Sertraline Health Feed

A sudden stoppage of the medication will put you at risk of adverse effects of withdrawal. These medications should be gradually withdrawn over a period of 6 months - 1 year. Rest assured, most of the major effects of these medications (including loss of libido) only lasts so long as the medication levels are sufficiently high in your body. Once it is cleared by the liver and kidneys, you are good to go. But the withdrawal course of the medication should be planned only after an one-to-one consu...more

Daxid is far superior as it come from reputed pfizer, but there are generic advocates who say they are the same. It is like 24k gold and 18k gold. Both are gold only. You make a choice.

you have given psychological advice previously you need to follow for the betterment of your problem thank you

Dear lybrate-user,
what is the severity of ocd? If you can manage without daxid for first 11-12 weeks, it will be better. If you think that your ocd will affect your child, it is better to continue along with folic acid 5 mg daily. Please do an u/s scan for abnormality at 11th week. All the best.

Hi lybrate-user, sertraline can be continued in pregnancy but to be on the safer side get clearence from your psychiatrist. If he says yes you can try for pregnancy.

Yes, you should be planning a pregnancy while taking daxid and arip medications. Please consult your psychiatrist if you are planning on becoming pregnant.
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For weight loss. It is important to take frequent meals at regular interval of time. Empty stomach try to include 2 tsp aleovera juice+ 2 tsp amla juice in equal amount of water. Include high protein with high fibre diet with less carbohydrate. Avoid to take every kind of packaged, process food and all kind of sugary drink. Try to take your dinner as soon as possible and avoid jogging after dinner, you can go for walk after dinner. You can do exercise in evening time. In Breakfast you can museli...more

Better to avoid taking quitipin in the morning. Usually it takes 4 weeks, if there is no response consult psychiatrist again he can change sertraline to some other antidepressant or increase dosage of it.

It all comes down to your level of anxiety. The way you are anxious about tablets shows your level of anxiety. Dependency happens when you self medicate. So for now- don’t worry.

Hello dear Mohammad , hi

Warm welcome to Lybrate.com
I have evaluated your query thoroughly .

* This is most probably from the side effect of sertaline , has to stop it for better sex life .

Hope this clears your query .
Wishing you fine recovery .

Welcome for any further assistance .
Regards take care .