I was prescribed 50mg of sertraline for anxiety and have now been taking it for 2 days.
On the first day I felt very nauseous and suffered loss I appetite, not great but could cope with that.
Today on my second day I have had to go to bed as I am weak, shaky and feel faint, numbness in my hands and lips and racing heart.
These feelings are making me panic and I'm not sure whether to continue taking sertraline until I can see my GP on Monday?
Hi mate I went through exactly what you are it is normal . You will feel like this for about 4 to 5 days
I my self broke the tablet in half and had it every 12 hour Until my body got used to the pills,it's only your body trying to reject it, they will help I have been on 50mg for 3 weeks now I am 100 as I feel I needed to. But yes again I split my 100 into 12 hours until I get used to them he that helps
Hi mate I went through exactly what you are it is normal . You will feel like this for about 4 to 5 days
I my self broke the tablet in half and had it every 12 hour Until my body got used to the pills,it's only your body trying to reject it, they will help I have been on 50mg for 3 weeks now I am 100 as I feel I needed to. But yes again I split my 100 into 12 hours until I get used to them he that helps
Thanks very much, I think I will half my next dose and see how I go with it. I really want to try and persevere with it but these side effects are making me feel even more anxious than before!
Yes I really know how you feel. You will feel worse and think why am I taking this! Let them get in and except them try not to fight it. Say to your self they will make me feel better you just need to get over the 1st. Hurdle
If the shakes get worse and they will ask gp for some diazapan take.at the same time
I did
If the shakes get worse and they will ask gp for some diazapan take.at the same time
I did
I know I can't wait to get over this initial feeling! Will persevere until I feel better .
Get some diazapan
Hi there . The side effects are normal for the first few weeks after starting sert, I was given diazepam to begin with to help calm down the anxiety and it helped me. Do continue you will see the benefits . I also started at. 25 mg for the first two weeks then increased to 50 mg . I take my tablet in the morning.
How are you today ? X
morning all,
i am on 100mg for my 3rd week on saturday just gone, before that i was on 50mg but didn't feel any better after 5 weeks so doc put my dosage up. feeling alot better but still think i've got a couple more weeks before i feel the full benefit from it. i have lost a stone in weight from when i first started taking them, i take mine every morning first thing, i've heard people saying that they can't sleep at all if they take at night, but my experience from taking in the morning seems to set me up for the rest of the day. having a good day today, but last week, i was great but thursday/friday i felt a bit off, no where near as bad as i was and there were no tears, for the first time in months, just felt a bit flat, which i can cope with if that's as bad as it will get. nothing in particular set it off, it just comes and goes, but stick with your medication, they say after 8 weeks, you should start to feel the full benefit of them so here's to the next 2 weeks for me, hopefully all this anxiety, worry and dipping in mood will be a thing of the past. i hope so and feels really comforting to hear other peoples stories and makes me appreciate that i'm not alone in this hell phase of my life, we are all in it together. i'll keep my fingers crossed for you all and have a good day everyone :-)
Well good on you.I think you have to be assertive when taking them
You have to believe you will get better and don't fight the medication.
Our body will do that any way,as we have all of the side effects.
thanks gawen4321,
i must say i feel that i have got off quite lightly compared to some peoples experience, i had migranes and increased anxiety too for the first 4 weeks but they have since stopped :-) none of my side effects were bad enough for me to be thinking about coming off them or stopping them. i don't think that is a good idea at all for anyone to do.
Yes same here. I have hypnosis to a pay private. And I must admit it's been so helpful as our own imagination
Has created this so it can get up out of it, with the right help
hi again gawen4321,
so you have hypnosis therapy for your depression do you?? and when you start feeling down about things, the hypnosis pulls you out of it does it?? a bit like CBT therapy but better :-) can you explain more to me about this please?? i suffer with severe depression and i get anxiety when i start feeling low worrying over my next depression dip and how long it will last and what effects it will have on me mentally and long term.....i'd be interested to hear more about how it's helped you and exactly what goes on with that, i've never heard of depression hypnosis before.... thanks and have a good day :-)
Well i had a bad stammer 12 years ago i tried hypnosis and it worked i still have a little stammer.
So i tried the same with my anxiety. and it works .He talks to me about how i feel and what i think may trigger things off and he gives me tho tools the idea how to over come it .Then he calms me down and puts suggestions into my sub conshense mind.I go away feeling great and positive relaxed He gives you a tape or c/d
with his voice on and any time you feel uptight you listen to the c/d and you are back in the room. Thats it i
have gone 5 times at £60 a session 1.5 hours long
not a bad price that for 1.5 hrs long sessions is it?? i've looked up on the net after your first message and they do that kind of therapy for depression and negative thinking etc, going to see how i get on with my sertraline tablets first and if i need to and still have negative thoughts, i will have a go at the hypnotherapy.
so annoying that one day i can be fine, have no worries at all and no negative thoughts whatsoever, then the next is a totally different story and i have nothing but all day!! strange on the brain works though isn't it !! :-)
yes we will always have good and bad days .
think of it like the stress is like a black dog ?
when your stress is bad its the dog is in front of you,when you can cope its at the side of you ,when you really feel good its at the back of you. but its always there .
but when its in front of you ,you can say get out of the way and kick its ass and say move .
its only our thoughts which keep the stress fed. i hope that makes sense?
its like holding a pen in your hand. its not a part of your body ? you can let go of it and throw it away when
ever you wish to . a bit like stress and anxiety its not a part of us . so we can let go . we just forgot how to
morning gawen4321,
i couldn't have put that better myself. it's so frustrating and then i get angry with myself for letting it get the better of me in the first place!! i just want a normal life, all in all, i'm a good and happy person but when i feel down, man it's the worst feeling in the world and i have no control over it, i think that's where the anxiety comes from, knowing that i'm not in control of my own thoughts or emotions or how long it will last, very scary feeling, thankfully these days are getting better as time goes by and the sertraline seems to be doing it's job :-)
I am on day 12 of taking sertraline 50 mg . Have felt up until today that tablets were beginning to work but have had a rotten day today, Lots of negative thoughts and feel really down and that I am never going to beat this depression.
However, I am going to persevere with tablets until I see my doctor, next Tuesday. As hope today is a one off. I find that reading other peoples experiences really helps me and it is so good to know that there are people who know exactly how I feel. Depression is such a lonely place.
Best wishes to all of you and keep on communicating how you feel!