Sertraline (Zoloft) and alcohol?

[Anony12341]

nhs advice says avoid alcohol. I’m very new to this medication, taking due to anxiety. Is it okay to drink? I have a few events I’m worried about. What has been your experiences?

Alcohol is a depressant.

If you’re new on anti-depressants I would avoid it.

I'm on sertraline and had a drink or two on it and it makes me sick

Sertraline is an anti depressant and alcohol is a depressant. So I would say alcohol would have a negative effect

Taken it for many years on and off. I've used and abused alcohol on it. Just be aware it may affect it working properly.

I'm fine drinking on it.

It made my alcohol tolerance lower somehow. I'd feel really drunk/sick off hardly anything - it was grim.

And drinking a lot definitely stopped them working.

I'm fine having 2 or 3 drinks on it but I'm not a big drinker generally.

I had my only ever blackout on it. I would have no more than 2 drinks on it.

I've not had any issues with alcohol consumption in sertraline but I know some people who have.

If I drank on sertraline, it made me feel really, really unwell and nauseous.

I'm on 8th day of Zoloft and very thankful, so far seems to be the best meds ever. Sleep pattern is normalized, I feel a loss of appetite but eat regularly but smaller portions. But my sweet tooth has woken up. Be careful not to buy much candy. I feel my emotions dulled, at times unable to cry, but the flashbacks are more easy to handle and like the fight or flee response is lower, everything like the sounds still feels way too much to handle, I live like a Buddhist monk , lolz , I wish I could drink a glass of red or sparkling but the idea gives me nausea, to be honest. I've lost 1,1 KGS. I feel tiredness so gym has been off for sometime, that sort of is hard to cope. The need that is never met seems to be lessened, the thing you can't really put words on what you're lacking in life. Like the never ending missing something. Hang in there. At least my situation has improved in a week so much. It took too long to get the meds I wish I could've gotten them sooner, I guess it takes the right persons to meet before the right things occur in Life 🧬🧬🧬