Hi, I've been waking up feeling anxious for the past two months. I'm 42 and have suffered with anxiety since being a child. My doctor increased my sertraline to 100mg last year and it helped a lot. But lately I've been struggling everyday. I try to practice deep breathing when i wake up and it usually passes by lunchtime. My problem is its making me feel like a failure. I help my daughter run her baking business and at the moment were extremely busy (usually working at least 12 hours a day). I also feel like I'm the only person feeling like this (obviously I know I'm not) and just wanted to reach out and chat with people like me.
Rest assure you not the only one suffering like this, I’m on sertraline but thinking of upping to 100mg.. Do you think working the long hours is affecting how your feeling.
I don’t think it helps. It definitely helped upping my dose to 100mg. Hope you are ok, its nice to have somewhere to communicate with others in the same boat
I just worry incase i get bad side effects going up to 100mg.. Yeah it’s always nice to chat to people going through similar things.
i know what you mean. I don’t remember having any bad side effects when I increased mine.
Hi,
Can I just ask if you’re a female. I ask this because I am and around your age I started with perimenopause symptoms and one of the symptoms I had was this terrible anxiety on waking. I too have had anxiety most of my life, but this was on another level and I finally had to give in to taking medication which I didn’t want to.
Hi, yes i am female. Thats interesting that you mention peri menopause because ive read quite a bit on it and did wonder! I also wake up freezing cold every morning, does this happen to you? When you say medication is that anxiety meds or for perimenopause?
Hi, yes i am female. Thats interesting that you mention peri menopause because ive read quite a bit on it and did wonder! I also wake up freezing cold every morning, does this happen to you? When you say medication is that anxiety meds or for perimenopause?