When I first started at the lower dosages, I had extreme disorientation and suicidal thoughts. I...
Sertraline is less likely to cause anxiety than other SSRI drugs, but it still can cause a little nervousness at first. 50 mil is a very low dose for a grown man ( looking at the pic there, you could be a small woman with a man pic here I guess, lol )
Nausea and or loss of appetite can be really common at first. If you dont realize you're not eating it can create blood sugar dips that create anxiety also.
Increasing the dose to 100 mil would likely make it better, which sounds wrong, but thats how these work. My son is 18 and he takes 100mg, on less than that he had more side effects. He takes it for anxiety and OCD.
Gabapentin is an awesome drug for anxiety depending on the dosage. If you hit the right dose its great. Too much and it can make you feel groggy and disoriented all the time.
One of the main things you have to watch with Gabapentin, that doctors dont often warn about, is that it has a 4 -5 life span in your body, and when it wears off you may abruptly feel worse without realizing why. If you are anxious without realizing it, when the gaba is suddenly worn off you may feel the anxiety as a sudden panic attack when it was there all along but being masked by the drug.
Gabapentin is non addictive and not a narcotic, but it DOES produce significant unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when its abruptly discontinued. Its just the way it works in the system that produce a rebound effect when stopped. That is worse in higher doses of course. There's no question that it is safer and easier to deal with than class A drugs like Xanax and Klonopin, if you can make it work for you its a good thing.
You've got to get a hobby or some kind of obligation to fill in those old drunken, smoking, gambling weekends! Take up a new hobby or sign up to volunteer somewhere asap!! Been there my friend, you've got to fill the void the ugly left behind with something good or you'll get dragged back to it. :tup:
