Hi annieb
Yes after 26 days I just couldn't stand it any longer. Perhaps if I hadn't waited longer it might have kicked in, I don't know?
But I changed to amitriptyline which I had also taken whilst pregnant many years ago. It's an older generation AD but very effective. It does make you sleep very deeply though, but that was a good thing for me and I enjoyed it. It took about 6 weeks to fully kick in but it counter acted the effects of the sertraline withinin a week or two.
I wouldn't hesitate to take amitriptyline again. It does make you feel a bit groggy when you first wake up, and a bit dreamy during the day but again I quite enjoyed that having felt so dreadfully stressed and so anxious before. But I was perfectly capable of driving and doing my job etc.