Anyone upped their sertraline dose?

[MrsBobDylan]

I've been on a 50mg dose of sertraline for 3 years. Always found it subtly dialled down my anxiety and have been happy to stay on it.

For the last 18months I have been extremely anxious about dying. I get regular intrusive thoughts about it and it induces a feeling of terror.

Spoke to my GP today and she has upped my dose to 100mg. I have also self-referred for CBT which was really helpful 3 years ago.

I am now a bit anxious about the higher dose (of course!) and worrying that it might make me ill. I have never had any side effects so I don't know exactly what I am worrying about, but I do remember feeling more anxious when I dose went on it initially.

Anyone else increased their dose? Did you grow a third arm or anything else I should panic about?

I went up to 200mg, no extra head or limbs! I'm on two others meds at high doses and all is fine... Aside from the stubborn depression that's refusing to shift!

Thanks @Superscientist I am very reassured to hear that!

Depression is shit, I hope you start to get some relief soon.

I am really hoping I can start to live my life without thinking about my own death all the time.

It is such an enormous waste of my energy and life. I think I have anxiety because of an abusive childhood. As I get older I am becoming more intolerant of my anxiety, because it feels as though my parents are still making my life harder than it should be.

I would like to be the person I was meant to be and failing that, a person who isn't terrified of dying would do

I went from 50mg to 100mg about 6 months ago and didn’t notice any side effects at all. It’s made my anxiety a lot better, didn’t really notice much difference on the 50mg.