Sertraline

[Anxietysucks1990]

Hello all,

i Believe I’ve been suffering from anxiety and probably GAD for the last 2 years. It started with intrusive thoughts but now has spiralled into worrying and questioning everything.

so I’ve had suicidal thoughts but not that I wanted to act on them. So I contacted my GO to start Sertraline. I started taking it yesterday 25mg for one week, then meant to up to 50mg.Actually felt it was helping yesterday afternoon, but then I had like an intrusive thoughts about what if I killed myself. Gave me severe anxiety. Then this morning as well, was still kinda half asleep and had suicidal thoughts. That’s all I’ve been thinking about today and anxiety is so bad. Is this normal ? I know people say the first 2 weeks are the worst. Do I need to contact my GP ?

really appreciate any feedback

Yeah that can be an initial side effect of antidepressants. Definitely contact your GP

I will see how I feel tomorrow and if still the same, I will contact them. Thank you though

Has it eased throughout the day? The mornings are usually toughest…

It has, I still have the thoughts but manage them better.
the problem is that my anxiety has taken over my life. So before I started the meds, I read about the symptoms. One of them was call doctor if you have suicidal thoughts. So straight away when it happened I panicked. Called my GP who said it was very unlikely to be from the seratline this early on. So I will keep pushing through and hopefully will work until he next few weeks !

I’m on my third week. Two weeks of 25mg. Then a week at 37.5. Just gone up to 50. I feel so much better, not back to normal just yet, but a million miles away from where I was.

How are you today? I jinxed myself. Awful day today. I feel like every side effect had caught up with me after three weeks. I hope this is just a blip.

Well anxiety has been awful, this morning thoughts I had schizophrenia and then this afternoon I was questioning reality. But good myself it was just anxiety and felt okay. Of course, I said to myself no suicidal thoughts today. Since then I’ve had a few. Again I’m just identifying it as anxiety. I’m just telling myself it will get better with time. People do say it takes 6 weeks to really feel the benefits. So I wouldn’t worry too much if you had a day today. Keep strong 💪

Also it might because you’ve upped the dosage, just your body getting used to it.

How you doing today? I’m not good. Agreed with Dr that 50 is too much too soon for me and need to go back to 25 for a bit. I was doing so well. I feel like I’m right back at the beginning with all this.