Zoloft and chlomid interactions

Hi! So I'm on Zoloft for two years, haven't taken creatine since, started working out again and wanted to start taking creatine but i saw some people saying that being on zoloft and taking creatine is dangerous, how credible is that? Can I take it?

I (18F) got diagnosed with anxiety with symptoms like panic attacks, nausea to point of vomiting, and negative thought spirals last January. I was out on a low dose of Zoloft and besides a few minor episodes it really helped. As of late I have had panic attacks brought on by very minor stuff that lasts hours at a time. During these episodes I absolutely spiral especially about the relationships with those around me. However since a increase in these attacks my personality has done a 180. I normally am completely happy staying home and texting one or 2 friends a couple of times a day but now I cannot go without in person hangouts or social media interaction. I’m increasingly bored with things I normally love and it’s kinda scaring me. I’m not sure if my mind is just trying to cope or what.

Wow wow wow. I think my title says it all.
Recently I started on Zoloft for my PMDD and little time I know…. I’ve been Miss Little Anxiety all this time too!
I’ve been able to navigate social settings without the fear of what others think which it turns has been showing my confidence more.
I wouldn’t say I wasn’t insecure at some point in my life because I definitely have been in the past. But I very much don’t feel that way about myself - as if I’m insecure, unsure of who I am, what I do and don’t allow nowadays. I stand on business okayy 😂
I absolutely love myself, my character and values. Yet for so many situations, I would want to be the fly on the wall instead of center of attention. I would avoid trying to talk to people as much as possible.
But now it doesn’t feel as taxing to interact with others. And it’s not say I don’t care about what others think of me, because I value others perception & improving myself, but there’s not the anxiety.
There’s not the rumination on a mistake in attempting to shame myself to learn from it. It’s a simple as “these are just the circumstances, this is how to avoid those circumstances”

I did my first injection of 2.5mg on Tuesday and have felt absolutely nothing, good or bad. I almost wish that I would start to feel nauseous so that I knew it was working! Does it take awhile to ‘kick in’?
I was also warned about the interaction that zep can potentially have with anti anxiety/depression meds (I take 450mg of Bupropion (Wellbutrin) and 100 mg Sertraline (Zoloft) - has anyone had any issues with this?
And finally, I’ve been reading about people having relief from IBS and other gastrointestinal issues. I had my gallbladder removed about 20 years ago and have had stomach issues ever since. Anyone else not have a gallbladder that has good/bad experiences since starting Zep?
Thanks for listening! 💙

I’m experiencing what seems to be like either a cold or seasonal allergies. Can I take alka seltzer plus cold and flu tea while on Zoloft or will it interact?

I am currently taking 50mg Zoloft in the morning, and read that Ashwagandha could help with reducing stress too. Not enough studies to say there is an interaction, wondering if anyone had any idea?

Please help! I have severe medication anxiety and haven't had much reassurance. I've been on 12.5 mg of Zoloft for about 3 weeks now, for the past 3 days I've had a terrible cold. Congested, headache, body aches, the whole nine. I've been taking tylenol and using saline nasal spray. I need some relief!!! I've been nervous to take my Coricidin due to the dextromethorphan and guaifenesin because I read that these have interactions with Zoloft increasing your chances of serotonin syndrome ( one of my biggest fears ) Any advice?

I had a sudden, unexpected psychosis episode recently. Before this, I was making plans about my future and was very excited. I had hope and joy.
Looking back, some disturbing things were happening even then, like hearing an audible voice and paranoia, but I didn’t know something like this would ever happen. I had no clue. I wasn’t on any drugs or drinking.
The psychosis itself came after several days of not being able to sleep and not eating, and I was having a lot of sensations and experiences that were deeply disturbing. I smelled and tasted things. It was like a voice was shouting accusations and lies into my mind. The episode was horrifying and beyond terrible. It was like my mind wasn’t mine at all (things I would never even think), and it was against my will. I ended up calling the police and committed myself, and that experience was also terrifying and horrible (it wasn’t the interaction with the police that was horrible but the hospital experience). Antipsychotics given to me in the hospital stopped the psychosis mostly. Weeks later though I would have unusual paranoias that have since worn off. This has been the worst thing I’ve ever been through and it’s hard not to think of what happened every single day.
Saw a psychiatrist, who diagnosed as psychosis with depression, and was prescribed meds but was afraid of the antipsychotic and have only taken it when I can’t make it through the day. Was also prescribed Zoloft and it increased anxiety.
The aftermath is awful. I have no joy, no emotions, and a lack of peace. I don’t enjoy anything anymore. It feels like I’m gone. I’ve seen people to get help. So far, nothing helps. I do find that trying to get back into normal life is the best thing and staying social and taking walks outside.
I’ve been afraid to live alone, so moved back home with my parents after over a decade on my own, lost my job, and the first few weeks after the psychosis, I couldn’t do anything but sit on a couch in terror, thinking I couldn’t get through it. At least, it’s not that bad now.
No one that I talk to gets it. I want to understand and for things to be okay but I can’t and I’m not okay.
And idk why I’m making this post, maybe because other people get it. Has anyone gotten through this? At what point does it get better?

