Sertraline buddies - support for anybody taking Sertraline

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I eventually went to docs yesterday, been really suffering with depression. Is it possible the medication can result in side effects straight away? I'm feeling sick and no appetite today, however feeling better, clearer... I'm on 50 mg the lowest dose.. Anyone else share their experience please?

Via my weight issues, disabled child, caring role, no money, horrible family, no support, cutting contact with family, being abandoned by ex partners, friends dumping me, just years of hurt, i ran out of strentgh.

I really do not think most women could just exist with nobody and nothing as i do.

There seems no way out,

I guess through social ancxiety/worry i have narrowed my life right down, so depend on little uncertain things to go right whren they never do

I need to get something rock solid, focus on that and other stuff should fall into place.

Online chatters frequently just bugger off.

SoleSource I hope you are feeling better this morning. It sounds like you could use some support? Samaritans have helped me in the past.08457 909090
Or perhaps go back to your GP? Please don't give up.......

Hope you're feeling a little brighter this morning Sole, they don't work straight away. You're gonna have a few shite days before the drugs kick in. If you can say to yourself 'today I feel like shite because my brain chemistry is out of whack but tomorrow its going to be a little less out of whack and the day after even less so.'

Virtually holding yoour hand Sole xx

Sorry, had to go to bed last night, missed the messages. Hope you feel a bit better this morning and I hope the sertraline has an effect soon.

sole so sorry you're feeling so crappy. How are you today? Hang in there, it is so, so early days with the meds, you have taken a big positive step by starting on the road to recovery, try and focus on that .

We're all thinking of you - you're not alone.

And honestly, I wouldn't waste your precious energy worrying about soMe fuckwit man on a chat site - I have friends who have been told all sorts of bull on those, it just seems to be the form with that kind of thing and you have to be pretty thick skinned to not let it get to you - I would steer well clear TBH...

Thanks x

I feel the medication is working and as I haven't been out today or talked to anybody,nobody has upset me soi feel better for that. When ever I do feel anxious about some thought in my head i immediately relax,must be the setraline...

I do feel better today.
I am overweight, my house needs decorating, I need to get some kind of work paid or unpaid.

I need to feel stronger, I hope it comes..

I think i am better off alone untill I sort my head and emotions out.

day 4

Just think up to eight weeks time, we could feel so much better,human and normalish again, our old selves or even better.

Appetite very much reduced. I had to force mysell to eat chicken, cottage cheese and a cup of tea.

Does anybody else feel a bit spaced out? I love it I manage to get my Son up, washed,fed,changed etc then i sit and feel chilled for a while and realise I had forgotten about me for a bit

I wish i had taken these tabs years ago.

I am very large,do you think the setraline is diluted within my body more than it would for a lighter woman?

Just read my posts of last night back,boy i do feel bad sometimes don't I?Who is she? She needs to fuck off.

Sole, I wish sertraline stopped me eating. I'm too good at comfort eating!

Yes, I hope we do all feel much better in 8 weeks.

I'm glad you're feeling more positive today

That's the spirit

Glad you're feeling a bit brighter. I definitely feel very chilled today, really relaxed and no racing thoughts - not like me at all; for months ive been a big jangling bag of nerves. I could quite easily have a little doze right now, and the fact that I have 3 dc wittering on and arguing amongst themselves isn't stressing me out at all.

Today is definitely my best day so far - just hope if carries on that way. I will have been taking them five weeks next Tuesday, so I'm only a few weeks on from where you are.

Re weight diluting the meds, I'm no expert but I wouldn't have thought it would make much difference - surely everyone's liver processes chemicals the same way, the same for our brains, whatever we weigh? Could be completely wrong though...

Hi kazza - I was doing lots of googling yesterday and in reviews of Sertraline quite a few people said they were up and down when they started, then by about week four they felt like they were more anxious or depressed again. But then into weeks five or six they felt it lifting again and from then on their moods really levelled out.

I definitely felt worse last week; really stressed and on edge, but over the last day or two I really am feeling better, so I'm hoping I'm following that pattern too....

Interesting Chuffchuff. I had quite a bad time end of the week, feel a bit better today and yesterday, maybe things are on the up.

I've managed at work ok, although I still get quite paranoid about what people are thinking about me

Are each of your issues (for want of a better word) caused by emotional neglect/abuse when you were a child? Mine definatly is.

Thanks Chuff :)

We have a long way to go, i need this place to post my true thoughts and feelings.

Feeling stronger for this place and people posting on it x

sole, no I had a fairly normal, happy childhood. I've always been a worrier though. Then in my late teens I went through a horrible experience at the hands of a particularly twisted nasty bastard - won't go into details... He was prosecuted, I was given counselling & thought I was fine, apart from the odd wobble. But then a while ago I found out he had died. I all of a sudden started having nightmares and flashbacks and that lead onto panic attacks that would go on and off for days . Basically I ended up in a bit of a state.

But hopefully I'm seeing the light at the end of the tunnel now

Sole, I've also always been a worrier.However, most my problems stem I think from my abusive first marriage and our very messy divorce. Recently a long period of unemployment for dh and debt from previous unemployment has caused me a lot of stress and worry.

Sorry to hear of your problems, Sole and Chuffchuff.

I wrote a huge post and lost it grrr

Thanks kazza

i had stress and worry too about son,respite,schoolteachers, nosey social worker, bastard vile neighbours, about past, cutting contact with family and missing them - what for i do not know, my weight causes me a lot of angst, abuse towards myself internally, from others and embarrassment in public.

Last ex stole my car, frightened me, lied about me, got me involved in things, used me, laughed at me, didn't take me seriously, sad i was ugly, too fat, the cunt.

That man took me down to the lowest level i ever felt and i haven't recovered since 2008. I do not feel safe in this house as he was here too, not seen him fr few years but need to move out, fresh start, very difficult as housing association.

\The stress and worry I have had has ruined my life,

cunts cunts cunts die cunts from past

Sole I know wha you mean, but careful what you wish for - I always imagined if my abuser died id be throwing a party, but in reality it seems to have brought up a whole heap of crap for me

I am so angry with myself for letting that bastard win again, if that makes any sense. I thought I had move on years ago, but I suppose your mind can do funny things.

But I am sure I'm starting to feel better, so onwards and upwards...

And thanks too Kazza

Social anxiety forme caued by a string of one shit event after another. Disappointments, loneliness.

I am sitting here in my house all of this weekend and my nature now tries to feel anxious but something is blocking it, i feel that this can only get better, i hope and pray.

I deserve this to go.

My pupils are like pinheads can people tell I'm on meds from that?

so pleased you too are starting to feel better

onwards and upwards

sole you've reminded me, my pupils were really dilated for the first few days on the meds. I did look a bit wierd, but that stopped after about three or four days - very strange though!

Can I ask, what does your anxiety feel like? I seem to get a tingerly tightness in my muscles. all down the inside of my legs. A feeling in me of dread and fear but I have no idea from want. This is a constant almost 24/7.

I just wanna scream for help. It's gets me very emotional sometimes, like a release.