Experiences of Sertraline please

[Forthebestagain]

Hello all,
After a horrid breakup from OH of 18 years and just generaly dealing with working fulltime and now having sole responsibility of 2 DC aged 5 and 6, I think I had a bit of a melt down last week. 24 hours of solid crying and panic attacks was a clue.
I have always suffered with anxiety and minor OCD. In my 20's I had terrible panic attacks and set myself lots of " rules " that would make me sound crazy if I listed them all here.
Anyway, after a chat with my GP on monday she has prescribed me some counselling and a dose of anti depressants. Sertraline.
Does anyone have any experience of these ?
I have been tkaing them for 3 days now at about 8pm as advised by my GP. I sleep solidly till about 2am and then I am awake with the weirdest feelings ! I just can not fall back alseep. I then spend the remainder of the day feeling faintly nauseous and a little dizzy.
Is this normal ? Will it go away ?
I still have to work fulltime and look after the DC so I darent compromise that. Im starting to wonder if these are doing more harm then good as Im terrified of making a mistake at work !

Pure hell.

I spun, felt nauseous, panic attacks. I was prescribed 50mg which was just not doable, dropped to half a pill and still felt like hell. Managed less than a fortnight and went to get changed.

Most MNers seem to have been fine with them though and the side effects wore off. (thread "just taken first sertraline" or similar title in Jan has various experiences

Hi, I was fine with them.
All Ad's take a few days to get used to and the side effects you describe are fairly typical and should wear off any day now.
Some people do find thay have to try other Ad's to find one that is right for them but it's early days yet.
Hope you feel better soon.

how's it going?

couldn't sleep on them, remember couldn't even sleep in afternoon when DS had his nap

Hi

I was told by my psychiatrist to absolutely take them in the morning or they would cause dreams and bad sleeping.

He even wrote it on the prescription.

Could you try taking them in the morning or did your gp say it had to be at night time.

Funny how the advice is different. Mine was adamant they shouldn;t be taken at night.

I am fine on them. Started them 3 weeks ago and no side effects at all.

I agree with adelicate take them in the morning. I've been on the twice, both times with PND after each child.

I felt exactly as you do for about a week or so but they really helped me. I was on them about 7-9 months each time.

For me the change in how I was feeling was very subtle to the point I wasn't sure they were working but after about a month suddenly realised I felt much better.

Good luck