Looking to find out whether it’s safe to take a Wen Dan Tang (Poria & Bamboo) supplement when taking Wellbutrin (bupropion) and Zoloft (Sertraline). My acupuncturist recommended it (two pills per meal, so six per day) for dampness in my system/anxiety/dizziness. I know I should have asked my acupuncturist when she gave them to me, but it was my first session and I had a big emotional release, so I was just kind of dazed. Can’t find anything concrete on any potential downsides/interactions so far.

I've spent a lot of time on this sub and thought that I would finally make a post to ask for some advice. Sorry in advance for the long read.
I am just about to turn 20 and have been struggling with my mental health for the past 12 years of my life. Most of this was due to bullying at school which lead to me attempting suicide at the age of 8 as well as being hospitalised twice, once for a mental breakdown which resulted in me getting sedated and another due to me trying to jump out my window and then kept in hospital for 3 days. This lead me to suffer from severe social anxiety and an attachment disorder with my parents where I got incredibly anxious about leaving them. I then suffered from lots of bullying as well from the ages of 11-16 which has left a lot of deep insecurities on me.
Edit: I also began losing weight at 16 due to bullying about my weight which lead me to develop issues with food though I am not sure if it would be a clinical eating disorder. I still suffer from anxiety and stress about food and especially my weight. I have a lot of issues with my body image despite being in objectively good shape and have received compliments about my appearance. I get really in my head about food and have absolutely no structure when it comes to eating except that I try to eat a fairly low processed food and carb diet.
Another bit of information is that I have suspected for a while that I may be autistic since I have lots of sensory issues as well as struggles feeling emotions such as empathy and picking up on social cues and understanding people. I have also experienced autistic meltdowns fairly often where I get overwhelmed and often result in head banging to stop myself from thinking. I also have always been very obsessive and get new hyper fixations which generally last for a few months until I begin to lose the level of interest in them though it never fully goes.
Due to all of this I have been borderline suicidal for most of my life and the last year and a half has been particularly bad since leaving home to go to university and at one point was self medicating with alcohol. In the last few months my mental health has taken a turn for the worst and had a bad mental breakdown/autistic meltdown at Christmas and tried to wrap and elastic cord round my neck. After that I began looking at options for therapy, which I have now started, mostly pushed by my parents and girlfriend but also got really hyper focused on psychiatry. I have also been referred for a diagnosis for Autism.
In my research I came across OCD and I believe that I have that as I have always had a lot of trouble with disturbing intrusive thoughts, rumination for hours and hours about things that caused me anxiety. Reading in the OCD sub made so much of my life make sense to me and why I act the way that I do. I have also obsessively researched into antidepressants to try and find out all the information that I could on it in.
At the end of March I started the SSRI Citalopram (Celexa) at 10mg which took a about a week to start causing side effects which were: sharp increase in anxiety, apathy to food, fatigue, insomnia, hyperactivity, trouble focusing, increased sensory problems, jitteryness/restless leg syndrome, increased suicidal ideation and mental breakdowns/autistic meltdown. After a month of this medication during a mental breakdown I attempted to kill myself by strangling myself with dressing gown cord.
Due to this I then went back to my GP the next day and got my medication swapped to the SSRI Sertraline (Zoloft) at 50mg which I have now been on for 10 days. I was also given 6 Diazepam (Valium) at 5mg for when I get really overwhelmed.
Since being on Sertraline I have been struggling exceptionally with focus and sitting and in research as to why I found that ADHD can be exacerbated by SSRIs which would explain the uptick in my symptoms from starting when I began taking them. When reading up on ADHD I realised that I have been suffering from symptoms of this for years where I always struggled with concentration on tasks that did not interest me, did poorly in exams, engaged in risky behaviours, only could work when stressed and deadlines approaching, always fiddling with something, feeling the urge to climb and do pull ups on scaffolding, issues with impulsively speaking, had to be walked like a dog when a young child due to endless energy and chronic procrastination.
I was never considered for ADHD as I always performed well in school in maths and science but much worse in the subjects that did not interest me. I was also fairly well behaved due to my social anxiety being quite debilitating at times.
So that is my backstory up to the present and here is where I am at the moment. My plan is to come off the Sertraline basically cold turkey as I have only been on it for a short amount of time and am on a very low dose. Then I am trying to get diagnosed for ADHD and then try some medication for that to see how that helps me with my inattention and hyperactivity. After that I will then antidepressants again to help me with my depression, anxiety and OCD. I plan to try the SSRI Fluvoxamine (Luvox) as it seems to be better for OCD and has a nicer side effect profile without any major drug-drug interactions with ADHD medication.
Edit: I have now begun tapering off Sertraline. The GP I saw was a complete idiot who knew nothing and didn’t seem to understand anything. He asked me questions like “so why don’t you kill yourself? What do you have to look forward to?” He was googling to check if what I said about my medication and tapering was correct. So anyway I’m gonna be on 50mg every other day for a week and then 25mg every other day for a week. I have also been referred for an ADHD diagnosis and plan to get that done privately and to see a psychiatrist about medication and mental health in the future.
If anyone reads this I would really appreciate any advice you could give me on my plan and any tips to help.

