I've been taking sertraline for 2 weeks now - starting taking it for insomnia and anxiety but am also feeling much happier now so I guess I was a bit depressed too. Anyway, I have gone from not being able to sleep to being really really tired - I just feel like I'm dragging my feet around and keep nodding off when I'm playing with the children. I asked the GP and he said it might pass or might not - very helpful. Does anyone else have experience of this?
Also other slightly weird side-effects are that I seem to have developed normal body temperature - i have always been a very hot person - wear sandals in the snow and go out without a coat in December. Since being on the sertraline I have been feeling cold when it's cold! it's so so strange - I've even started wearing pyjamas to bed after not wearing anything for years. (not wearing anything in bed that is rather than not wearing clothes all day every day).
I also find myself kind of clenching my jaw which is very strange.
Over all though I feel that the positive effects are worth it so I guess I'll have to get used to a life of pyjama wearing and jaw clenching!