Sertraline and any other AD's Support Thread Part 2

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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 .

Pain Things may look better after the weekend, you'll have had a bit of a rest. Good luck.

thanks Dawn I'm hoping for a better days too. so far staff seem to be very friendly & so do other people on the ward. I've never stayed alone anywhere before so that is making me nervous.

Hi. I hope everyone is ok.

pain I am in hospital at the moment, it is not too bad you get used to it really quickly and the staff are there to help you. It is scary at first though.

I am not brilliant, still on constant obs and on a Section, not much to say!!

hi all,
survived the night (took a sleeping tablet) but woke up to find I've been eaten away by bed bugs! absolutely hate them & wanna leave to go home. But the Dr won't discharge me as he thinks I should spend the weekend In here at least. they will be moving me to another ward which hopefully will put my mind at ease. I feel like screaming out loud.... food is also horrid :( God give me strength to survive the weekend.

waves at fluffy hope ur doing better :)

Oh Pain, well done sweetheart. I'm so proud that you did the right thing . I'm sure it must have taken all your emotional strength to get the help you so clearly needed, but I think you can relax now and take whatever treatment they advise, in order to get better. I really am so proud for you .

Hi Fluffy Tis me, ye olde PackItIn. Got fed up with my NN so changed it to the current one.

How've you been doin me dear? You been getting better?

Hi, my dose has just been increased again from 100 to 150. What can I expect? Can't really remember from last increase as was so out of it at the time in myself.

Hi Thunks, welcome to the thread. Have a wee and a . What AD are you on?

Sertraline (still bfing). My diagnosis was OCD with moderate/severe depression but have had 20 sessions CBT and the depression is more or less gone thank God, still a bit tired/unmotivated/sensitive but able to do most of what I want to do again and beginning to be able to get out of the house without it being a major palaver/something I have to spend days working myself up to.

I have three months left before I am supposed to be back at work though and one before I am supposed to resume my MSc but that is just NOT going to happen right now. I had a major falling out with my CPN which didn't help. I had a lot of anxiety about my son not gaining weight which she thought was anxiety but it wasn't, he was actually plummeting through the charts. A lot of things went wrong - the GP sent me to preoperative assessment with him with a referral which said he couldn't breathe (concern was tongue tie) yet the CPN thought my distrust of the GP was symptomatic and was trying to tell me not to follow through on it.. she told me not to tell my husband about the Paediatric referral.. she also told me I would need to question where my marriage was going as my husband is anxious too and if he didn't get help, where would we end up... then when I finally was told by another GP that my baby was "wasted" suddenly she started saying all this stuff about how I needed "not to disengage" or external services would have to be involved... even though I was the ONLY one chasing it up! If it hadn't been for my CBT therapist I would probably have cracked up.

I asked for a review and it was cancelled and rearranged several times, when it happened she never showed up ("car trouble") and she hasn't called or contacted me since then (early November). The review consisted of the psychiatrist basically trying to get me to tell him what happened and then telling me it was unhelpful to go over old ground and it "wasn't fair on [CPN]", plus this increase in meds.

I had decided not to take them but I've been so worn out from all of this this week I've decided to. I'm just concerned about the higher dose with breastfeeding, not really sure why I am on it and also want to ttc again in the next year and don't know implications of that, none of which was spoken about in the review.

Well Thunks, it certainly sounds like you've been through the mill mentally.

From what I gathered the CPN was saying one thing about your GP then telling you another thing entirely , but please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

You had every right to be concerned about your LO and no matter what the CPN says, you should trust your instincts when it comes to getting treatment for your DC. I hope your LO is OK BTW. As a mother myself, I know how daunting it can be when you know something is wrong, but someone else is telling you everything's OK.

My rule of thumb is that you know your DC best, others know bugger all about your DC as they're not with them 24/7.

I would say that you should stick with your GP, becasue if you have seen them a few times, then they are bound to know more about you and your family than the CPN. Not only that, but the next time you're at your surgery, make it clear that you'll work with the GP's there if they work with you.

The "work with me and I'll work with you" phrase is one I've used at my own surgery, and I can now go to any GP at the surgery and have a good laugh with them all while getting treated. Becasue I've been treated well and like a human being (not a number), I have no problem dropping a box of shortbread down to the surgery for the staff tea breaks. I don't even have to say my name as they all know me down there, so I'm pretty much infamous .

Hello, I have managed to read 10 pages so far fab thread started Packitinnow
I have most things written on the box for this tablet so I am hoping it works? I have PTSD, Agraphobia?social phobia (not diagnosed), night eating (not diagnosed) and depression. It has got worse over the last several months when the 'couldn't go out alone' started in September. Took me over a week to get to GP to get the script (had my son with me) and 2 days to build up the go for it' and started Sertraline yesterday teatime 100mg and sleeping tablet...well actually only took half! I feel totally zooned out today...I think it is the sleeping tablet mind you? But still feel extremely anxious on inside??
I know it takes 4-6 weeks. I am praying the suicidal thoughts don't start (don't have them pre SSRIs)....last time I took SSRI (prozac) for anxiety I had to stop because the 'violent' thoughts of killing myself well was very hard not to resist! So don't know if I will get past the 6 week marker this time either? Time will tell. Feel sorry for people who are actually suicidal to start with before taking them.
So will pop another pill again later and wait another day and so on (ground hog)

Hello Sea, it's PackItIn here. I've name-changed to Chiggers. Welcome to the thread sweetheart . I hope you'll find it helpful, supportive and reassuring in it's own way.

I'll be back later as I am on my 2nd week of being a Badger Leader (St John's Ambulance).

Back later and take care

Ahhh didn't get that far on the thread. Thanks chiggers for being so welcoming, have great day!