I hope this isn't a dumb question - I am the parent of a fourth grade girl who was diagnosed with dyslexia recently and this is all pretty new to me. I hope I'm missing something, actually, because I'm confused and pissed and sad.
This ended up being longer than my single question - I guess I am actually really pissed off and sad about the last nine months in general, and I am completely open to any feedback, advice, or ideas about what to do now and how to help my kid. This is the first time I wrote all of this down and the irony of writing a novel on a dyslexia subreddit is not lost on me.
I'm leaving it lol.
Cora has always been brilliant and weird and loud, but over the last few years, it became apparent that she was having a harder time....stopping. Stopping talking, stopping moving, stopping yelling - it was just endless and exhausting for everyone around her. (Except at school. She is and was perfectly behaved at school - she has literally never gotten so much as a note home about goofing off in class.) Cora hit a wall in third grade - the hyperactivity was finally wearing her out, too, and annoying her friends. She finally asked for some help slowing down.
She was tested for ADHD and the general host of common mental health conditions last fall, and to no one's surprise, was diagnosed with ADHD-combined type, as well as anxiety symptoms that the psychologist described as significant enough to warrant a GAD diagnosis…but that she strongly suspected were a perfectly rational reaction to the very real problems Cora’s impulsiveness caused in her life.
This was exactly my experience as someone diagnosed with ADHD as an adult. It turns out that the consequences of constantly losing my car keys, forgetting appointments, and impulsively spending money I didn’t have were making me anxious and stressed, not the other way around. I had expected similar results for Cora and I was glad this was happening now - she could skip the years of totally ineffective treatment and misdiagnoses that I went through before being diagnosed and successfully treated.
What we were not expecting at all was the additional diagnosis of "specific learning disorder with reading impairment" noted in the report. I had no idea what this meant. The psychologist did not use the word "dyslexia" in her written evaluation, a decision which resulted in another 8 months of confusion and (probably unnecessary) testing detailed below. She explained to us that Cora could have dyslexia, but that her testing wasn't granular enough to be sure - that there was a chance it was "something else" and the SLD diagnosis was an umbrella term that covered both dyslexia and conditions unknown. (I have no idea what she was referring to and the general weirdness about using the word dyslexia was something I noticed with the school, too. I am still confused by this and other interactions where I get the distinct feeling people aren’t telling me something important.)
It was almost September, so the psychologist recommended pursuing testing with the school; this seemed to be a reasonable next step. They would test Cora and determine exactly what was going on, if anything. This whole part of the report was very much characterized as an incidental finding - something to follow up on, but nothing alarming given Cora’s history of good grades.
"Maybe she was just tired after a long day of testing,” the doctor explained. “But it also seemed like she wasn't hearing certain letters correctly." Years of speech therapy had helped Cora correct all but a few minor issues - but combined with this potential reading issue, maybe an audiologist should test her again. Get her hearing tested, start medication for ADHD, and see what the school says about her reading - that was the plan, no big deal.
I wasn't worried, but I figured it couldn't hurt to see what other help was available. I learned that we have a branch of a big tutoring nonprofit in our city that offers Orton-Gillingham instruction at no charge - something I soon realized would cost hundreds of dollars per month at other centers. Free is good! I submitted Cora's application and the report from the psychologist (with the ADHD/GAD/SLD all clearly noted)….and we got a rejection letter a week later in the mail. Cora didn't qualify because the tutoring was specific to dyslexia, and the SLD with reading impairment was not the same as a formal dyslexia diagnosis. Fair enough, I thought - I figured we'd get the testing done through her school and could reapply if the result was a dyslexia diagnosis.
That....was naïve, lol. But the psychologist made it sound like a total non-issue, something schools did all the time. I sent the school psychologist and teachers the report before school even started, since surely they would want to schedule all of this right away! I didn’t hear anything for a few weeks – the start of the school year must be such a busy time, after all – but raised it again, report in hand, at a meeting with Cora’s teacher in late September.
“You….really want to try to avoid putting a label on things too quickly,” she told me, in a tone that implied there was much more that she was not saying. “She seems to be doing quite well in class. Let’s see how she does on the standardized tests we’re finishing this week and go from there.” I was definitely aware that I was missing something, but it seemed reasonable to wait for Cora’s test results if they would help inform next steps. Cora scored well above average, as usual; shortly after receiving these scores, the school psychologist emailed me to let me know that no further testing was warranted.
I still felt like I was missing something – spoiler alert, I was – but there didn’t seem to be anything else left to do. They're the experts and were totally unconcerned – only positive news - and Cora’s new ADHD meds seemed to be really helping. After that, everything did seem to be okay at school for a while. Cora liked her teachers and was doing well.
Everything was copacetic…except for the fact that Cora’s anxiety seemed to be getting worse without any tangible explanation. She complained about fourth grade being a lot harder, but again – her grades were fine, she was perfectly behaved, she liked her teachers….it was difficult to identify any problem that needed solving. Soon, Cora started getting home and isolating herself in her room for over an hour every day. She seemed stressed. Worn out. This went on for months.
And then she had her first panic attack on a Sunday night, seemingly out of nowhere. She wanted a mental health day Monday and was back in school Tuesday, seemingly her normal self.
The next Sunday, she had another panic attack, and this one was much, much worse. She lost control of her bladder. I was close to taking her to the ER. It was scary. That's when it all came out. She was DREADING school - her two hours of ELA in the mornings had become “torture.” She was white-knuckling it through the reading, writing, and spelling work, totally clueless as to why it seemed so much harder for her than for other kids, but so determined to get good grades that she had just burned. the. fuck. OUT.
She was home for days after this. The school tried to dismiss my concerns at first - it couldn't have been that bad, I was told. To be fair, my concerns were vague because I still didn’t understand the real issues or how to help Cora, either. Cora was clearly unwell and adamantly refused to return to school. I started putting everything in formal, written letters emailed to all of her teachers, the school psychologist, and everyone else who seemed potentially relevant. I told them I wasn't sending her back until they did something to try to figure out what was going on in ELA.
That was mid-February. We had a meeting before I would agree to send Cora back, where they talked about putting together the "interdisciplinary team" to conduct "extensive classroom observation.” They insisted that this process would take at least 60 days to complete. Cora reports that there have been three days where someone has essentially come to her ELA class and stared at her while she works.
We weren’t just waiting for the school, though. After the psych eval last summer, we had been slowly working through additional evaluations and appointments related to Cora’s hearing, speech, and language abilities. Basically, we were working our way from Cora's ears into different regions of her brain, trying to catch problems along the path that sound waves traveled - entering Cora's head as vibrations in her ear canals, winding into her brain as phenomes, assembling into a stream of recognizable words, converting into meaning in entirely different areas of her brain, and eventually emerging again via her speech. I had no idea so many tiny things could go wrong in that process, but they can - and we can get pretty damn granular in order to figure that shit out when there’s a potential problem. Cora had some weird results here and there - we now know that overlapping speech is basically her Kryptonite, which explains a lot of meltdowns at family gatherings over the years. But on the whole, her ears and her brain are doing fine, and she doesn't have autism, either.
