Sertraline stories please

[feathermucker]

After coming off Mirtazipine successfully, my GP has started me on Sertraline and said to take 25mg for a week before going up to 50mg

Would be grateful for some success stories and how people have found the side effects.

I didn't take anything for nausea. I just made sure I ate and it wore off x

Started them again. Pharmacist told me to make sure I eat just before taking them as that should really help.

Have anti-nausea tablets just in case.

Please stick with them. I didn't realise how bad I was until I look back now and see how the fog has gone x

Hated it. No appetite, lost loads of weight, nausea. Months later passing out, lucid dreams when I did actually sleep which was every 2 or 3 days for a few hours, couldn't concentrate. Self-harming was really bad.

GP just kept saying stick with them. Thankfully saw a psychiatrist who eased me off them onto something else. I was very close to being sectioned on sertraline hence seeing psych

Tried several others and now happily on Venlafaxine

Definitely try taking at night - my only side effect has been very odd, wild vivid dreams but this is lessened by taking them at night.
Good luck OP.

Hi I’ve been on 50, 100, and 150 at different times.....no nasty side effects.
But I tried to get my dose lower and lower - I thought that a good idea. Then recently having struggled since October with powerfully negative feelings ( taking 50mg) I got assigned a terrific mental health nurse at my GP.
She said it was a fallacy that it was better to get the dosage down, and that 50mg was almost pointless. She put me up to 150 ( which I’d only ever been on after my initial breakdown) and I finally noticed a difference. I’m still troubled though and we are considering 200.
The point of me saying this is just so you know it’s not all bad news !

Oh and she advised to always take in the morning.....

Thank you. I took an anti nausea tablet to cover any sickness that might arise. So far, just a little light headed but none of the nausea feom the other day......though it's still early days.

I've heard mostly positive things about Sertraline, so fingers crossed.