Hi all,
I started taking these because i was really low. My gf split up with me and then i just started getting so depressed. I've had to take two weeks off work. My doctor said it might not be that i was dumped but a build up of stuff over a period of time, which i agree with.
I have noticed some improvement but im finding life unbearable at the moment. I know time is the greatest healer but its just going so slow. I just wish it would speed up so i can be myself again. I'm on 50mg a day. What would happen if i took 100mg?
Hi andycatt, I wouldnt recomend it the higher the dose the harde it is 2 get off and probably intensify the side effects. I no its frustratin but they dont work over nite and tend 2 take about 4/ 6 weeks b4 they fully kick in.
Good luck.
Thanks Shadow, i feel alot calmer now. I'm trying to stay positive. But sometimes it just creeps up on me. I just wanna be my self again but i know its gonna take a while.
Its nice to know people get there in the end!
Hi AndyCatt, I had same problem as you, split from x and lots of things over period of time which lead me to start feeling not myself, I end up having anxiety, stress and depression. GP sugested 50mg sertraline, which I didn't really wanted to be on tablets, but didn't have a choice then. Now I am on week 14, in the beggining was very hard (lots of different side effects), but it became easy after 5-6 weeks just with 1 odd day off in the week. It was ok until end of week 13 and now for last 4-5 days I feel very down again (tired, weak, back pain, appetite getting low, tearfull and etc.), I went to gp and she said that is side effects, but I don't know how long they will last??? 
But recomended to take for 6 months, I don't know if I can wait so long, it seems ages already.
But I think you don't have to up the dose as shadow said, I was thinking same thing, but now don't want, is only thing I want to get off of them as soon as possible.
Good luck.
Hi K,
When I first started taking these, I also wanted to come off them ASAP, however, I found that this was one more thing that I was worrying about. So I now consider them as a friend that will help me in getting better. I am in the frame of mind that I am desperate to get better and will consider any medication necessary to achieve this.
Hi kirk,
Thanks for replay, I understand what you saying, but how long have you been taking medicine, what dose and do you have side effects? Do you think is medicine helped you alot since you start taking them and do think of coming off them? Sorry asking you a lot, I just wonder how others doing. I am on wek 17 now, I feel much better than when I started, but I feel sometimes strange, headaches, itching neck, head etc., feel very tired too... just wonder if this is side effect? Will that end sometimes or only when stop taking the tablets :?: 