Sertraline buddy required!!!

[Vml12345]

I’m in day 2 of taking sertraline and could really do with some support as feel horrible 😕

Day 5 @TrySleepingWithABrokenHeart I feel sad now though. And anxious again. I'm up and down. I guess maybe it takes a while to stabilise in the blood stream. How are you feeling now?

I think it does because I’ve felt up and down today. Better now I’ve taken my tablet. Took it at 11 and just starting to feel calmer! Side effects seem better though so finger crossed things are improving! Xx

That's good news @Vml12345 I really hoping the way I felt earlier (for a short time) will gradually take over. How did your wine go down? I was fine on the one glass (I think)

hairydog I’m feeling pretty good at the moment. Side effects tapered off a little earlier today, around lunchtime so that’s good. I’ve been feeling okay for around the last half hour but like you and VML, I’m very much up and down. Mostly down but a couple of short bursts of up in between. Tomorrow is day 7... so pleased to have made it to the end of the first week!

Day 5. Not much change on the side effect. Took med around 6pm and woke up 4am in the morning with sore muscle and tingling feeling all around and feeling really sad. Lasted till 7am (so one hour less than yesterday). Feeling exhausted as last couple of days. Morning is def my low point.

I feel quite low today.. I’m the same, mornings seem the worst. Didn’t sleep well last night so that may have something to do with it! However, today’s a new day and day 10 so fingers crossed x

Day 37 here and I've woken up feeling good

Hugs jellybean and VML I hope you both feel better as the day goes on.

NK1 that’s great that you’re feeling well, gives us all hope ☺️

I’m feeling a bit numb today. Not really sure how I feel. Woke a few times in the night feeling hot and shaking.

I'm sitting here with a pink burnt feeling face?! Not totally new for me tho had it before with anxiety/peri menopause whatever else...@TrySleepingWithABrokenHeart I hate that when you wake in the night hot and shaky. I've had it and it's really scary. Do you feel completely irrational in the night? I do. Lots of strange scary thoughts. Sorry you're feeling down again @Vml12345 I'm not feeling great to be honest. Hope the day picks up for us. I had a big crying breakdown last night. Had to get comforted by DH so I could sleep...

hairydog Yes, I do feel irrational in the night but in all honesty, I’m irrational most of the time at the moment. I’m glad your DH was there to help last night to support you. I hope everyone’s days improve

Yes me too! So sick of the irrational thoughts followed by reassuring self then falling back into irrational thoughts. Hugs. We'll all get through this!

How’s everyone’s day going? I took myself for a swim earlier which cleared my head a little, only temporarily. Today hasn’t been my best day but at least I’m a week in.

Feeling a bit better now but today has been hard day as felt very down and anxious. The side effects seem to have got better which is great. Hopefully the effects of the sertraline e will kick in soon xxxx

VML you must be on day 10 now? I would think you’ll start seeing some benefits really soon. Most of the information I have read says that you should expect some benefits to begin in the first 1-2 weeks so fingers crossed it’ll be anytime now for you ☺️

Yes I think so too @Vml12345 you were better yesterday. I reckon peaks and troughs is what we'll all see. Good that you've been for a swim @TrySleepingWithABrokenHeart I keep saying I should do that. I did go for a walk tho which helped. Feel less anxious than I did this morning at the moment.

I think staying active is so important for all of us struggling with our mental health. I don’t do it as regularly as I should. Sometimes (well, a lot of the time) my head gets in the way. I always feel a little better for it though. I’m glad your walk helped hairydog ☺️

I've been catching up with some sleep and taking it easy mainly today. As usual, the afternoon is better. Prep dinner for today and tomorrow. I found it difficult to exercise as always so tired. Glad to see some of you are doing it though.

I'm on day 5 now. The anxiety is very definitely there but it's being fought kind of automatically if that makes any sense. So I'm fighting it in my head but it doesn't feel natural, more that it has to be fought. It sounds stupid when I say it. I had a lot to drink last night as I was out with friends but so far no adverse effects from that.

I did have a long chat with them about feeling peri menopausal though and one of them is good at this stuff so a lot of what she said (about estrogen and anxiety) was quite reassuring.

I do feel quite flat and almost sad but not quite. Again that sounds daft written down.

We'll get there.

@IdClimbHimLikeATree I know how it felt fighting over your own thoughts and emotion. Made me feel like having split personality.
My anxiety is mainly work related stress from a job I can not quit at least not now. So anything at work tips me over. Like just now, checked work email and got me all irritated again. All symptoms flood over, short of breath, heart drumming, limbs weakening.

@jellybeanpeach Yeah it's a bit annoying but at the same time I can see how I can get control back if my thoughts are going to be like that.
Mine is health related, it's that vicious circle of feeling anxious, that then triggers a physical symptom, I get anxious about it, the symptom gets worse. God I'm sick of it!

I can totally identify with that @IdClimbHimLikeATree mine used to be health anxiety. It was awful...then I started with the intrusive thoughts which have taken over as both a symptom and cause of my anxiety. I've had some moments when I feel like the Sertraline is working in the sense that my thoughts aren't tending to go down the anxious route but another part of me is so used to the anxious thoughts that it feels like it's fighting against the drug.

@jellybeanpeach you're doing amazing to stick at it. I ended up resigning from two jobs because they were making me anxious (was definitely those environments, not just me being anxious). Can you apply for a different job and move on? I just had to go off sick and then quit which has damaged my career and means I'm lucky to have the job I've got which makes me anxious about work!!

@Hairydogmummy Yeah intrusive thoughts have been bad for me, especially when my children were very little. Horrible examples which I've typed out and deleted because they're so distressing. I wonder where on earth these awful ideas come from.

I get the intrusive obsessive thoughts, that coupled with the anxiety is hell! Hoping these tablets will help as I got to the point where I was checking on my family and kids all the time just to confirm they were ok and something terrible hadn’t happened to them. Xx

I'm so glad it's not just me! I've had some truly awful thoughts too, really distressing. Like my mind torturing me with the worst imaginable scenarios. I found this website helpful
www.itsjustafeeling.co.uk/obsessive_thoughts