anixtey

Mental health
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HI i am new to this site ,so this is my first post i to suffer from really bad anixtey the doc put me on sertaline 150mg have been on this for over ten weeks and i still have bad side effects i shaky all over and still wake up at 5 am every morning my mornings are bad but get a bit better in the evenings,i really think i need to go back to citalopram ,which i have been on before about 5 years ago, but i am to scared to change because of the side effects again has any one gone from sertaline to citalopram ,and how was it,..HELP

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Hi Jane. This is my first post too !! I was on a medication about 10 years ago called Venlafaxine, but I gradually came off them as I thought I could cope. Sadly 3 years ago I had a setback and was put on Propranol tablets, which seemed to suit me. I have not tried Citalopram, but my mother has been on them for 12 months and they have really helped her. I don't know much about Sertaline, so can't really advise.

I can say that I feel terrible in the mornings, and generally improve through the day, I have suffered with stress/anxiety for 35 years and tried CBT twice, sadly it did not help me much. I wish you well for the future, and hope things improve for you. 

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thanks darran do you wake up early two with anxiety,

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Hi Jane. I want to just lie in some days, but as a F/T Carer for my parents, and an only child living at home, I have to get up to sort them out..lol !! Def feel worse in the mornings, some days feel ok bout 11 or about lunchtime. If I have an appt or need to go somewhere, I am even worse, can't sleep, keep waking up checking the time and feel horrible inside.