We had been lucky to get hooked up with the best child development team in the area - they were wonderful, and the process of more testing and visits seemed to reassure Cora (and us, honestly) that there was more help on the horizon, more answers soon. She started low-dose Zoloft for the anxiety and seemed a little happier; her anxiety about school was starting to morph into resignation and frustration, which actually seemed healthier in a way. "It takes time," they tell us. Her breakdown was in February. They wanted to see the report from the most recent evaluations. Fair enough; although it is not lost on me that I am paying an outside team to do the school's job, at least it's getting done.
Two weeks ago, we finally got the team's report - and the written words, "developmental dyslexia." The lead psychologist is going to meet with the 504 team at her school - he is wonderful and immediately understood so many of Cora's concerns and needs. I'm not exactly optimistic, but it's at least possible that this may result in accommodations/extra help in school. Cora thinks he walks on water and is so excited that he's going to "stand up for" her.
The report is detailed and confirmed a lot of what we suspected. She's a really bright kid - IQ around 120 with sky high mathematics and nonverbal problem-solving scores. She apparently discussed "conundrums that are complex and abstract in nature" during her sessions, with a "recognition that there is not necessarily a solution" to these mysterious issues. (LMAO....this is my weird and wonderful kid.) The report describes Cora as "delightful" - funny, self aware, and highly motivated to learn.
Her reading comprehension score was in the 90th percentile, essay composition in the 70th - spelling scores came in at the 25th percentile, which was no surprise. Pseudoword decoding was poor - she's in the 14th percentile - and it got worse from there. Cora has an oral reading fluency in the 9th percentile, a basic reading score in the 7th percentile, and a word reading score in the 4th percentile.
In fact, the essay composition score was the only "average" score among dozens of measures of her reading, writing, and language abilities - comprehension was universally excellent and decoding was universally abysmal. It was hard to read. It felt like a gut punch - looking at the single-digit scores, I finally realized the insane degree of effort it must have taken to finish her work and look happy doing it.
The developmental psychologist leading the team told us that it was unusual to see that stark of a difference - that the severity of her impairments are usually associated with average comprehension scores at best. I have tried to wade through research about these instruments, but decided to take his word for it. Typically, the deficits in her basic reading skills would set off a chain reaction of lower scores down the line - but Cora had brought her grades and tests scores up from an already high start at the beginning of the year.
"It's no wonder her anxiety symptoms are increasing - she's completely exhausted," he said. "Imagine what she could achieve with the right kind of help."
I realized then why Cora's high scores and good grades, so impressive to everyone else, were such a source of consternation for her. That chain reaction was still happening, getting in the way of what she was actually capable of achieving. She knew it, even if the rest of us didn't - she could do better with the right kind of help.
I honestly feel sick thinking about it. She never told anyone she was struggling, never asked for help - not from us, not from anyone at school, heck not from her former-literacy-teacher grandma. No one had any idea. My husband and I had actually encouraged her to slow down a little in the weeks before her panic attacks, just out of a general sense that something was brewing despite her repeated insistence she was doing fine. Turn in the worksheet a day late, three sentences is plenty, relax. Unthinkable, Cora insisted, she was fine.
So she's back at school, nothing has changed other than the glacially slow 504 process of "observation" occurring in the background sometimes, but she seems to be a bit less stressed. I can't tell if getting pissed off about the situation is helping her deal with it, if the Zoloft is taking the edge off, or if she's just masking harder now. Maybe all three. 18 more days of school and Cora is counting. them. down. Her teachers and support staff seem generally bewildered by the idea she is or was ever struggling. They were caught totally off guard when I abruptly pulled her out of school until we at least got them to commit to the 504 process – but we had been blindsided too. They saw a happy kid who was thriving academically until her parents pulled her out of school and started a process that no one seems particularly committed to finishing. Sometimes I think they don't believe us at all. Maybe I would feel the same way in their shoes, I don’t know. I think they’ll listen to the doctor.
The entire point of this post, though, was to ask about Cora’s second rejection from the local tutoring program. With summer approaching and the diagnosis of dyslexia (versus maybe-dyslexia, maybe-whatever-else-could-be-included-under-the-SLD-“umbrella”, which I am still unsure is even a thing), I've been looking into all sorts of options for tutoring. Summer is a good opportunity to try to start getting Cora some meaningful help without adding yet another thing to her plate. She's excited. We can build some tools before next year - if we know what works for her, we can be better advocates from Day 1.
So I resubmitted Cora's application - I still had my original email and I just attached the shiny new report to that, explaining where to find the magic D word that I fully expected would finally open a door where Cora could get the right kind of help. This new report was more granular with reading testing, but the dyslexia diagnosis was the one really substantive change. It included Cora's ADHD and anxiety diagnoses, as did the report I submitted with our initial application, but with new information about medication and treatment for these issues - progress!
(I would like to point out at this point that ADHD and anxiety are firmly established as two of the most common comorbid diagnoses for kids with dyslexia, and that anxiety symptoms in particular can occur because of the challenges caused by dyslexia. My daughter had full-blown panic attacks at 10 years old largely because she struggles to FUCKING READ and no one was helping her. I know I am preaching to what little choir is likely left at this point in my novel. But especially as someone who was medicated/treated for depression and anxiety for 20 years before anyone agreed to test for, diagnose, and treat the ADHD symptoms that were causing me to regularly fuck up my life in really depressing and stressful ways…..this chicken and egg shit really hits a nerve.)
Anyhoo, it had taken 8 months and a lot of work, but I had finally done this one cool thing for her - Cora was going to get the right kind of help. The school year is almost over, but at least we had this one success. The obstacle that I’m still not sure was warranted in the first place – the lack of the word dyslexia in the initial evaluation – had been checked off what was now a giant list of obstacles in Cora's path.
And thanks to the generosity of people who had probably heard and experienced a lot of similar, frustrating stories, our family could focus on paying off the bills accumulated in the process of getting to this point instead of adding more to the pile. Free is always good, but sometimes free is a godsend.
Twelve hours later, Cora was denied again, this time via a brief email simply noting the GAD diagnosis in both reports. "Our tutors are not trained to work with children who are diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorders" and they "cannot meet her needs."
That was it. No further explanation. Just…fuck your anxious baby girl who is trying so hard and fuck you for trying. NEXT!
Oh, and P.S., fuck the really significant percentage of kids with dyslexia with comorbid anxiety diagnoses who are incredibly well researched and described in just…all of the fucking literature. Just all of it, honestly, for decades. Fuck those kids too.
People seem to treat the word "dyslexia" like it's the only thing that matters sometimes but also not something that should be ever said in other contexts, AND I'm pretty fucking sure that "SLD with reading impairment" is essentially equivalent to the word dyslexia because no one can explain what else might be under that "umbrella," and apparently it's nigh impossible to get meaningful help for my daughter through the public school systems anywhere in America, and giant nonprofits care about kids with dyslexia so much, but not the anxious ones, better lock the doors before those crybabies get their needs all over our tutoring center!
We will figure out how to pay for help for Cora, that’s a given.
But honest to fucking god, have you guys just been putting up with this shit the whole time? I'm so sorry.

