Sertraline Buddies - Part 2! Support for all on AD's...

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New thread for when the first one gets full - welcome everyone

Nat sorry to hear you are worrying so much about this. I'm sure it will be all fine. I'm guilty of looking everything up on the net too. Whilst it is helpful in some ways it certainly isn't in others. Perhaps because the health anxiety affects you so much would it be best not to look?
Easy for me to say but could you look up things that make you happy, eg looking up stuff for your wedding. Cake and flower styles for example. Perhaps you could look them up with your dp (who sounds lovely and supportive by the way) and choose some stuff together?

Thank you Well and I know I should be doing this instead and concentrating on gettig better. It's just that any test I have just becomes all consuming for me and the wait for the results I just can't bear. Dp is very supportive but he is also stressed and I know he is worried about me and says he feels useless because he can't help x I hope u r feeling ok x

Hello, after a bit of reassurance...

Been on the tablets a week and to be honest, as far as side effects go, I've managed to get off quite lightly (very sleepy but that's no biggy as I've been taking my tablet at night) but I've woken up this morning extremely tired and swimmy-headed. I had quite a productive day yesterday and I'm wondering if I've basically just done too much and knocked myself out a bit? The major issues that led to this were related to overwork so it's possible that I just don't have that much in the proverbial tank.

Hope your scan goes okay today Nat, hopefully it will be able to put your mind at rest. The sertraline might be exacerbating the burping, it can affect your gastrointestinal system (in my case, I had diarrhoea and I still had to go to the toilet 2 or 3 times a day 8 weeks in. That's one thing I don't miss about it).

Badger if they're making you sleepy it might just be down to overwork. It should hopefully settle soon.

I didn't get to sleep till about 3.30 last night and I kept waking up . I've run out of tablets and my doctor isn't in today so can't get another prescription (I suppose I could see someone else but I'd rather see the same doctor). I'll be interested to see how I sleep tonight without it. This has been going on for about 3 weeks now and it's doing my head in, I'm going to have to start taking some sleeping tablets, which is ridiculous when the tablet I'm on is supposed to make me sleep!

Sorry to butt in on this. My GP has talked about putting me on sertraline for anxiety (at moment on beta blockers and doing a CBT course). Don't think the beta blockers are working, and CBT is a six month thing. Am thinking of asking to be put on sertraline but what side effects do people have? Sorry for ignorant/possibly insensitive question

Everyone's different but to start off with ladybird, I had increased anxiety (not what you want to hear but all my anxiety had gone by about 4 or 5 weeks in), nausea, diarrhoea and it made me sleepy. Oh and I had reduced libido as well.

Can anyone help? I had been starting to make progress ( been on sertraline 50mgs for 4 weeks) however yesterday I picked my repeat tablets and they were the generic sertraline instead of lustral which I was taking. I have had a really bad day again today feeling low and anxious. I Google whether it makes a difference and apparently according to boots Web my it can. Has anyone else experienced this and what shall I do? I really don't want to go back to square one with all the side effects and worse symptoms etc. I'm really starting to panic about it.

Boots Web md I meant.

Don't panic, it might just be a coincidence. Keep taking them for a week and see how you go.

OK thanks Pandora will do.

Hi I had my scan and was terrified. Got results this morning. They have found a uterine polyp so just referred me to a gyno and and something called hermangioma on my liver which is a mass of blood vessels. Freaked at first but he said its common and no action needed. So feel a bit calmer, started panicking thinking yes, but what if they got it wrong, but have to try and stop that way of thinking. Still waking up bang on 5am every morning and can't get back to sleep at all and also wake up sweating, is that normal? Pandora, U said to lady bird a side effect of lustral was lack of libido which is certainly true, but did it come back for you? Hope u don't mind me asking x

My libido only came back Nat when I stopped taking it.

But then I was only on sertraline for 2 and a half months, which isn't that long. I suppose it might have come back further down the line.

Thanks Pandora, you're right, going to have to take it steady - which isn't my natural default setting and how I ended up in the doo-doo to start with...hopefully the counselling will help with that one...

I have cbt booked too badger but only had one season and now she is on holiday :(

That's typical Nat, I hope she's not away for long.

I really hope I can get an appointment today as I've missed 2 doses. My own fault for not being organised enough, but I'm starting to feel very panicky and I feel a bit sick as well. I've been trying to get an appointment with my own doctor for a week but haven't been able to. Have been awake since 3 worrying about whether I'll get an appointment and how I'm going to take time off work to go. It's going to be a nightmare as everyone rings at 8 so I probably won't be able to get through.

I did get to see my doctor, got my dosage put up thank god. He said to try that for 2 weeks and then go up to the next dose after that if I feel I need it. I'm feeling better about it all now.

What dosage are u on now pandora? I have been on 50 for 2 weeks on weekend, is it still really early days? Doc said I nees to try and get back to work but mornings are bad for me for some reason. Not sleeping properly, awake from 4.30 without fail and then anxious thiughts snd feelings and don't want to get up. Evenings are not great but not that constant churning in my tummy all the time x

I'm on 30mgs but I'm on mirtazapine, I've gone up from 15. 2 weeks is still really early days, I'd assess again after 4 weeks although if you're really struggling you could go back to your GP. I'm sorry you're not sleeping well, it's rubbish isn't it. Can you take any sleeping tablets?

I do have diazapam pandora but it doesn't matter how late I take it I wake up the same time. Ive even gone to sleep, woken up, say around 2, taken one and still woken up the same time! Do u think the fact I feel slightly better in evenings is a good sign? It's the only time I can eat without feeling like I am going to be sick too. Lost so much weight so of course worrying about that too! x

so I did it..... a week after the gp told me to I upped my dosage
woke up this morning with that feeling again, that I can't go on. now on 60mg of fluoxetine

That's great that you feel better in the evenings Nat. I don't know what to suggest about the sleep. Maybe go back to your GP and they could prescribe you something else.

Well done Closed for upping your dosage, hopefully things will get better for you soon.

Nat I don't think Diazepam is specifically for sleep, more for anxiety I thought. Like Pandora says maybe worth asking for something else for the sleep issue. You probably would only need it for short while to get back on track.

I just feel like I've failed cos I have to take more pills......does that make sense?
It feels like I was getting better now I'm so much worse, really low again and struggling.
I want to be better, I just don't know if or when it will happen

Had a really bad day with anxiety about the hermangioma they found on my liver, my fault for asking for tests! They say it is small and harmless and nothing to worry about but of course I google and am now in such a state they have got it wrong and it could be something so much worse. I know I need to out trust in doctors but I find it so hard x