Thank you a new day. This is really helpful as i had a terrible night as i told gods servant above. May i ask what your dosage of sertraline ended up being? i have been on 25 for 4 weeks and 50mg for 4 weeks I will wait however long possible if it means that i will get better again. I am a lot better from where i started (very strong sadness and hopelessness and suicidal thoughts) all of that has subsided a lot but i am still left with saddness and very high anxiety which leads to me being so overwhelmed i just cry. It is hard to think positive when you are just so overwhelmed but i will keep pushing!
Hi Taylor , you sound just how I was right at the beginning as well and believe me my husband didn't understand eather thaught it was all and still in my head , not there faults because if they never suffered From anziety or depression they can't understand what we all go through 😪So I found talking on here really healped 🙂But what you said about going up more with you tablets probably will help in time but do talk with your doctor in the new year and I know you will get back to your old self soon 😄🌞🌞
Hi Taylor, hope you are feeling a little better. I have been on sertraline for 2 weeks now and not feeling any better. I had the worst night last night couldn't sleep and stuck in a cycle of panic which still hasn't eased today. I'm so scared sertraline won't work and I'll feel like this forever. My doctor has told me to increase to 50mg from 25mg, bit he did say I should be seeing the benefit already which scares me that I haven't! Wouldn't wish this dreadful anxiety on anyone!
Sara x
Hello Sara,
I am very sorry about what you are going through. 25 mg is actually a children's dosage and the starting adult dosage is 50mg. For me, 25 mg didn't do much at all, I had a honeymoon period where I felt good
For about a week then crashed. But I did wait a month until I increased my dosage because I'm sensitive to meds. If you aren't sensitive then I would try and increase your dosage to 50mg. I did see some improvement in my mood and depression, also my sleep and my taste for food has come back and appetite ever so slightly. I'm looking to increase my
Dosage since it isn't really touching my anxiety. We can get through this. Hugs.
Thank you Anne. Can you give me some advice on what you did till the tablets worked? I feel like I try so hard to distract myself and sometimes it works really well but sometimes I just can't stop thinking about how I am feeling and if I'll ever be ok. Most days I just lay around trying to calm down and distract
Myself and at work I try hard to distract myself or I'm on my phone a lot.
Thanks for your reply Taylor, will increase my dosage to 50mg on Monday as suggested by the doctor and see how that goes. You sound like me in the way distraction helps, if I'm off out doing things I can feel relatively normal, yet if I'm at home or have nowhere to go my anxiety goes through the roof! I have lorazepam to take when needed but so scared of becoming reliant of it I rarely take it. I am also awaiting an appointment with a psychiatrist. Are you in the UK?
S x
No I am actually in the US. Psychiatrists here are extremely hard to get ahold of or find a good one. I have an appointment with one on feb 7th and she's not that good so I'm trying to find another in the mean time and have been these past two months. A lot either aren't under my insurance, don't call back, are retired or aren't taking new patients 
That's awful Taylor, makes me so cross that mental health issues just don't seem to be taken seriously. Here in the UK my doctor has also referred me to a psychologist for some long term therapy but I was told the waiting list could be up to 18 months! So frustrating. This forum helps me to see I'm not alone and stops me ringing the doctors every 5 minutes!
Hello Sara, yes fortunately I do have talk therapy but I don't think it's doing much for me. Only had 3 sessions but trying to hold strong. I noticed you were previously on another SSRI for anxiety before, did it help? Today my mind is so fixated on weather or not SSRI's will make me feel normal again.
Hiya Taylor, when I was home on my own I would watch happy films and reading , and I got myself a CD on breathing exercises and would put my earphones on and it always carmed me down too the point I would fall asleep 😊 So maybe investing in something like that would help you . Hugs x
Oh my god, I just can NOT stay at home doing nothing all day, I wish I could I used to be able to before this illness, now no matter what , wind rain sun, tornado I have to get out for a few hours at least I have to be busy with somthing I enjoy, or the anxiety just flares up, then depression 😢. I like to be around people, don't like being alone for too long at all, makes me feel so sad at times. But that's life hay.
I'm trying to cut down my 50mg sertraline just so scary
I live in the south in the us I am having a hard time finding a psychiatrist.They don't accept my insurance and for the first appt for 45 mins is $250 appointments thereafter are $150.It is so discouraging
I am just sitting here crying now I am so tired of this mess
Oh Pam, today has been hard for me too, I am fighting back tears and am
Trying to manage dinner tonight. Remember you have been on medication before that has sorted you out, don't lose hope and let the Sertraline work.
Thank you for being so positive Taylor!Hugs
Would you like to private message Pam ??? I would like to talk to you but don't wanna drag this discussion out for others
How do you private message
go to my profile and click the envelope
Sorry my bad, click the envelope next to my comment
Hey Taylor, I was on citalopram for 8 years and that seemed to work, although my anxiety was very much health anxiety then and this time it seems more general.... no idea why I feel so anxious and on edge all the time. I came off the citalopram in may and managed fine but was planning my wedding so my mind was rather busy! A month after the wedding the anxiety hit and I went back on citalopram but had to come off after 5 weeks as the doctor thought it was affecting my liver enzymes which showed up in a routine blood test. I went 2 months without anything but have reached the point where I can't fight this alone anymore so he put me on sertraline. Every day is such a struggle, I pray that sertraline will help!
Sending love x