New here, just a little background on me - I've been on Sertraline for the past 5ish years. I started on a low dose, and noticed that every 4-6 months I'd have to increase just a bit because the anxiety would come back.
I've always been reluctant about putting any sort of medication in my body for fear of it giving an adverse reaction/making me feel worse and GI upset (one of my weird OCD thoughts! ugh!).
I'm finally with doctors I trust and that's a relief, but I've been in a tough spot with a lot of stress going on lately, and my panic attacks and OCD thoughts are back a little bit. I've been given 25mg sertraline to add to the 150, to make 175 ... so my main question is
Will this small increase give me any stomach upset or side effects? (I've been lucky in the past and I don't recall the initial start of the zoloft or any of the increases giving me any side effects)
Thanks!
Will increasing my Zoloft from 150 to 175 give me any side effects?
Question posted by alexismarie103 on 20 Nov 2017
Last updated on 29 April 2018 by Redsummergal
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It’s been a week since I increased Zoloft 50 to 75 and I feel the instructive thoughts come back, I feel foggy like I am in a dream and depersonalization thoughts all the time, it lasts for about 4 hrs while I am at work ( that’s where my panic attack started ) I am hoping it goes away... it’s so hard to deal with this. Hope ur feeling better
I agree, I would not worry about it. I increased from 100 to 200 last year an only had minor and I do mean minor side effects. Maybe my heart would race for a spilt sec if I got up too fast or ran around, but even that only lasted a day or two.
Hey Joey - I was just wondering whether when you increased from 100 to 200 did that solve your issues? I've had a partial response to 100 mg of Sertraline, but have only been on for about 5 weeks. Wondering if upping my dose by even 25 or 50mg would help.
Thank You!
alexis; Really nothing to worry about you know what you have had in the past and when the medication is already in your system and a small dose is added most people don't have near the side effects or as long as they did when they first started it.
It’s a relative small dose increase so I imagine it’ll be minor but you can experience stomach side effects and worsening symptoms in the first week or so. If this doesn’t work in the long run, I recommend asking about augmentation. It means you add a medicine that works differently to something that’s already partially working. Wellbutrin and/or Abilify are good options. I just say this so you know there are more options after this step
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