Sertraline and any other AD's Support Thread Part 2

[PackItInNow]

Just a continuation from the original thread, which is due to finish soon. Anyone and everyone needing some kind words, and hand-holding, are more than welcome .

If you don't think your ad's are working then now would be a good time to up your dose. You have some time off work to get over the sleepiness stage.
I've heard that going to bed and getting up at the same time each day helps. Can't do it myself though. If I get the chance of a lie in then I take it!

I've settled on 150mg of sertraline. My last dose increase was a few months ago while back at work after maternity and the first few weeks were awful with the tiredness.

Ask your gp to increase your dose and if it's still not working for you there's always the option of trying a different type of medication. One which makes you less sleepy?

Hi all. Back home, struggling a bit. Hope you had a lovely Christmas, will catch up on thread tomorrow. Much love.

Hi everyone, how are you all?
I am supposed to be in bed but I have a meeting with my boss tomorrow and I am too anxious to go to bed. I know I need to or I will feel like crap tomorrow.

I'm really still sat on my arse in the conservatory, waiting for it too stop raining so I can go out for a fag before bed

Morning good ladies, I just had some toast then a few thorntons choccies for breakfast. I love the festive season because I can eat whatever I want without feeling like I have to answer to someone for it IYSWIM. Also listening to Seasick Steve. Brilliant singer/songwriter.

Hi Vicar, sometimes a wee trip out to the supermarket can do some good. I understand that you don't particularly want to, but sometimes it can make you feel better just knowing that you braved the crowds and got home safe with your groceries.

Stars, I hope you get your repeat script without having to see the GP.

Anyway, hope you all have a good day today. I'm off on my travels around town, but will be back later. I've found that I used to have to gee myself up to go out, but I've come to the point where I have done it so many times, that I just choose to go out and get on with it. It has become 2nd nature to me because I've done it so many times without thinking about it IYSWIM.

vicar good luck for you GP appointment, how long have you been on the sertraline?

shakey good luck with your meeting

packitin your daughter sounds fabulous :)

I am at my ILs, feeling like things are building up, feel very stressed but not, I am all snappy and horrid. Ugh. Take away is here so must dash. Hope everyone is ok.

I'm a week into these sertraline tablets now and apart from feeling sick nothing is happening, I hope they kick I'm soon.
I've been sat here stressing myself out tonight and know I need to relax but it's hard, so thought I'd write it down here.
I have two ds's, one is ASD the other is currently going through observation for possible ASD. I'm a SAHM, I've just finished a BSc and feel immense pressure to use it now. I will do but I'm not ready yet, I need to get ds2 sorted first, he's only 3 and I can't do a PGCE until he's in school, I need to be able to focus on it. We love 400 miles from all our family, it's just me, dh and the boys, has been for nearly 7 years now. I have been looking for a part time job in a school but they are so hard to come by, may well volunteer, but I need to get my depression sorted first.
I know what I new to do, I need to give it time, let these tablets start to work, start the sessions with the mental healt nurse that are planned for the new year. Then think about work.
I also want to lose weight, so thinking about joining WW. Thinking about all of this in one go and hence stressing myself out.

Thanks for 'listening'

i am coming up to a month on monday on 50mg sertraline and really dont think i feel any real difference....

im hoping that im not a lost cause.

I'm new to all this vicar, but can you have a higher dose? I knows mental health nurse said she'll start me on 50mg, and see how that goes.

Hello. Hope you are all surviving. Have been OK until today.Was supposed to go to a party this evening, but sent dh on his own.Couldn't face people- small talk, despite the fact it is anannual party and always a lovely one....feel really low today. Have family coming tomorrow which could be very difficult. Will lose myself in the kitchen I think. Christmas day, however was lovely......
Have to decide about upping the tablets....I think I should but a bit nervous of having side effects again......

i had a missed call from occupational health today who want to book me in....im reluctant now tbh.

i ignored the call but i need to deal with it. i will call them back next week when i feel like i have the strength to deal with it. i dont right now. i dont want to be reminded of work right now.

i want to be signed off until ive had my endoscopy at the end of Jan....im feeling very anxious about it and getting things out of proportion a bit. I have no idea if i need the sertraline upping or not, and suspect i wont until i get back to work, and im worrying about what to say to gp on monday. im also worried about more side effects as the tiredness is still a problem for me even on 50mg.

this is just shite - no wonder i want to stay in bed. its the best place for me lately.

Vicar I sympathise, I really do but getting out of bedmate getting showered and getting out of the house will make you feel so much better, truly.

The law in my house is that, nobody is allowed downstairs in the morning in their pjs and you must be clean to wear clean clothes.

These rules are the only thing that stops me crawling back into bed straight away. It is not good. I remember the tiredness vividly but found that the more I slept, the more tired I felt. Then would be wide awake at 3 am, not get back to sleep and be knackered the next day. I do not let myself nap anymore, it means I get a better nights sleep and am more refreshed in the day.

