I had these exact side effects, I've been on them about 5 weeks and I felt amazing in the first week, I slept better than ever etc. Literally at week 5 and I'm so low, have to put a face on all day at work, feel like I'm being a burden to my husband. Used to love going to the gym can't even face it. Literally just want to hide away! I've put 5lb on this weekend - husband keeps telling me to call the Dr but I don't know what it will achieve been on Fluoextine before that didn't help at all either! Setraline is just making me low sad and feeling worthless.. but the jaw thing was awful also had pupils like I had been popping pills!I'm currently on Day 3 of taking S. I'm currently experiencing some of the side effects, which I am hoping will wear of as per my doctors advice. I feel dizzy, drowsy, no motivation, headaches, loss of appetite, clenched jaw, keep zoning out and I cannot sleep for the life of me - did anyone else experience the same?
I think I'm going to go back to the doctors to get signed off from work for the week until these start to settle down as i'm sat at my desk on the verge of falling as sleep and I don't want to talk to anyone at all
Thank you for sharing this. I've been on three anti-depressants since I was 21 and I don't think any of them really helped. For some reason I came across something about mood stabilisers and it sounded like much more of what I needed than what I've been taken before, but for some reason I'm too scared to suggest this to my doctor. I've recently moved and only really just joined a GP (for other reasons) I'm really fed up of having to explain things all the time and just feel I won't be believe.Just going to throw my story out there because I wish I’d heard something like this years ago... I’ve struggled with my mental health for most of my life (stemming from a traumatic childhood). It finally got to the stage where I was an adult and was struggling, so I went to the doctor, who prescribed antidepressants. I tried them for a few weeks, felt no different, went back to the doctor and got a prescription for a different antidepressant. This went on for SIX YEARS. I tried a huge list of them, tried them for the recommended few weeks/months, took them consistently, listened to my doctor, did everything I was supposed to do. But I never felt any better. I felt like I was completely broken, because antidepressants are supposed to help with depression but they weren’t helping me. I felt incurable and lost hope
After six years of this I stopped functioning and had a mental breakdown. It was only at this point that I saw a psychiatrist and was put on an atypical antipsychotic which is normally used to treat schizophrenia. No, I’m not schizophrenic, but it worked! It wasn’t a miracle cure by any means, but it helped level my mood out which had a wonderful knock on effect. I still have struggles (medication can’t cure situational shit unfortunately, nor can it erase trauma) but being on this medication has been the best thing I’ve ever done for my mental health
Just wanted to post this in case anyone else was finding that antidepressants weren’t helping despite trying different ones/dosages and feels as incurable as I did. There are other options, talk to your doctor and don’t give up hope
No problemThank you for sharing this. I've been on three anti-depressants since I was 21 and I don't think any of them really helped. For some reason I came across something about mood stabilisers and it sounded like much more of what I needed than what I've been taken before, but for some reason I'm too scared to suggest this to my doctor. I've recently moved and only really just joined a GP (for other reasons) I'm really fed up of having to explain things all the time and just feel I won't be believe.
Do you think it's just a case of asking the doctor, or should you present symptoms first?
Have you considered trying CBD oil for your anxiety? I am going to try it, and have been doing a lot of research. There is a company called Simply CBD and they are based in Wales and very reasonably priced. By law, they cannot give advice, but there is a FB page called Simply CBD Users Support Group and you can post questions and get a superb amount of help from users and moderators. You could go in their for some advice, and then if you want to order some you go back to the company. They have quite a few different types to try. They also donate their profits to animal rescue work.I’ve taken Paroxetine, Sertraline and Citalopram, between the ages of 16 and 18. Paroxetine is, I don’t think, prescribed to adolescents anymore, or maybe not at all, but there was a panorama investigation into it being prescribed to teenagers and that generally being a really bad thing. I took it for three ish months, and it was awful. I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t focus, I was seeing things, increased self harm and so on. I had thought I was struggling with my mental health when I agreed to try them, but I genuinely thought I had lost all control of my mind and emotions. The only way I can describe it is to say I felt I had truly gone mad, but I realise that’s really negative language to use so I do apologise for being unable to think of a better way of wording it. I went back to the doctor week after week begging to come off them. they insisted on the 3 month period when it would usually settle down. When it didn’t, they stopped me ‘cold turkey’, which was another two weeks of feeling even worse. Sertraline and Citalopram were much better for me in comparison, but not without side effects. One of them I went up to the max dose but the only thing both of them did for me was make me feel numb. I remember being tormented by the fact that someone would say something really funny to me, and I’d laugh, but I’d feel nothing. Can’t even describe the feeling, but it eventually wore me down and I stopped taking whichever the final one was that I took. I experienced an inability to orgasm with all three, and I gained weight (but have never been slim and my weight has always fluctuated, this may or may not have been a side effect.
It’s funny how people’s experiences can all be so different. I don’t think I’d ever try an SSRI again, I’m too scared to go through the side effects. I realise that ‘being unable to feel a deep down belly laugh’ sounds a pathetic thing to cling onto, but it’s just where I am. Which is a shame, as my anxiety has probably never been worse than it is currently and I am really keen to bring down the constant feeling of dread and panic a bit, in order to then feel strong enough to deal with why I’m anxious.
my husband, on the other hand, has taken an SSRI for all the time we’ve known each other and then some, and whilst he does have some side effects (night sweats, he is a bit flat emotionally, but I’m not sure how much of it is his loveable grumpy old man personality!) it’s worked really well for him and helped him overcome his very crippling anxiety. He has been slowly reducing the dosage to see how he gets in, but if he had to take them for the rest of his life I don’t think it would bother him.
I can also vouch for the weight gain. I gained 5st in about 10 months it was awful. Still finding it difficult to lose the weight after being off them for 9 monthsHi! I am not a doctor, but in my experience I had significant weight gain. I felt better while taking it though! And I was advised by my doctor to stop taking any SSRI medication before trying for a baby. I hope you start to feel better soon, sending love and hugs.
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