Anyone experience more anxiety the first week on this medicine ? If so did it subside and what did you take to help it? I noticed it’s helping the thought intensity but the chest tightness is killing me !
Yes! I’ve noticed about 45 minutes after my morning dose I feel really weird and anxious and I guess disconnected. I haven’t talked to my provider about it yet, but yes, very unpleasant. I’ve been on it for a while, but we did just adjust my dosage.
@Anonymous I might ask them if I can just take it at night, since I usually take it and go right to bed and sleep through the weird side effect. By the time I wake up in the morning I feel fine.
@Anonymous Mine is opposite … I take it at night and still feel and still get tight chest anxiousness
@kaymart I’m sorry! That sounds super unpleasant! I am glad you posted. I’ve been wondering if I was just imagining the side effect, but now I don’t think I am.
@Anonymous Idk I decreased mine to 5mg because I was so nauseous and dizzy. I took a Hydroxyzine 25mg with it just now to help control the nausea and maybe it might help the anxiety with it idk …
I didn't feel like buspar helped me with ocd at all. Wellbutrin has been helping me.
@Easons Did it help with anxiety?
@kaymart Honestly not significantly for me. Maybe my dose was too low though. I think I was only taking 15mg twice a day.
Yes.
@Erin P Did it go away?!
@kaymart Yes
@Erin P How long after and what dose were you on ?
@kaymart Don’t know where my brain was - I haven’t tried this one. My apologies.
Buspar is an anxiety drug, not an ocd drug. It’s an anxiolytic to be exact. I’ve taken it for a long time now. Over 12 months. I like it a lot. It sometimes doesn’t help too much on really bad days unless I take extra or max dose. Talk to your doctor before doing that though.
@cprock17 Yes I’m taking it to control the anxiety but this is my first week on it and I feel the anxiety is amplified
So i have an appointment with a doctor in 2 days, but im terrified of taking medication for anxiety, i tried it twice at 15 and would immediately stop taking them after a week or 2 because I was so scared of the side effects, then I tried fluoxetine at 18 and it gave me such bad anxiety with even the first 2 pills that I stopped that as well, now I'm 25 and im willing to try again and stick to it but my mind keeps bringing up all the reasons why I shouldn't and that it could make me worse, make me manic, make me numb, change me etc. Any help or advice welcome
Hi everyone, I’m 23 and have been on Zoloft since I was 16. For the past couple months I’ve been having panic attacks more and I’m sick of feeling like a zombie everyday. My boyfriend said I’m very sad and unhappy then when I first met him 2 years ago…. He thinks it’s the medicine. Throughout the years I have upped and lowered my medication, but now, I feel as though it’s not helping. Either it was too much where I didn’t feel emotions at all like very scary stuff or it wasn’t enough to help me. I was given 5mg of Lexapro to try…. I’m scared to take it. All I know is how Zoloft is. I don’t want to go crazy on it, be allergic to it, etc. I feel like I’m going to trip myself out when I take it and not actually feel the difference. I could really use some positive feedback I really just want to be a normal human😭
For starters I was on this medicine before i remember the first few weeks were very scary and debilitating. I don’t remember why I stopped taking it , it was about 7 months ago. but I just recently started back because my ocd and anxiety has been off the chain. I keep having bad thoughts about the side affects and I’m terrified like “ what if I have a seizure” can anybody share an experience? Anyone on Zoloft here. Thanks !
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