I had an appointment with my psychiatrist today. she prescribed me zoloft and for some reason she expected the pvcs I have been having to go away. I have a stress test on this coming monday and she is making me stop all of my medication and told me to take ativan until the appointment. she also said they’re probably going to have to do something medical for my pvcs. she also said they may hospitalize me as well. which scared the crap out of me. I have a low burden of pvcs but she was like since i’m having them everyday and not getting better with the zoloft then something must be wrong. now i’m terrified because of this interaction i just had with her. just needed to vent i feel very down right now about this all

I’m day 7 of Paxil after getting out of inpatient treatment for a suicide attempt/ideation.
I’ve taken Paxil before but they switched me 2 days in because they thought it was interacting with an old medication I was on.
I’ve never experienced side effects like this from an SSRI and I’ve been on multiple before, Zoloft ended up working for 6 years until it began not working at all, actually making things worse.
I have teeth chattering, yawning constantly despite not being tired (which almost feels like I can’t breathe or catch my breath, almost like when you have an orgasm. It’s so strange) and the dizziness… at night when I take it with my insomnia medications it almost feels like I can see the walls… breathing? It’s so weird. Yet it keeps me up, despite being tired because when I close my eyes I can still feel the dizziness if that makes sense, as if my eyes are rolling around in my head.
My psychiatrist in inpatient said it usually takes a few weeks for side effects to wear off, and that it’s normal to have a few. It actually is helping quite a bit already, I feel less anxious and haven’t had as frequent panic attacks since discharge. So I’m not gonna give up on it, but I wanna know how long it took for side effects to wear off? My doctor did say that he refrains from prescribing Paxil in many situations because it’s really hard to go on and come off, but since I’ve been on probably 10 different depression meds and am extremely treatment resistant, this is kinda the only choice I have before getting into older tricyclic drugs that would cause me to have to change 2 other meds due to interactions.

