Sertraline buddy required!!!

[Vml12345]

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

@Hairydogmummy. I could have written your post! Mine also started as health anxiety but now have the intrusive thoughts which like you are a symptom and cause of anxiety!! I do hope this sertraline works! I wonder how much is learned behaviour because we are so used to feeling this way xx

@Hairydogmummy.. thanks I’ll have a look at that website 👍🏻😀

I can really relate to all of this... the intrusive thoughts are just awful 😢

On the plus side, I think I’m noticing a pattern that I’m feeling pretty good a couple of hours after taking my tablet (so in the evening). I’m not sure if this is just coincidental but I’m definitely feeling less worried for a little spell before I go to bed. I hope it’s the tablets working 🙏🏼

@Vml12345 yes I think learned behaviour too. Something to do with neural pathways or something?! Don't really know the science! So reassuring to know others are going through same though. I hope it works too. Sometimes I'm scared my anxiety will just keep adapting and changing as soon as I conquer one thing, along comes another. It's so insidious. This thread has been amazing tho.
I've been feeling better a few hours after taking @TrySleepingWithABrokenHeart too. I've really tried today to keep busy to try to stay in that frame of mind all day and it has definitely been better than yesterday (which was awful apart from the bit a couple of hours after taking the pill when I felt okay)

I’m on day 8, and definitely feeling a little less overwhelmed today than I have on other days so I’m feeling really pleased about that 👍🏻 I know a lot of us are finding mornings tough just now so sending you all some and hoping that this mornings not quite so tough!

Hi, I used to take them but came off them. I was on 200mg but am starting again on 100mg.

I feel a bit odd,!

It's my day 2 as well

Good luck banghead, did you find they worked well for you last time?

Day 6 The most painful part of the morning seems shortened for about half and hour today. I am feeling 80% normal now in the mid-day. So I would say an improvement. But, man, the morning is tough. Had the most horrible thoughts during that time I won't even want to type it out here. I think my will power is wearing thinner.
B.T.W. Does any one has decreased appetite issue? I do feel hungry but no food appeals to me. I am eating prob less than 1/3 of my normal meal.

Does anyone get chest discomfort with their anxiety! Doesn’t help I have health anxiety so always assume it’s my heart 😕

@Vml12345 I feel pressure on my chest and fast heart rate. Is that what you mean?

I hope you’re okay VML?

jellybean I hope your tough start to the day has improved. I haven’t been lucky enough to lose my appetite 😂 wouldn’t have minded losing a few pounds but never mind. I have read that it’s a common side effect. Jokes aside, I hope it passes soon for you. I’m okay just now. I ended up in tears earlier but like we’ve said, we should expect to be a bit up and down at the moment. I hope everyone is doing okay x

Hi All...I've had some chest symptoms @Vml12345 tightness, ectopic heart beats and racing heart, a feeling that I'm forcing the breath in and out. I also get sharp pains but they're related to my chest muscles I think. I ended up in a and a once but got fixed by an osteopath!! I've not got much appetite @jellybeanpeach but it is improving a bit now. My appetite goes when I'm really anxious anyway so hard to know.
I've not had the best day. Was okay this morning then forgot handbag and had to go back for it which unnerved me and then work stresses and then in came the intrusive thoughts!

I’m ok had a rough night, woke with some chest and back pain and started to panic and then couldn’t sleep. I’m sure it’s either muscular or indigestion as I’ve had it before! My side effects have gone thankfully but still no improvement in mood or anxiety but I believe that comes later so fingers crossed xxxx

Sounds a bit silly @Vml12345 but sometimes when I've had that I've just needed to burp! I know it's yuck. I burp all the time when I'm anxious! I'm sure it will be something like that. I'm good at having perspective on other people's medical issues, it's just my own I struggle with

Thank you @Hairydogmummy. I feel much better this morning...day 12 😀. Anxiety still there but appetite back and jaw clenching lessened! I also have lots of IBS type symptoms and burp a lot with my anxiety but since starting the sertraline that seems to have improved a bit. How’s everyone today ? Xxxx

I've woken up really panicky this morning for some reason. As soon as I woke up my heart was pounding and I was lying there wracking my brains for what was making me anxious. Still feel shaky and jittery now.

VML Im glad your symptoms are subsiding ☺️

hairydog I hope you’re feeling better as today goes on.

I’m not feeling great this morning. Thoughts are just racing and I’m full of dread 😩

I'm not feeling good at all on them, thinking of stopping!

@bangheadhere what day are you on? It does get easier! My side effects have much improved just waiting for them to have an effect on my anxiety and intrusive thoughts. Keep going as sure it will be worth it xx

Is anyone having trouble with sleep. No matter what time I go to sleep at, I’m waking at 5am at the latest. Then exhausted through the day. I ended up going to bed at 9.30 last night to try to get a decent number of hours but I’m still so tired.

Been so busy he last couple of days I haven't been on to check this thread - hope everyone is beginning to feel fewer symptoms and things are going ok for you all.

@IdClimbHimLikeATree and @Vml12345 I've also had the racing heart which for me lasts a few hours - although I'm also hypothyroid and think my levels for that were a bit out so it could be the sertraline or that I guess!

Good to know others have had the same though, I wondered if it was just me!

Is anyone else taking sertraline and levothyroxine at the same time?

I've also had an ongoing headache for a couple of days now - like my head is being squeezed! Has anyone else had similar?!

Hope everyone's day is going well.

@Penguinwaddle123 I had that headache yesterday, definitely felt like my head was being squeezed. Horrible. It went with painkillers eventually.

I have had my thyroid checked as part of blood pressure stuff (that's what has kickstarted this latest spike in anxiety, bloody blood pressure stuff ) and they said it was underactive (is that hypothyroid?) but subclinical, so it wasn't doing great but not enough to treat. I'm wondering if I should go back about that at some point.

Evening all. Had quite a good day today. Some intrusive thoughts but much less and not bothering me as much. Seem to have good day's alternating with bad! I have a heavy feeling in my head a lot. Think it's hormones/anxiety? I have so many things in that category tho!