Hi there I know there are lots of threads about side effects of ads but my question is different. I want to ask people who have got past the side effects of sertraline how it is for you.
- is it consistent - could you rely on it? Sertraline seems to have very variable effects - some days I'm anxious, sometimes happy, sometimes sleepy, sometimes awake.
- does it last? i titrated up very slowly and each time it gave me a lift which then disappeared and I had to take more.
- is your head clear? I took fluoxetine before I was pregnant and that made my memory much better. Sertraline has made me really forgetful.
- do you feel happy on it? I feel numb rather than happy, which has its pros. But on fluoxetine I felt actually happy.
I know it's all deeply personal - no one size fits all AD. I really want sertraline to work for me cause I'm breast feeding, so any positive stories would be good.
I'm on 50mg and have been titrating up to that for about 4 months, been on 50mg for about 10 days. It does seem better but today is a bit of a rubbish day for no reason - that never happened with fluoxetine, it made me really level.