My meeting with my boss went well. I was mega anxious last night, couldn't sleep and felt shit today. We have sorted out a plan for return to work on 15th jan.

Vicar 4-5 weeks is usually the turning point for ADs, try to drop the day time nap if you can, to sleep better at night.

Occ health will totally be on your side and if you say working night is a problem and affecting your health then your boss has a duty of care to make sure that alternative arrangements are made to enable you to return to work.

I have just read NHS sickness absence policy cover to cover, I know you don't work for the NHS but your employer still has a duty to look after you x

Good morning Vicar, Turned, Shakey, Boobs and Rumours. Hope you all managed to get through another day relatively unscathed .

Will be back soon as I've a few things to do.

Hello all. Little update from another newbie. Saw lovely GP on Thursday who explained that I had been given too high a starting dose of the citraolpam (can't spell) so no wonder was having horrid side effects, the second AD prescribed (which luckily I never took) was totally unsuitable so he has prescribed 50 sertraline. Day 2 and so far just nausea a a side effect to deal with.

Can I ask some advice, I have this constant conversation going on in my head, chattering away about all the negative, sad, worrying things going in life, mine, my families, the world in general. Does anyone else have that and if so how do they deal with their inner thoughts?

hi all,
been missing a few days have had a very horrid flu/cold :( been in bed for the past few days no strength to even get up! how is every1 doin? waves at pack vicar shakey turned boobs rumours & every1 else.
heart I know exactly what u mean as that is what I have all the time. I'll be having a conversation with someone but in my head I'll be having another conversation talking to myself. all negatives things & usually it ends with the world being better of without me. I've not found a way to deal with it yet ...

on another point do u think it is ok for me to have lemsip max & sertraline? they won't interact will they?

Blooming freezing outside, anyone want a and a to keep warm, or at least to keep our wee mits warm if nowt else?

pack I'll join u with my mug of lemsip for a wee while before my stupid guest arrive. my aunt & her family have decided to drop round for a visit & we get half hour notice! I'm so not in the mood but have had to get myself out of bed, washed & changed plus get DD dressed n changed.... arghhhhh :(

Pain, as far as I know, the citalopram interacts with other SSRI''s and tricyclic AD's, cimetidine, tryptophan, lithium, moclobemide, tramadol, sumatriptan, ketoconazole, itraconazole, macrolide AB's, omeprazole, metoprolol and MAOI's.

It also, in the herbal range, it interacts with St John's Wort and ma huang. That's about it for interactions AFAIK, unless there is something new on the medicine market that reacts with it, but nothing other than the aove that I know of. Best to see your GP and ask if there is anything else that's new that'll react with it.

HTH.

One Lemsip coming up. Will have a mug of tea myself, but loadsa biccies to munch at , so help yourself me dear.

afternoon everyone, just checking in....ill have a if ones going. pain i would just tell your guests your not well....

i had a bath, got dressed and did hair (no make up though - cant be chewed) and took DS out to the local factory outlet to get a suit which he claims to need for uni and then interviews. strangely enough he forgot his wallet....

im now back home ready for hibernation. im going to try and get an earlier night and set an alarm to get up in the morning. im just so exhausted all the time.

thanks pack butI'm on sertraline not citalopram...

pack thanks for the lemsip :)
vicar I wish I could just say bugger off to em but apparently dat wud b rude! in my family ppl just pop round when they wish just dnt care if ur sick! it gets up my nose so much... I always give ppl like a week advance notice before descending upon them!

Urgh, that's how I feel!
I was having a good day then popped to my neighbours and she was going on about how happy she is, she has a new job and friends at last, (thanks, thought I was one ), and then how she now has a life etc. I came away feeling rock bottom again, I struggle socially and this just highlights it.
Cat wait for dh to get home from work and the the ds's to bed then I can shut off.

Sorry bout that Pain. For some reason I saw sertraline and though citalopram . Maybe I should be reading one word at a time LOL....

Rumours, I'm not sure she meant that you weren't a friend, just that she made new/more friends through work, so I guess it just came out in the wrong way . TBH, you shouldn't take it personally.

I normally get through each day by thinking that I can and will deal with whatever life throws at me. TBH, I don't see that I have any other choice about it, so I just get on with it. It's a bit like washing the dishes. I hate doing them, but they have to be done, so I get on with the washing up and breathe a sigh of relief when they're done.

Am soooo tired after taking my AD, so will head away off upstairs to get ones gob washed and go to bed. If I take the AD any later than 7pm, then I find that I feel very groggy the next morning, but if I take it with my tea, then I get up the next day refreshed and ready to take on a new day BRING IT ON!!!!!!

I'll wake up tomorrow ready and waiting to deal with whatever shite life has to throw at me.