Hi all,
I started 50-mg a week ago, and have had a lot of the 1-10 side effects in addition to nausea. My GP told me to increase to 100-mg after the first week, which was this morning.
I am having a terrible time today, worse than last week.
Is this what it like?.
Not sure I can hack it for 6 weeks to see if they are right for me.
its ruff i am going into week 6 I chose to stay at 50 after speaking to my Dr.
its ruff i am going into week 6 I chose to stay at 50 after speaking to my Dr.
omg please dont increase to 100mg that early it’s way too soon no wonder why you feel so horrible!
I started on 50mg and wow that was a shock to the system and i know people on 25mg
25mg is the lowest starting dose to ease you in and 50mg is the lowest therapeutic dose.
this is very bad advise from your gp and going straight to 100 can be way too much straight away.
I’m not a doctor but I’m sure everyone will agree with me to go back down to 50mg tomorrow. you need to give 50mg atleast 4 weeks for side effects to decrease at the earliest, I’m 5 weeks in and still getting side effects. you should leave it between 8-12 weeks before increasing your dose as upping so soon you might find 50mg is your dose that works and you’ve skipped straight past it.
there is a brilliant facebook sertraline support group that I have found very helpful. have a look on there aswell to help with this journey x
any improvement yet? x
I’m week 5 and feel crap x
potatoghost do you ever get intrusive thought.
yeah lynne all the time. multiple times a day x its anxiety and depression that makes you feel them and mine come along with a horrible adrenaline rush too x
Thanks.
i am forcing myself to go out more. its the fear of losing control. Doing something that is so alien to my character.
what kind of intrusive thoughts you get
going out is important. pushing yourself out of your comfort zone is important to teach yourself that despite the anxiety there is no danger and nothing bad will happen, eventually it will get easier the moor you do it. x
mine are mostly about not getting better and that I’m going to feel like this forever.
if I see anything remotely negative about not getting better I panick and fixate on that.
sometimes it will be something random like I was walking along the beach the other day to get some fresh air and had thoughts about throwing myself into the water.
I never would but it’s scary none the less.
worry about not getting better for my son too a lot.
loads of stuff! wbu?
Not getting better is way up there and yes my poor daughter from all this .
honestly she wont remember or notice much if shes a little younger bless her and I bet u doing the best you can x and that will be enough.
when you are better everything will go back to normal so try not to beat yourself up about that if you can x
do you have to push yourself to go out too
thank u i hope your right 
every morning I wake up panicky shakey and low so I get straight up, dressed and go straight out as mornings are worse so i go out when i feel my worst to push myself. it’s not easy but i have to try and leave my comfort zone x
have you seen any improvement since starting your meds at all? x
Hi Peter as potato has said it is far too early to increase, did your GP give a reason why he wanted you to be on a 100 so early in your treatment? The usual route is low and slow, starting at 25 for a week or two to see how your body and mind is going to react, if you are new to antidepressants then building up if need be, I spent 2 weeks on 25, 2 weeks on 37.5 then went up to 50, this way I managed to avoid all the really bad side effects, still had some but nothing major, once you are on 50 it is best to wait anything up to 12 weeks for things to really settle in then you can assess if you need an increase. Its up to you but I would go back down to 50 and see how you feel in 8 weeks time
its been up and down evenings are better. I need to work harder in AM. My worse symtom is feeling disconnected from myself. I hate that feeling.