I have anxiety, depression, bipolar 2, & ocd, with anxiety affecting my life the most- im taking zoloft and buspirone with caplyta. Both zoloft & buspirone have not helped as much as i thought, and i just started caplyta 2 days ago. I read caplyta helps to treat the depressive episodes, but was wondering if this medication has helped with anxiety, or if it negatively interacts with the other drugs?

34 Female here
Hey everyone,
I take 10mg of Buspar 3x daily for anxiety along with 150mg of Zoloft daily for depression. Lately I have been having a lot of sinus pain and I have heard a variety of things regarding sinus medications. My psychiatrist says to absolutely not take things like sudafed or things with a decongestant, especially those beginning with the letters P and D. My PCP says that sudafed is fine and she can't find any interactions that would be dangerous. Although I know serotonin syndrome can be rare one time before I knew about the interactions I took some mucinex sinus and it made me feel very sick. Is there anything that I can take to help with sinus pressure, pain, and congestion? My psychiatrist and pcp are telling me different things.

Hey everyone,
I take 10mg of Buspar 3x daily along with 150mg of Zoloft daily. Lately I have been having a lot of sinus pain and I have heard a variety of things regarding sinus medications. My psychiatrist says to absolutely not take things like sudafed or things with a decongestant, especially those beginning with the letters P and D. My PCP says that sudafed is fine and she can't find any interactions that would be dangerous. Although I know serotonin syndrome can be rare one time before I knew about the interactions I took some mucinex sinus and it made me feel very sick. Is there anything that I can take to help with sinus pressure, pain, and congestion? My psychiatrist and pcp are telling me different things.

Hey everyone,
I take 10mg of Buspar 3x daily along with 150mg of Zoloft daily. Lately I have been having a lot of sinus pain and I have heard a variety of things regarding sinus medications. My psychiatrist says to absolutely not take things like sudafed or things with a decongestant, especially those beginning with the letters P and D. My PCP says that sudafed is fine and she can't find any interactions that would be dangerous. Although I know serotonin syndrome can be rare one time before I knew about the interactions I took some mucinex sinus and it made me feel very sick. Is there anything that I can take to help with sinus pressure, pain, and congestion? My psychiatrist and pcp are telling me different things.

