Sertraline should I take it?

[lifeistooshort]

I have been diagnosed with PND yesterday. The doctor recommended I get counselling and asked me if I wanted some tablets. I wasn't sure but said I would take the prescription.

I am not sure about taking the tablets. I am qquite insomniac and am worried the tablets are going to make things worse. I am worried aabout feeling detached from things or like a zombie. I am worried that I'll end up taking them for life or of the withdrawall symptoms.

On the other hand I am worried about not taking them. I am fine for say two weeks and then all of the sudden start having some obsessive thoughts and strong anxiety. I am worried about harming he baby...

I don't know what to do.

I would take the tablets. When you get the right combination of meds they really can help you so much. its a bit or trail and error and you may find the first ones you take don't make you feel much better or they have side effects that you can't deal with, in which case you go back to the doctor and try something different.

It took a lot of visit and a stay in hospital for me to finally get on the right kind of meds but now I am doing so much better.

If you take them and they make you feel detached or like a zombie you try different ones. And even feeling like that for a short time has got to be better than feeling so anxious that you are worrying about harming your baby.

God, I was a real mess, had a very public melt down. But the medication has helped me so much. They have given me my life back and the side effects have been minimal.

I would strongly advise that you give them a go. From where I'm standing it looks like you have nothing to lose and a lot to gain.

Sertraline is very good, I took it for a year to get over PND and it changed my life so much.

I found it helped me sleep, I used to take it just as I got into bed.

I think they are prescribed to people with anxiety as well, so they really help with that and it does sound like you are really anxious.

Like memoo I strongly advise giving them a go, I would take it again like a shot if I get PND with this baby.

Thank you both for your reassuring comments. After much indecision I have decided to take the tablets by trying to be rational and wondering if I had a serious physical illness, would I tke medicine (yes I would). Also yesterday night I was so anxious again for no apparent reason I decided to take them. I have been close to the edge so many times in the last year I have decided to take the help for a change and see if it makes a difference.

I am still worried about a million thing such as effect on the baby, on my milk supply, will things get a lot worse before they get better etc...but at least the decision is made and I am not agonizing over it anymore

I really hope they work for you as they did for me, well done for taking the plunge :)

One of the things that I realised was that my thinking had become incredibly clouded, I literally couldn't think straight and everything was such a worry and seemed like a huge hurdle. The tablets just helped me feel so much less overwhelmed, and then I felt like I trusted my own judgement again.

Keep posting if it helps :)

Good for you lifeistooshort :) Good luck with the tablets.

Thanks Ali and embarassed. So far so good. I feel a bit fusy and nauseous and perhaps a bit slow, but apart from that no major side effects yet. Fingers crossed it carries on