Back again after Badgers. Had to get a taxi there and back because it was lashing with rain. Ach well, at least the ducks will be having a field day .

Anyway, how have you been feeling Sea? It's probably scary for you not knowing if this current AD will work or not, then if it doesn't work as well as hoped, you may have to endure more AD changes IYSWIM. I really hope it doesn't come to that though. I hope that this current AD is the one with the fewest side effects and no suicidal thought. The suicidal thoughts are, in themselves, just that, thoughts. Whether you act on them is a different matter entirely, as you know.

One thing to remember is that anxiety will not kill you. If you feel yourself getting breathless from it, try blowing up some balloons. Seriously, it'll regulate your breathing and help you feel more in control IYSWIM.

Wish I could have a day without snivelling and chest pain. (Heart checked, it's panic and stress). I'm really fed up, I'm the person that copes. Grrrrr!

Aww Dawn, sorry to hear you're feeling rubbish, if it makes you feel a wee bit better, I'm loaded up with an excruciatingly sore throat (daren't swallow much as it's so painful), sniffles and my chronic back pain that's playing up.....................,but apart from that, you'll have to kill me to keep me down (not an easy task, I can guarantee that) .

Anyway, didn't want to read your post without replying, but I'm off to bed as I'm shattered.

Take care and have yourself a nice cup of hot green tea (full of antioxidants).
Hopefully you'll be feeling better very soon .

Evening Chiggers oh the rain and wind is bad...and maybe snow too in the night. I actually like the snow because it gives me a ligit reason I can't go out! So the other week when I couldn't get car out and buses stopped it was no pressure to get out! Trouble is even I felt a slight cabin fever towards the 8th and final day.

I'm up and down...worse in the morning and gets better when the night draws in ? an excuse I can't go out I guess! Suffer with the 3.28am waking too...thats when I fall back to sleep 6am for an hour. I'm like an alarm clock! Last night with the sleeping tab I kept waking every 2 hrs so a shift but wont say better yet, but only first night.

It started with a severe migraine (?stress) which I couldn't leave house for 10 days and when I could leave then I found I couldn't on my own...but never realised until their was an issue with getting ds to sch...I couldn't take ds and ds missed over a week of sch.

I should be going to a meeting on Wednesday and I am praying it will snow...it's in the day and I will have to leave my home alone.

Dawn the chest pains can seem so real...deep breathing so important at this time.

thunks hiya, gosh so CPN telling you possibly Child Protection will be involved if you don't attend appointments then she disappears for now 3 months nearly! Is she blaming you DH for your ds losing weight...his anxiety impacting or something? sorry Reading a new thread without knowing so I do apologise if totally wrong I am sure I am cause huge gaps in my understanding esp as this slowness in my cognitive processing from the anxiety/depression and everything! Well they not that worried if no contact...won't worry about CPN...can you have a friend every time she comes to ensure what is said is correct? Just say friend their for support. I fell asleep with ds about hr ago without 1/2 sleeper and bit my tongue waking me up...that's the anxiety doh! Going to pop that sleeper now.

Hi I've not posted for a while, but have been lurking. I want to ask about side effects and this will probably be TMI, sorry.
When I was in 50mg of sertraline I was fine, just a bit nauseous and dizzy. I've been on 100mg for nearly 4 weeks now and for the last week I've had diarrhoea, it was now and then for the first few days, now it's every toilet visit. At first I thought it was a bug but now I think it could be the sertraline.
Has anyone else had this and does it go away. The tablets are working and I don't want to stop them.

Morning all, I decided not to take sleeper last night and slept exactly same as night before with sleeper. Not having any symptoms yet as expected from AD although wish it could work fast. No snow here but need to get out to do shopping. I will hopefully go tomorrow if I can get my mum to come with me, cant face it today.

I really don't think I am depressed, just naturally sad by lots of things in my and Ds life falling apart. The anxiety is what is crippling

Does anyone know if taking sertraline was better in morning or evening?

I am taking it in the evening and feel exhausted today. Maybe waking up often and max 5 hours a night might be the problem?

Hi everyone, reading through your lovely supportive messages is great. I am struggling today on day 4 of 20mg fluoxetine (diag anx/depression), but have really bad nausea, headache, dizziness and head is feeling very strange indeed! On GP's advice have taken mine in the morning. Don't want to give up on these as I do believe I need them, but these side effects are proving v challenging. I'm assuming 20mg is the normal starting dose for fluoxetine? Hey ho. Best wishes to everyone.

Back again:)

My mum phoned and asked did I want to go shopping so we did and went for a cuppa and chelsea bun yum! So back home and feel great but over whelmed all at same time. Weird huh!

Rumours only because I started 2 days ago I remember reading diarrhoea as one of the common side effects. I was put straight on 100mg nothing yet!

Colouring when I tried Prozac 3 yrs ago I ended coming off after 10 days as I ? fainted/blacked out and felt dizzy/migraine with them....hope sertraline doesnt do same?

Thanks seaofyou I am feeling a bit less spaced out now - 4 hours after taking todays.... hope this doesn't get too much worse!

Thanks seaofyou

Back again ladies.

Went to the dentist today for a few fillings. Had a panic attack, heart started racing and I went all shakey and panicky. It was the adrenaline in the local anaesthetic kicked it off. Dentist was worried, but I told her that she could work away through it and I would close my eyes and control my breathing while she worked at my teeth.

I have never felt so out of control, yet so in control at the same time. I knew it was a panic attack because of the symptoms, but having covered panic attacks in St John's Ambulance, I knew how to treat it. It's true what they say, that knowledge is power

Other than that, all went well at the dentist. I'm still alive and kicking, so it can't be that bad .