Sertraline

[Mandy950411]

Been on sertraline and up to 200mg and never helped me but not to say it's like that for everyone though been on a few and now citalapram 40mins and still having a lot of panic attacks xx

[Jmerrick22]

Hi there ! Mandy I just started Zoloft how does it work for you ? It's been making me more and more depressed

[Mandy950411 in reply to Jmerrick22]

To be totally honest not brilliant ad have a lot more panic attacks but nothing more gp can do as been on a fee now buy they do take a few weeks to kick in try to persivere with them just because they weren't for me don't mean they won't help you but if still no good in couple of week I would go back to the docs x

[thislittlelight]

My Dr just put me on it a few months ago for anxiety and panic attacks. I felt within the first few weeks that it was making me more anxious, but he wanted me to stick with it and see if that went away. I'm about 2 and a half months in, gone from 50mg to 150mg and while I guess I don't feel like it's making it worse anymore, I still have yet to feel like it's made a positive difference yet. Which I'm kind of bummed about because I really don't want to start over on a new med, but I feel like I should have at least some improvement by now.

[Mandy950411 in reply to thislittlelight]

You should of most definitely have had some relief by now this says to me there not working for you and u need to try another one its a hassle getting weaned off them and then to another but they need to find a one that works best for you x

[thislittlelight in reply to Mandy950411]

I feel I should have been feeling a difference by now as well! I have my next appointment with him in a couple of weeks. I think I'm going to start weening myself off of them now, as he has shown me in the past he doesn't really believe you need to be weened off of anything (seriously, he changed my Xanax prescription from 1mg 3x per day to 0.5mg 1x per day all at once - that was miserable!). He did say if I didn't feel a change by this next appointment, he would switch me over to something else, and that of course means he's just going to tell me to stop the sertraline and start taking whatever he decides on next. Even I know that the body needs to be weened off of drugs like this, but who knows why he does things the way he does.

[Mandy950411 in reply to thislittlelight]

OMG do sent sound like a very good gp at all my doc has always weaned me off I'm so pleased u know yourself you have to do this I would see a different one if u can I would also express what he does to someone higher as he is putting your life at risk not weening you off them hun that's so very wrong let me know how your app goes have u ever heard of talking matters like a counciller over the phone u can have over phone online or even group but with my anxiety I chose the phone calls and really wasn't as bad as I thought it's just nice to have someone listen and not judge you a bit like this group we all understand what each other are going through and no disbeliefor judging ppl need to realise how hard it really is for ppl like us it is not as easy to deal with as what ppl try to say x