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Originally Posted by LauraBeth
Definitely call your doctor.
It sounds to me, based on my experience with medication, that the 50mg was too too much, too soon. Better to go back to 25mg, take that for a week or two, then go up from there. Because the way it is, it sounds like the Zoloft is harming rather than helping. In my experience, Zoloft is a good medication, but it has to be taken slowly.
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Thanks LauraBeth. I called and made an appointment to go in tomorrow.
My past few days have gotten worse, I think. I think I originally posted this on Sunday sometime when I was in a wave of anxiety/depression/hopelessness. That night, I had trouble sleeping again but did get to sleep eventually and felt okay. However, yesterday (Monday) even though the day was a relatively good day full of positive things (walking dog, brunch with friend, bbq with other friends, getting some work done and even a nap) at night the horror of insomnia came back. I tried taking one of these herbal supplements a naturopath prescribed for the past few days, doesn't seem to be doing much. Anyway, couldn't sleep, tried listening to meditations, sleep hypnosis, nature sounds (ocean), my husband eventually put on movie soundtracks to distract us because we BOTH were awake by some annoying repetitive noise in our neighbor's apt that was vibrating the ceiling. I am so overly sensitive to anything right now so the noise made it worse. I tossed and turned, got up several times, went to the living room, tried sleeping to the tv, more meditations, NOTHING. Finally gave up, and then around 4 was exhausted enough to sleep but that was pointless, I already knew I wouldn't be able to go to work... so I stayed home. I napped some this morning, and got some stuff done. The sad part, on top of not sleeping, is when I can't sleep (and even sometimes during the day) I get very upsetting thoughts that I never had before.. like thinking my husband will divorce me over this, my friends are all tired of me, and then I feel very lonely and blame myself. When my anxiety was at its worst before, I would get obsessive about stuff but never have these sorts of terrible, sad thoughts! I'm not having suicidal thoughts or anything like that, just very sad, hopeless, "this is never going to get better" thoughts. This does not seem like a normal side effect to me. I hope my doctor can help tomorrow and we can come up with a plan.
If anyone has gone through similar experiences on sertraline or zoloft, I am all ears. I started 50mg just over 2 weeks ago. I moved my dose to the morning so it would help with sleep, but doesn't seem to be making a difference.
Thanks for listening.