My doctor has given me? sertraline For my anxiety? What side effects did you have. Also did it decrease your sex drive when your sex drive is normal?

[Anonymous]

What effects did you have during the 6 months or how long you on them for?

i got to take one a day with breakfast am nervous as I heard you can feel sick gain weight

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I got the wrong medication it’s Citalopram

[duttyjamagyal]

When I stared sertraline and it actually started making me leave my room, I gained like thirty pounds chowing down on everything in sight, I'm not as much now but still not back to where I was before but that's my own fault tbh, um about libido, for me it disappeared but I was on like a really high dose so I don't know maybe it won't affect you, but my depression was already affecting it... what really matters is if that the benefits outweigh the side effects, for me personally there was no way I was going to consider anything else, I had to be on them and I was glad I did. I was on them for a year and a half and came of them last month and im trying Wellbutrin now

[Zolly99999]

Yes be careful with these drugs.. weight gain and decreased libido are the 2 main side effects.. I went through a whole bunch of then years ago

[Asker]

Did it get better when you came off them?

[Zolly99999]

Yes everything went back to normal for the weight and libido..

[Zolly99999]

As per your update
I took that stuff too...

[Asker]

That’s good

[Zolly99999]

While it does the job it's suppose to do it cones with side affects. Weight gain, loss of libido and it made me tired all the time.

[Asker]

What was it like took my first one day

[Zolly99999]

The side affects don't happen over night. They take a long time to start. Like 3-4 months.

[Zolly99999]

Ask your doctor is there anything else he can give you other the a SSRI family of drugs.

[Asker]

Ok thank you yeah I had sicky feeling all day not wanting to eat. Also it effected my chest like I breathe heavey now and then

[Zolly99999]

I hate them

[hahahmm]

So now you're anxious about the drugs the doctor is feeding you.

[Asker]

What I read about side effects don’t really wanna gain more weight as am feeling over weight anyway. But if it helps with me over worrying and ocd with things might help short term.

[hahahmm]

So, make sure you study what's best to eat & how best to exercise and do those things. No free lunches in life. People have to put in work to get what they want. From a male POV it seems like way more women don't get this because they can get a lot without putting in much effort but men get zero in life without effort.

[Asker]

I make an effort like exercising and going outdoors helps lot and trying to eat healthier

[hahahmm]

Think of the stuff others told you it would be best to not do.. and avoid doing those things. As somebody who was never anxious.. I have known anxious people. Of course telling someone what to do is easier than doing it but I always believed if they simply lived as if there was nothing to worry about (so they didn't verbalize anxious stuff or do actions reflecting that) they could train their mind to get away from it. My 2 cents.

[Anonymous]

I suggest you do some reading up on it.