Lustral/Sertraline

Lustral affects the brain in ways I can't even begin to describe. I lost my job. I spent forty eight days of utter hell in what I can only describe as the worst period of my life.

Lustral kills your ability to exist. It poisons every single thought you dare think (fear is an issue) until you're no more than an empty penlid.

I'd rather see my loved ones being airdropped into a firefight than have any other person go through what I did. Lustral makes you sick. Lustral makes you really, really sick.

Don't do it.

This page has a lot of interesting information on it, including that as a result of taking Sertraline you're highly likely to have diahrreah and become nauseous, sexually dysfunctional, and dizzy.

Don't fucking do it!

i was on them for 20 months. i gradually realised that i felt completely trapped and bored with life and hopeless again/still + i had put on so much weight while taking them that i felt too ashamed to be seen in public. i thought that if i was going to feel that miserable i might as well stop taking them and hope to lose weight or at least stop the weight gain. also my dread of leaving the house or seeing anyone i knew applied to the hour long bus trip and walk up to the doctor's surgery to get a repeat prescription. so i cut down and came off them slowly.

i felt better for a while. lost half a stone in a week without even trying. but it stopped there, not enough to feel more confident. now i'm a mess again. i'd underestimated how much difference they made. i'd had no major problems apart from the first week shock to the system, either.

so i suppose now it's left my system completely and the first week or two back on it will be horrible again?

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has anyone ever experienced immediate benefits from taking sertraline? My son has been having a lot of heightened episodes and meltdowns this week and quite frequently in the last year, really bad ones where he hits himself and headbutts walls. Today is his first day on sertraline and he has been extremely chilled out, smiling and calm all day if a little lethargic. I was advised that it may take at least a month to observe any discernible improvements in his ability to self-regulate, but is has been a dream today. Perhaps that his sodium valproate dosage has also been increased a few days ago could be a factor. If it carries on like this I'll be kicking myself for not trying this much sooner. The last year has nearly finished me off!

Yeah it worked very fast for me, I take it for ocd and I genuinely consider the low dosage to have saved my life.

It worked pretty fast for me but not first-day fast! Might be a difference in taking it for depression and taking it for other stuff? It sounds promising for you, though, and hopefully it'll continue to be as good. Wishing you well.

i was on sertraline for about a month and i remember feeling an immediate first-day effect even though they told me it would take weeks.

hope it continues to go well for you.

thanks folks

that sounds brilliant, gyac, was really hoping to hear something positive! If you don't mind me asking how much was your low dosage? Alex is on 50 mg a day and they are going to double it after a month.

I have a positive experience

the doc who prescribed it said I'd have to go above her for any of the stronger category of psychiatric drugs for him if this doesn't work, which made me think perhaps this might not be enough. I'm so glad to hear it's worked for other people.

His ocds have been so extreme for a long time now, to the point where it takes him up to 50 minutes for him to take his medication and bring his breakfast upstairs on a morning while he makes sure every object in the kitchen is in the right place to the millimetre. He went through a stage at college where if he saw someone put something in the bin he'd empty the entire contents of the bin back on the floor and try put them all back in the correct positions, and then have a screaming meltdown when couldn't do it to his satisfaction. I'm really hoping this kind of thing might not be occurring so much now.

thanks folks

that sounds brilliant, gyac, was really hoping to hear something positive! If you don't mind me asking how much was your low dosage? Alex is on 50 mg a day and they are going to double it after a month.

Echoing map, hope it gives you both some relief