Hi. Ive been on 100mg for 8 weeks now and my thoughts and anxiety are as bad as before i started and 10 x worse than on 75mg. I just dont know what to do. Feeling so down
Hi Kathryn
Sorry to hear you are no so good. Maybe this particular medication is not for you. I would advise that you take a trip back to your doctor. Don't get despondent, easier said than done I know but doing nothing is not an option. If you feel no better or worse even, change the medication. Xxxx
Sorry to hear things dont seem to be working out, Im also only giving this a few more weeks and if I see no further improvement my doctor wants to switch me to another AD 😕
Kathryn, I started at 50mg, went to 100mg after two weeks and when I got to my eighth week was feeling worse than before starting sertraline. I am overly sensitive to medication and haven’t found anything yet that I seem to tolerate. When I called my doc to see what to do, it was extremely disappointing to be told to start tapering off, I was really hoping this would be the one. If you are told to stop, please be sure you get a tapering plan in place. I’ve been cutting down in half each week and it’s been pretty tough at that. The combination of more sustained anxiety and no real change in depression and constant nausea and abdominal issues is what made me throw in the towel. Since reducing, the abdominal issues are improving a bit, I just feel flu like and my neck and shoulders are hurting a lot. After starting my taper, I saw posts advising a more gradual drop than my doc suggested and kinda wish I went that route. No immediate plans for something new to try, we shall see. Keep in mind, some folks get the benefits of sertraline after a longer start period than others, if you can tolerate what you’re going through a bit longer, you never know, it may be better soon. I just couldn’t tolerate it myself, we’re all different. Best of luck to you.
I have the drs in a few weeks so will persevere until then and see what he says. Thank you. Ive tried so many different ones
Sorry you arent seeing good results either i have tried different ones and am starting to feel that nothing is ever going to work hope you feel better soon
Thank you. I am seeing the dr in a few weeka so will persevere until then and hopefully something will change within that time. Sorry to hear you are having a hard time too and really hope you feel better soon