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General => Medication => Topic started by: Tatty on December 18, 2011, 01:10:10 AM
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Hi everyone. Has anyone been on Sertraline or is taking it now? I started on this about 8 weeks ago - first on 50mg then up to 150mg per day. So far, apart from feeling a bit sick sometimes if I don't have them with food, I haven't had many side effects but I don't feel that much different. I forgot to take a dose one day and took the next days one quite late in the evening. I began feeling even more paranoid than usual and starting thinking people were laughing at me. After I took the next two days meds this faded back to it's normal (for me) level. :-\
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im on it but with all the other meds im on i dont really know what causes the side effects, im averaging 98 tablets a week at the moment. its not necessary to take them with food but i think it does help and try and keep to a strict time schedule with meds if you can. the medication specialist i see told me to take mine about an hour after i wake every morning but try and keep that at the same time each day.
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After being on citralopram 60mg for some time I have been swapped to these now as of a week or so ago. Right now I don't know how I feel but my mind is just really messed up and busy. I can't explain it but I don't like it. I don't know if I'm ok or about to explode. I'm just so confused and can't make my mind up about anything.
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It made me completely hyper, if you're worried how its affecting you please do speak to your doc xx
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I would go and have a word with your gp and explain how you are feeling.
S x
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The last 3 weeks have been a massive mess for me. I'm sure its to do with these newpills ( 20mg sertraline) but at such a low dose compared to my last (60mg citrolaprm) I am sure I must be mistaken. I started taking them on 16th Jan and at first I was feeling just a little jittery and on edge. It then went onto feeling very mixed up, couldn't make my mind up about anything and just sort of confused as to how I felt but I so want to get better I continued feeling it was just getting usaed to them. According to the diary that I keep and my OH fills in when I'm not able to ( translates as can't be arsed) it was the 22nd when things started. I started to feel great and thought the pills were the cure, I felt so relaxed and strong and got up, showered shaved and got dressed, something that's been nigh on impossible for so long. I honestly felt like I had found the miracle cure and that I had woken from a bad dream. I began taking an intrest in everything and I mean everything ahem!!, I started to redecorate the stairs, I cleared the garden, I even started to dig out for our kitchen extention (its a council house). It was then that it apparently started and I went out feeling soooo strong and confident and went to the shops to get a few bits and bobs for the new kitchen extention. £1200 quid on the card on kitchen units and then getting completely smashed for 10 days. Luckily the wife managed to cancel the order and get a refund. This ended Friday after I tried to kick the neighbours door in for yet again playing music at 3am only this time I really wanted to sort things for good if you get my drift. If the police hadn't arrived god knows what would have happened. I have been so angry this past week or so and its prob due to the drinking and smoking (cigs and cannibis for the first time in 7yrs) but I'm scared the pills may have also played a part but I'm more scared to stop taking them cuz now I've hit earth hard.....very hard. I know what I did , I am fully aware but its strange cuz its like I didn't do any of it like I just watched someone else. I'm settled now but feel I'm sinking down again, feel so weak and scared but still managing to function, its like the batteries have power but not much left, slept 1fhrs last night but right now still tired. - am aware its coming up to the 1st anniversary of my sisters death and I'm not sure if I'm feeling down due to that or the pills??? Surely a low dose couldn't mess with me like this could it? I didn't get anything like this from the citrolapram even when it was 60mg, mind you - got nothing from them at all, not a flicker really but this time.....anyone got anyadvice? I see the Doc wednesday, missed my CBT appointment last time and haven't heard from her so dunno what's happening there???? Think I've messed everything up this time but don't know how or why it all suddenly went titsup it just did. I was so sure I was better, I would have bet my life on these miracle pills but now I just dunno what's gone/going on.
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I had to come off them Pete, they did make me feel a lot better at first then made my hyper, almost manic, you should go to your GP and tell him how you are feeling and behaving, its possible a reduced dose would be effective without putting you into hyperdrive xx
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I agree with Zaf and as I said before, you need to tell your dr when you go and tell him/her how you are feeling.
S x
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I have an appointment on Wednesday morning with him so I can discuss things then. Its shook me a fair bit as I have never really felt like this before, the closest I can compare it too was back in the day of the rave scene and the amphetemine abuse which although was not heavy just recreational but was similar, at 20mg surely that IS a small dose. Today I had only 3hrs sleep and feel a bit **** but although I'm feelin down "again" at least I'm used to this, I feel safe at least and don't fancy going out and facing people that may have seen me last week. Swings and roundabouts , ups and downs and all those sayings I spose.