Does anyone know if it’s okay to take cranberry pills and Zoloft? I took my cranberry supplement and a few hours later I took my Zoloft I just wanted to know if there is any interactions between the two of them

I've spent a lot of time on this sub and thought that I would finally make a post to ask for some advice. Sorry in advance for the long read.
I am just about to turn 20 and have been struggling with my mental health for the past 12 years of my life. Most of this was due to bullying at school which lead to me attempting suicide at the age of 8 as well as being hospitalised twice, once for a mental breakdown which resulted in me getting sedated and another due to me trying to jump out my window and then kept in hospital for 3 days. This lead me to suffer from severe social anxiety and an attachment disorder with my parents where I got incredibly anxious about leaving them. I then suffered from lots of bullying as well from the ages of 11-16 which has left a lot of deep insecurities on me.
Another bit of information is that I have suspected for a while that I may be autistic since I have lots of sensory issues as well as struggles feeling emotions such as empathy and picking up on social cues and understanding people. I have also experienced autistic meltdowns fairly often where I get overwhelmed and often result in head banging to stop myself from thinking. I also have always been very obsessive and get new hyper fixations which generally last for a few months until I begin to lose the level of interest in them though it never fully goes.
Due to all of this I have been borderline suicidal for most of my life and the last year and a half has been particularly bad since leaving home to go to university and at one point was self medicating with alcohol. In the last few months my mental health has taken a turn for the worst and had a bad mental breakdown/autistic meltdown at Christmas and tried to wrap and elastic cord round my neck. After that I began looking at options for therapy, which I have now started, mostly pushed by my parents and girlfriend but also got really hyper focused on psychiatry. I have also been referred for a diagnosis for Autism.
In my research I came across OCD and I believe that I have that as I have always had a lot of trouble with disturbing intrusive thoughts, rumination for hours and hours about things that caused me anxiety. Reading in the OCD sub made so much of my life make sense to me and why I act the way that I do. I have also obsessively researched into antidepressants to try and find out all the information that I could on it in.
At the end of March I started the SSRI Citalopram (Celexa) at 10mg which took a about a week to start causing side effects which were: sharp increase in anxiety, apathy to food, fatigue, insomnia, hyperactivity, trouble focusing, increased sensory problems, jitteryness/restless leg syndrome, increased suicidal ideation and mental breakdowns/autistic meltdown. After a month of this medication during a mental breakdown I attempted to kill myself by strangling myself with dressing gown cord.
Due to this I then went back to my GP the next day and got my medication swapped to the SSRI Sertraline (Zoloft) at 50mg which I have now been on for 10 days. I was also given 6 Diazepam (Valium) at 5mg for when I get really overwhelmed.
Since being on Sertraline I have been struggling exceptionally with focus and sitting and in research as to why I found that ADHD can be exacerbated by SSRIs which would explain the uptick in my symptoms from starting when I began taking them. When reading up on ADHD I realised that I have been suffering from symptoms of this for years where I always struggled with concentration on tasks that did not interest me, did poorly in exams, engaged in risky behaviours, only could work when stressed and deadlines approaching, always fiddling with something, feeling the urge to climb and do pull ups on scaffolding, issues with impulsively speaking, had to be walked like a dog when a young child due to endless energy and chronic procrastination.
I was never considered for ADHD as I always performed well in school in maths and science but much worse in the subjects that did not interest me. I was also fairly well behaved due to my social anxiety being quite debilitating at times.
So that is my backstory up to the present and here is where I am at the moment. My plan is to come off the Sertraline basically cold turkey as I have only been on it for a short amount of time and am on a very low dose. Then I am trying to get diagnosed for ADHD and then try some medication for that to see how that helps me with my inattention and hyperactivity. After that I will then antidepressants again to help me with my depression, anxiety and OCD. I plan to try the SSRI Fluvoxamine (Luvox) as it seems to be better for OCD and has a nicer side effect profile without any major drug-drug interactions with ADHD medication.
If anyone reads this I would really appreciate any advice you could give me on my plan and any tips to help.

Hello. Male 33yo. Smoker. I was on meds on and off since I was 15 for anxiety,panick attacks and depression. SSRI's and BDZ mostly, TCA and Bruproprion and some mood stab.(I can provide full list if it could be helpful)
Abused weed last 6 years(alongside meds) and in december quit cold turkey alongside a quick taper of pregabalin 50mg and trazodone 75mg and bdz low dose.
It was pure hell with intrusive thoughts,insomnia, random songs playing, all of the anxiety disorders and depression. OCD, ADhD, And pleasurless orgasms too :( After a month and half of hell asked for help.
A new doctor reintroduced pregabalin and trazodone (first 100mg preg now tapered to 50, and 75 traz now tapered to 25) he also added quetiapine (50mg that I tapered to 25 now as I felt like its fucking my cognition up and give me some weird sides like "delusions" such as people being angry at me or talking bad about me eve. Tho i realize is not real...) and clomipramine 10mg that we tried to increase to 20 but I couldnt tolerate.
So my actual med cocktail is: clomipramine 10, pregabalin 50, quetiapine 25, trazodone 25 and lexotan 3/5 drops x2. He now wants to add sertraline 25mg and if I improve taper the rest i guess. Does this cocktail make sense? I get that are low doses but are those interactions safe? Is it possibile that my cognition and memory are fucked up cuz of them? Or should I just believe is weed paws?
Im afraid to add zoloft on top given that my libido is already low and my orgasms weak and afraid that my cognition and memory will be worst.(I cant even remember what I read after few seconds and im time blind basically)
Also im wondering how hard will be to taper all of these different meds at some point and risking developing paws from any of them. Feels like a russian roulette for side effects too even if low dosages but I am not a doctor. Should I do an ECG? Could you advice what blood test could be helpful?
What do you guys think... Should I risk zoloft on top as adviced or maybe better tapering something first? Or should I just change doctor? Thanks a lot.

