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Has anyone on here been prescribed sertaline?
I’ve been on sertaline for a few months now and recently when my doctor bumped me up to 100mg I started to feel disassociated. Has anyone else expiernced this? She told me to go up to 150mg but I declined and decided to go down to 75mg instead of going up on this medication.
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Sertraline is the generic for Zoloft.
Yes it is
My psych recommended beginning at 12.5 mg, since the 25 mg tablet is scored it makes it very easy. I'm so scared of side effects would almost rather try to handle my anxiety and depression myself. Don't thing I could deal with being drowsy or dizzy. I also have a history of having a serotonin syndrome event, in the 1990's taking Paxil. That was a nightmare.....up for 44 days, brain zaps etc. But he seems not concerned about this. What a conundrum!
Good choice going down I has a stroke from being in that medicine, they had me at 150 mg + on other medicine, I was misdiagnose, that medicine is so strong! I hadn’t really realized all the signs before my mini stroke not saying you’re going to have a stroke that’s just what happened to me! I’m 48 now, it happened at age 41 and have a group of good Dr!, it’s hard when you’re on Medicaid!Glad to be off it! Good luck to you
My belief is the few medications one is on is better. Not enthused about any medications that cause side effects of the cognitive processes! I think sometimes that the physicians should try the medication just to appreciate what the patients go through! There is nothing worse than experiencing cognitive side effects from medication!
I was prescribed Sertraline for sleep 50 mg but I have only taken one
& it didn't seem to work so I will look into taking 2, but I agree that
100 mg sounds like it will be tooooo strong.
but I don't want to give up on looking for a remedy.
Sertraline should not be prescribed for sleep. It is a very effective SSRI to help treat depression.
I have taken 100 mg of Sertraline for many years in combination with Wellbutrin and Busbar. I recently dropped my dosage of Sertraline down to 50 mg with no side effects.
Depression is very real for some people and definitely runs in families. SSRI’s were a huge breakthrough and hopefully for the millions of people that suffer from depression a new family of drugs will be developed that treat depression even better.
Good luck to all those who suffer from depression.