It seems the side effects of that are very similar to withdrawal symptoms? Like i said i was getting symptoms before i started the Sertraline. In hindsight though it does seem to have gotten worse. Just let me add, when i went to my doctor it was more for my physical symptoms than mental ones. I have always suffered from Insomnia, probably due to my long term drug use, and have learned to cope with it.
Ive been switched from Paroxetine to Zoloft as am looking to try for a baby and this is supposed to be 'safer'. My doctor has changed me over gradually. I took Paroxetine 20mg for 2 weeks plus Sertraline/Zoloft 50mg, then went to Paroxetine 10mg and Sertraline/Zoloft 50mg and 5 days ago I've stopped Paroxetine altogether and am now just on Zoloft 50mg...I've went to the doctors yesterday because I feel terrible terrible - headaches, feeling incredibly depressed and crazy!
I am coming down gradually off my anti-depressants, i was on 100mg of sertraline and im now on 50mg and trying to come off them altogether. So far im coping ok, i thought that coming down would unblock my emotions and allow me to feel my emotions instead of them being numbed, but so far i only feel a bit more emotional and still find it hard to cry. I would love to just have a good crying spell to get all the heavy sadness i feel out!
Neurologists can't help you with withdrawal symptoms from antidepressants. Although they deal with the brain, they don't treat mental illness, they treat nerve pain and brain malfunction, and because nobody knows the cause biologically of anxiety or depression, there's not much they can really do. Also, they don't have any "before" pictures of your brain to compare what it looks like now with.
Can anyone tell me how long the withdrawal lasts. I was on 16mg Per day and slowly cut down to 0.4?
My sertraline tablets recently stopped working so well and the GP switched me straight on to fluoxetine. It was a complete nightmare, withdrawal from sertraline plus the side effects from fluoxetine took me to the most terrifying place. I then stopped all ssris and have not had any for 17 days. The first week was awful but then I started to improve, I seemed to get my energy back and I could go out and do things, this was short lived.
Hey im five months an dealing with depression the doctors say it can get worse once i have the baby. i was prescribed Sertraline but i dont know how it will affect the baby....
I have been on 200mg of sertraline for a long time and after trying other drugs I know this is the best for me. I have recently founf out im pregnant so asked my doctor for advice. I was told the risks are minimal and recommended I stay on it. Is it true the only risk is the baby might be born with a sertraline addiction?
m currently going through Zoloft withdrawals and have many of the typical Zoloft withdrawal symptoms. I was just wondering if taking a Vicodin will interfere with the recovery of my Zoloft withdrawal? Could I have done any permanent brain damage from taking a Vicodin since my brain is in recovery mode? This is the first Vicodin I have taken since I stopped taking the Zoloft.
I might be pregnant and my psychiatrist told me not to worry about the embryo. He told me that even while I'm taking 15 mg of Aripiprazole and 50 mg of Sertraline daily, there is no danger. I'm really worried. if I'm pregnant,would these doses harm my embryo being taken daily?
So I have a question related to the mix of antidepressants=
For the last 18 months the doc added 50 mg's of topiramate and Abilify to a very old mix of sertraline 200mg and 2 mg of Lorazepham daily..
I had stopped functioning well and quit taking the new additional two scripts two weeks ago now it's like I have bugs in the LEFT side of my face and it's making me worried and sore-Is there a bad mix of the four together? How long until this tingling wears off?
I have always heard that Paxil was a drug that no one should be on so I talked to my doctor about switching. He decided that Sertraline may work for me. He had me stop Paxil for two days and then begin taking Setraline 25 mg for two days and then upping it to 50 mg. I began feeling terrible. Increased heart rate, drowsiness, pressure in the front of my head, occasional dizziness and seeing visual flashes of light (just a quick flicker) at certain times of the day.
i was on 150mg sertraline and 80mg propanolol slow release have stopped taking both two weeks ago how long does it take for side effects of this take to stop
So I'm on 50mg sertraline day 4 and on my last night of taking 15mg mirtazapine tonight after being on it a week and one day and feel it wasn't doing anything for me only getting me to sleep at night and feel rubbish the next day it wasn't lifting my mood just hope that these new sertraline will do the job, my main question is why am I twitching all the time?? Is it the mirtazipine or sertraline?
Does the lack of Adderall somehow affect the chemical balance, or does it make the affects of Sertraline less effective? I read that Sertraline amplifies the effects of Adderall, but I'm wondering if the negative inverse is true - does lack of Adderall impede Sertraline in any way?
2. I've been on Zoloft 15mg for about 3-4 months or so. Does Zoloft lose its effectiveness in that time period, or rather, could it?
hi hope you can help me i am currently on 100mg of sertraline ,but feel it isnt helping me anymore my gp says i have to take 50mg every day for 2 weeks ,then 50mg evry other day for 2 weeks then i can start on prozac is this ok as i feel that i will be more anxiuos waiting 4 weeks,for new meds ,my gp isnt very sympathetic and just says thats how it is!!!
In addition, she claimed that it could be a sign for a deeper matter, which explained why she diagnosed I was going through recurrent depression and gave me SERTRALINE (ZOLOFT), plus GABAPENTINE. She promised that I would sleep just fine. Guess what? I could not sleep more than 40 hours straight with only 2 days on sertraline. The good side was the racing thoughts stopped completely (but I was wondering whether it was sertraline work or because flunarizine's side effect was off).
ive bn taking sertraline for around 10 years, very appropriate medication for my symptoms it seems but recently ive started having heart palpitations and am slowly sinking into depression again with thoughts of self harm although i dont think i would ever kill myself i do make little cut where it cant be seen. Any advice? brain fog is also coming back.
I am trying to ween off of this drug, I tried quiting in March and had terrible withdrawal symptoms, so when I went back on I started back at half the dosage, 50mg. In April I started taking 25mg/day for 4 weeks, then 12.5mg/day for 4 weeks, then half of that for 4 weeks and now I haven't taken any for 2 weeks. After about 3 days I started feeling sick on my stomach, and it felt like my kidneys hurt, blurred vision, not being able to sleep good, aching at times like I have the flu.
s called sertraline ask about it at your next appointment it is very helpful.
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