I've been on sertraline for 4 months now finally reached 200mg for the past 12 days still waiting for sertraline to work, I haven't felt my normal self since June last year! Anyways I have had flu the past 4 days and it seems to make everything a million times worse, I am already stuck in my own little world, stuck in my own thoughts all day but it seems to be far worse, I just feel 'yuk!'. Anybody else like this with the flu?
Omg Paula don’t tell me it takes that long to work as I’m only on 6wks at 100mgs. I haven’t felt like myself for a few months now and still feeling detached. It’s so scary I just want to feel like myself again, I’ve ad abit of a cold and sore throat and it just makes matters worse 🌹
Hi Debra i swear I'm so sick of waiting to feel normal again, still feel like im going nuts but can't panic or get anxious over my thoughts because of the medication (which is good😊
, just feel like im walking around in my own little world, still feel like im not really here!
Hi Pamela that’s excatly how I feel. I feel like I’ve lost myself to this horrible anxiety. I woz on paroxatine for 17yrrs tho ? And changed to sertraline which I wished I never did. I don’t know wether that’s why the sertraline is taking so long to kick in or it’s still quite early , I just hope they start working for me soon cus I get so anxious waiting.thinking they’re never going to work at all 🌹
I was on citalopram for 7 years and they pooped out on me that's why I went to sertraline, maybe it's because our brains have been so used to the other medication that it's taking a while to kick in! I feel so lost! I have lost the old me and just want myself to come back, I'm a shell just on robotic mode, it's not nice is it, I went to see a psychiatrist in December for a evaluation and she's just got back to my doctor saying I should be on venlafaxine, I told my doctor I will give sertraline 6 more weeks but to be honest I'm giving up hope with the sertraline but dreading tapering off them to start a new drug and to go through all this mental sh*t again.
Hi Pamela. I took the Aussie flu on the day I was supposed to change over to sertraline after tapering down to 10mg escitalopram. I had been so looking forward to making progress as had been stuck inside my head since October. But the GP advised to hold off on cross over until i was on the mend from the flu. The flu is horrible and did exacerbate my anxiety as I felt I was stuck for another while. I started my sertraline 13 days ago. 50mg. Still not seeing much improvement. I hope you feel better soon. Lots of fluids, paracetamol and rest. Hugs, Gabrielle x
Thanks Gabrielle 😊 yeah I've been taking it easy lol did buy lemsip so then I read your can't take then with sertraline so I'm just having paracetamol, I hope the sertraline works soon for you Gabrielle x.
Hi ladies.
i did take about 10 weeks before I felt the benefits of sertraline and the horrible side effects to go completely.
Im on the smallest dose because I am sensitive to most medication, but iv been on it for nearly a year, and it’s given me my life back again,
i will see my gp for a check next month but don’t think I’m ready to come off it yet.
But it will take longer for it to settle in your system if you keep needing to up your dose.
it does work for most people, but does take a few weeks, hope things settle down for you too.
Thank you so much for your reply Julie. It gives me the motivation to keep going, to battle through each very difficult day at the minute. The GP has said it will take time and to use the 2mg diazepam as and when necessary but I hate taking it.
Hi Julie wot dose was u on? Wen it took 10wks. Did u feel detached and felt as tho u lost ureself? It’s really scary feeling like this. But as u said it took u 10wks so hopefully there’s still abit of hope for me yet. Thanks julie🌹
Thanks for your reply Julie ☺ I actually feel like I am brain dead, I hope it changes my life for the better! 😊
Hi Debra
yes I did feel detached I think most of us starting on this medication does, but it will go.
im on 25mg which has taken the edge off my health Anxiety,
i still have a bit of anxiety but I dont think now that I’m going to drop down dead like my mum did at 60 years old and I was there too with my two sons who were only 10 and 13, so it scared me and them. Also losing my husband to cancer. When I was 48 and he was only 54. Felt like I was going mad. That was 10 years ago.
Yes when I started the side effects was horrendous, at one stage I thought they weren’t going to work for me, but one day I was singing to a song on the radio and then I knew I had started to come out of the black hole.
I asked to be put on them, I felt that my mind and body needed a rest from all the anxiety that had caught up with me over the years.
You will get there luv, hope they start working for you soon so you can enjoy life again 😘
Your welcome.
that will go I promise, 😘
That’s so sad juli wot I’ve been threw.how long did it take to properly kick in wiv u? I’ve been on 100mgs now for the past 6wks very much only slight improvement. I just wait till I start feeling like myself again. Thanx julie🌹
I took about 10 weeks.
I suffer from acid reflux and being on these has made it a bit worse that is one of the side effects which probably won’t go away with me.
keep us posted on how you are doing x
Julie, i take 20mg esomeprazole to help with the acid reflux and if it still doesn't settle I take a spoonful of gaviscon advance. My insides would feel like they're on fire if I didn't use the esomeprazole. It's definitely as a result of the anxiety...it's the first thing at becomes affected when I'm anxious. Hope this helps xx
I was on lansoprozol for 5 years and it stopped working for me, I do have gaviscon every night before I go to bed and try not to eat or drink the things that trigger it,
but today’s been a bad day for reflux, but my partner is going away with work and my job is getting stressful so it’s making me anxious hence the reflux.
Thank you for the advice.
Are you taking sertraline for health Anxiety if you don’t mind me asking xx
Initially it was panic disorder but it seems to have evolved and therapist says I now have generalised anxiety disorder at a high level. I would get anxious about my health but not in the sense of finding a lump and assuming its cancerous etc. I'd be more anxious when having to take medication in case it harms me in some way.
I'm really not feeling with it today I feel super detatched, I don't know if I have the flu or side effects! I have been on 200mg now for 2 weeks and I never had any side effects when I started sertraline only feeling spaced out now and then. I started to have a headache and week ago then the next day sore throat, body aching, generally feeling unwell, the sore throat subsided after 3 days, but now I feel sick, achey, really detatched then usual, headachey, tired. I think I could feel the chemicals in my brain changing this morning, I also feel agitated and more anxious. I'm confused whether these are side effects and can you get side effects on 200mg even though I never got them before?
Hi, started on 50mg for 2 weeks and moved to 100mg, side effects, headaches, nausea, and brain dead. But anxiety easing a bit, have these flu like symptoms but I think I was ran down from too much work. So going to stick on them, no other choice, nightmare to live with, I came off effexor 7 moths ago, really shouldn't have, but the doc said these have less side effects, so going to give them a go.
What I took for side effects, paracetamol for headache, ginger beer for nausea (wonder drink, fever tree) nothing for brain dead just have to keep at them it will go eventually.
Now on the funny side I'm Irish and like a pint on Sunday (well quite a few 7-8) last week had about 7 not a budge not even tipsy, waste of my money, so pondering about going out today. I know I hear people saying you shouldn't mix alcohol bla, de bla, but I say im going on this pills to make be better not to become a hermit.