ForestBoy: PSSD from Sertraline

[ForestBoy]

Hello!

 

When I started Sertraline, I developed excessive daytime sleepiness.

I could sleep 10 hours.

 

Then I stopped Sertraine and developed PSSD.

After 1 year, I noticed that I sleep even more

I could sleep 11-12 hours.

I become more and more slowly.

 

Then I reinstated Sertraline high-dose, and this made the sleepiness immediately so bad that I thought I have narcolepsy.

I could not work anymore. It was so crazy.

I was bed-ridden. I felt like I was dying alive, just sleeping.

This must be what people with chronic fatigue syndrom must feel like.

 

I was in the hospital and checked for narcolepsy with full blown diagnoses tools.

I was finally diagnosed with "idiopathic hypersomnia".

 

I tried Ritaline, Sunosi, Modafinil, Xyrem, etc.

 

Only Modafinil gave me a little bit of relief, but not much.

 

I was finally put on Wakix / Pitolisant. 

That changed everything. 

Currently I feel normal again.

 

So if anybody has the same problem, he should try Pitolisant / Wakix.