I've spent a lot of time on this sub and thought that I would finally make a post to ask for some advice. Sorry in advance for the long read.
I am just about to turn 20 and have been struggling with my mental health for the past 12 years of my life. Most of this was due to bullying at school which lead to me attempting suicide at the age of 8 as well as being hospitalised twice, once for a mental breakdown which resulted in me getting sedated and another due to me trying to jump out my window and then kept in hospital for 3 days. This lead me to suffer from severe social anxiety and an attachment disorder with my parents where I got incredibly anxious about leaving them. I then suffered from lots of bullying as well from the ages of 11-16 which has left a lot of deep insecurities on me.
Edit: I also began losing weight at 16 due to bullying about my weight which lead me to develop issues with food though I am not sure if it would be a clinical eating disorder. I still suffer from anxiety and stress about food and especially my weight. I have a lot of issues with my body image despite being in objectively good shape and have received compliments about my appearance. I get really in my head about food and have absolutely no structure when it comes to eating except that I try to eat a fairly low processed food and carb diet.
Another bit of information is that I have suspected for a while that I may be autistic since I have lots of sensory issues as well as struggles feeling emotions such as empathy and picking up on social cues and understanding people. I have also experienced autistic meltdowns fairly often where I get overwhelmed and often result in head banging to stop myself from thinking. I also have always been very obsessive and get new hyper fixations which generally last for a few months until I begin to lose the level of interest in them though it never fully goes.
Due to all of this I have been borderline suicidal for most of my life and the last year and a half has been particularly bad since leaving home to go to university and at one point was self medicating with alcohol. In the last few months my mental health has taken a turn for the worst and had a bad mental breakdown/autistic meltdown at Christmas and tried to wrap and elastic cord round my neck. After that I began looking at options for therapy, which I have now started, mostly pushed by my parents and girlfriend but also got really hyper focused on psychiatry. I have also been referred for a diagnosis for Autism.
In my research I came across OCD and I believe that I have that as I have always had a lot of trouble with disturbing intrusive thoughts, rumination for hours and hours about things that caused me anxiety. Reading in the OCD sub made so much of my life make sense to me and why I act the way that I do. I have also obsessively researched into antidepressants to try and find out all the information that I could on it in.
At the end of March I started the SSRI Citalopram (Celexa) at 10mg which took a about a week to start causing side effects which were: sharp increase in anxiety, apathy to food, fatigue, insomnia, hyperactivity, trouble focusing, increased sensory problems, jitteryness/restless leg syndrome, increased suicidal ideation and mental breakdowns/autistic meltdown. After a month of this medication during a mental breakdown I attempted to kill myself by strangling myself with dressing gown cord.
Due to this I then went back to my GP the next day and got my medication swapped to the SSRI Sertraline (Zoloft) at 50mg which I have now been on for 10 days. I was also given 6 Diazepam (Valium) at 5mg for when I get really overwhelmed.
Since being on Sertraline I have been struggling exceptionally with focus and sitting and in research as to why I found that ADHD can be exacerbated by SSRIs which would explain the uptick in my symptoms from starting when I began taking them. When reading up on ADHD I realised that I have been suffering from symptoms of this for years where I always struggled with concentration on tasks that did not interest me, did poorly in exams, engaged in risky behaviours, only could work when stressed and deadlines approaching, always fiddling with something, feeling the urge to climb and do pull ups on scaffolding, issues with impulsively speaking, had to be walked like a dog when a young child due to endless energy and chronic procrastination.
I was never considered for ADHD as I always performed well in school in maths and science but much worse in the subjects that did not interest me. I was also fairly well behaved due to my social anxiety being quite debilitating at times.
So that is my backstory up to the present and here is where I am at the moment. My plan is to come off the Sertraline basically cold turkey as I have only been on it for a short amount of time and am on a very low dose. Then I am trying to get diagnosed for ADHD and then try some medication for that to see how that helps me with my inattention and hyperactivity. After that I will then antidepressants again to help me with my depression, anxiety and OCD. I plan to try the SSRI Fluvoxamine (Luvox) as it seems to be better for OCD and has a nicer side effect profile without any major drug-drug interactions with ADHD medication.
If anyone reads this I would really appreciate any advice you could give me on my plan and any tips to help.

I've been on 100mg of Zoloft since I think November and it helped my OCD a bunch I'm not going off of it for a while but I was wondering how shrooms and Zoloft interact I've tripped only twice the first time 2g second was 3g and if I ever do them again what do you guys recommend should I do fewer shrooms or more or just not at all?