I haven’t been happy on sertraline for a long time. Been on them 6 months and they made me feel rotten. Every morning I’d have an awful stomach. I’d feel sleepy a lot and spend a lot of time in bed with no motivation.
I was on 150mg. I told my doctor I didn’t want to continue them. He was always against giving me medication and he told me to drop down to 100mg for 2 weeks and see how I feel to drop to 50mg.
I decided to just stop. I was already fed up of them. I know people advise against this, and in no way do I condone it, but I felt like the side effects of withdrawal couldn’t be any worse than I already felt taking them.
It’s the end of day 4. I haven’t had any problems to be honest apart from brain zaps. But I’ve had them coming off other meds so I’m no stranger to them.
I changed my diet 4 days ago to a frugivore diet. This means 70% of my calories come from fruit, and the other 30% can come from anywhere but ideally veggies. I still eat meat in my 30%. I cut out dairy and sugar and only drink pure filtered water.
Sugar cravings are hard to deal with so I do have the odd cup of tea, or bit of chocolate. I instantly feel terrible after I eat sugar, chocolate, dairy or junk food. So I no longer consume it.
Since switching my face has cleared up. No oily skin. My poops have gone back to normal and are as hard as a rock (sorry, lol) which I’m super happy about. I no longer have nausea too. I feel good overall and I feel like I’m going in the right path.
Mentally I feel great too. I have been self medicating with cannabis and my doctor is aware, tbh I’m hoping to be one of the first to get it on a script here in the UK because it’s always helped me out so much. I have aspergers too and it helps me become “normal”.
I dealt with 2 deaths in a short space of time and I hit rock bottom. Sertraline helped me get out of my hole, and help me come to terms with death. But it was never a long term thing.
Thanks for all the help and support 