay on tablet longer to see result, only tablet is not magic to do everything for you, be positive, everything is in your hands. The tablet takes from 2-12 weeks to get into your sistem, everybody is different. I am on week 10 now and feel much better, can't say 100%, but I do things, sleep better and more alive.
I wish you good luck! 
Hi k. Thanks for replying i get that it takes some to time to get going but right now i feel kinda like a zombie. I spend times with friends and its fun but the next day i just kinda forget it. Also i am having real issues getting motivated to do school work and im kinda lagging behind causei just can do it. Which brings me onto another question. Do you think i should tell my school about my depression? i have been taking days off from feeling so bad and not getting work in on time and they just think im a bad lazy student which sucks.
I just keep thinking that before i started them at least i felt stuff and got stuff done. Now i just am nothing.
Thanks
samuel
Hi samuelg, I feel very sorry for you. You said about school, which means you are very young and suffer from such a horrible depression. I don't know if you should tell your school about the problem, why don't you ask your family, what they think about it? But you must be on the week 3-4 now? That isn't long time to make Sertraline to work, espessially that you used to take other tablets before and came off of them and start sertraline. You must first had side effects of coming off one tablets and now you have side effects from sertraline.
Try do things a little bit, I know it is hard in this stage, but you will notice that later you will feel much better, but you need take them, so don't stop! Ask someone to help you with homework at the moment couple of months, so maybe it is good idea to talk about your problem to someone in school, up to you, you decide.
I wish you good luck.