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Hopefully your gp will change your medication, there are many different ones, everyone is different and reacts differently to meds.
S x
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Hi Pete...I dont know your history, but I take it your bipolar?
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Hi Stevie, That's the point, I don't know as I was only diagnosed with depression back in August ish.
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Well suddenly trying to take on the world the way you described makes you sound as if you are....unless you experienced something like serotonin syndrome. I'd definatly speak to your doctor about the way you suddenly became very active , started making lots of plans and ended up becoming unruley.
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This is where although I am loathe to self diagnose the fact that my brother has been BP for a long time and there seems to be signs maybe our father was too (70's so no real knowledge then) it made me look it up and my history shows signs of it possibly being there in childhood. I don't know much really and maybe I'm wrong but ??????
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Just from what you said earlier, about waking up and suddenly having an expansive frame of mind....its well worth speaking to your doctor about. Family history, your own history of depression and then what appears to me a hypomanic-manic episode...this ought to be taken seriously by your GP.
And who knows...if you are...well this could be the start of you getting the right medication and thus more happiness
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That's all I want mate, even drinking a lot I felt able to cope and led a "normal" life, got up,worked,did hobbies etc I just drank a fair bit through the week but now I just exist, sometimes I feel that I'd be better off just drinking again and getting on with things instead of feeling like this.
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Im pretty sure that you wouldnt be better of drinking...you'd be self medicating.
When do you next see the doctor? Be sure to tell them of you expansive behaviour...it could be signature hypomania/mania, and a bit of medication might just sort you out.
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Well whatever it is I need to be sorted, I want my life back whatever it takes.
Are you bipolar btw as you seem to know something about it?
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Cyclothymic, apparently. I dont get fun ups. just periods of restlessness, irritability, racing thoughts, agitation....and then the depression. I swing in and out of it at random.
What you describe sounds very much like bi-polar...it could be enduced by the medication, but your symptoms need discussing with a doctor. I know where I would put my money.
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Last week was the first time I have gone off so bad usually its just been over the top happy or really busy with the odd crazy idea but this time it was more serious. The downs I prefer I think but last week I would have said the opposite cuz I felt great until the anger set in a few days later. That I don't like at all
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When is your next doctors appointment?
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Tomorrow morning 9am. Its back to the usual stress of it again too. Strangely I feel comfortable about the worry of going if that's makes sense, its as if it belongs together even though I'm stressed about the whole journey as it entails so much effort and planning. Before last week just after my pills were swapped I had to go to see my cbt woman but I flipped when on the way to the car, sudden mass panic and then major fear which resulted in a violent outburst. Didn't go and haven't heard from her at all either, not even to see if I'm ok and why didn't turn up. Other than the day I decided to drive last week and did so like a young idiot I haven't driven for months due to a neck injury. Last week I dunno how I managed it but the pain is now much worse so I obviously over did things in the agility part. Part of me is even saying to myself not to mention anything to the doctor incase they hospitalise me, I really don't ever want that and would really rather just drink again or anything than go that route but I know I have to tell him I'm just so nervous now that I just want to be alone in the dark and not go but I have to I know. I need more pills but then again do I really need them if they mess with me like they did. I feel I've gone back a few months and wish I'd never started this journey and just stayed as I was, I managed ok for my whole life why change now at 40? Why bother? I know I need some help but its just not as easy as I thought and its made everything so raw and open when before it was neatly hidden behind my mask and in a bottle.
Sorry for the ramble oops!!!
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Hi Pete, you certainly not rambling, but you have told how it really is and how you feel and your fears. Believe me the stress of the meeting is awful, lol I try and play my situation down or outwit the physchiatrist in case they think I'm a lost cause. Currently I am on Mertazapine, Sertraline, and Quietapine, and now he wants me to take lithium which he sent me a letter informing me off. Like yourself I wish I had been left to my own devices, as I have no idea where this is going.
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Hi litenup,
Your on a mix of meds aint ya? Lithium? Is that a stabilisor thing for bipolar?
I just wish I knew why I was like this and althogh I don't want a tag knowing what and maybe why would be a base to start from and maybe get correct meds.
As of tomorrow I'm on 100mg sertraline along with tramadol,paracetemol and diazepam so got my own cocktail going too it seems
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Hi mate, things becoming raw could be something that unfortunatly, needs to be done. If you do end up with a diagnosis, well they may give you appropriate medication and everyting may become much easier for you, which is why by looking for help you are doing exactly the right mature thing to do.
Good look, hope all is well.