Sertraline help..

1. jlc 18 July 2012 at 08:58AM
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   I have just been prescribed sertraline 50mg after being on loepramine for a year, I came of that because of the heart rate side effects. I took my first sertraline after evening meal last night and hardly slept, I had stomach ache all night and felt so sick, nauseous and faint this morning that I had to lie on the bathroom floor for a bit. I am now back in my pyjamas and trying to rest.

   I really don't like taking medication but I feel that I need something and the Doc says that sertraline is a good one for anxiety as well. He said to start on 50mg but I am wondering if it might be advisable to drop it to 25mg for few days or just try to ride it out and hope things get better.

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2. pindi 19 July 2012 at 19:14PM

   hi havent seen a blog from you in a while i thought all must be well with you seems you going through a bad spell just like me im not ding to well my self fel i going mad im on propanol at the mo not sure of spelling i try to grt through day by day but feel so detatched from every thing is this really anxiety i keep wondering is there some thing wrong mentaly my artner is fantastic and keeps telling me it is the anxiet and its a condition im not convinced wh have you changed your tablets what are you felling to have to change keep blogging and keep your chin up x

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3. jlc 21 July 2012 at 09:34AM

   Hi pindi

   I came off the other tablets as the side effects were out weighing what the tablets were doing for me. I had constant rapid heart rate and Doc said he is glad that has now gone away after stopping them.

   I didn't end up staying on the sertraline and I am now a week into Prozac, I am feeling very anxious in a morning and want to be sick and I keep dry retching but it is easing a little.I have very little apetite and feel nasueous most of day.

   I see the Doc a week on Tuesday so I am hoping that the side effects will have started easing off.

   The prozac is not helping my sex life though ( being very honest here) The lofepramine didn't bother that at all and although getting better is my main priority when tablets take away what good things you have going then this adds to the fustration on being on tablets in the first place!

   Detachment is def a sign of anxiety, I used to have that all the time when I went out. I would be walking round in some type of surreal world. I don't have that quite as much now although my anxiety seems to have turned into this depression and I can't see the fun in anything.

   Is it just propranolol that you are on ?

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4. pindi 27 July 2012 at 08:12AM

   hi jlc

   im just back from southport my partners mum has been in hospital it was a long drive and i found it streesful some of the time, ive stopped taking the propranolol its been 4 days now i just felt my body was just in a slow motion and i couldnt think straight (dont really know if it was the tablets or the anxiety) i used to take prozac i was on the for three years i got on well with them so give them time you right they do affect your sex life. im still getting the detachment which i do find it hard to cope with also feel my legs dont belong to me sometimes fell im going to fall over im starting talking therapy next wednesday been waiting a while to start as ive been off work over a month now but cant see me going back for at least another month didnt realise that anxiety could be so debilitating i when i fell bad i still get thoughts of that i must have an illness like a tumor of some brain damage its just so wiered any way give the prozac time to kick in (i was on 20mg) what are you taking! good luck you be fine

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