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Sertraline - Antidepressants & hypos

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I took my first dose last night (25mg) and as expected I’ve had a couple of hypos and my sugars are brilliant, unheard of for the morning for me!

I’ve dropped my levemir by a couple of units & I’m doing regular scans of my Libre. I was wondering how aggressively I should reduce my insulin? For example, I’m aware that going from pens to pump there‘s a drop in about 30% and I wasn’t sure if there was this kinda of information available for those going onto SSRIs?
 
I took Sertraline for a while and it had no effect whatever on my BG or the panic attacks.
 
Yeah there was - but mainly retiring from work and eliminating where a lot (but not all) of the stress emanated from. Bit drastic for most people but I was close to retirement anyway so it didn't really affect our lives except with me becoming happier. A catalogue of life events leading to a case of the straw that almost broke this camel's back, completely. I got A LOT of help from people who really knew me, not least my husband.

Can either you, or someone very close to you, stand back and identify where your stressors actually are and fathom out how you can try to lessen their effect upon you?

Stress, illness or trauma of every kind tends to increase BG - all to do with adrenalin and other natural bodily reactions - (how fortunate (????) that we have a way of measuring the awful effect these things have on our body ........) and we have to try and treat and live with the effects whatever way we can.

Bit like diabetes - not all drugs diets exercise or lifestyles suit everyone - and Tranqus are similar. Just because sertraline did nowt very useful for me does NOT mean it won't help you. Have to say my GP saw me every month cos he did have a great interest in MH and I had a lot of help diabetes-wise - are you going to get enough help with all of it? What's it looking like you are likely to get?
 
Has the possibility of hypos been mentioned to you by an HCP @Cheesecake? Or was it in the patient information leaflet?
 
My insulin requirements dropped a bit on sertraline. I just steadily dropped my basal a bit at a time but if you get a lot of hypos maybe be more proactive and then you can increase again when you are more sure about it. I had to come off it because of low sodium levels. I hope it helps you.
 
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