Harm Reduction Sertraline dose after week-long break?

[ChemicallyEnhanced]

Due to a combination of laziness on my part and pharmacy errors I have gone an entire week without my Sertraline script. After spending the last three days busting into tears watching commercials or even sitcoms while binge eating simple carbohydrates I decided I'd had enough and managed (via phone) to convince my doctor to issue me a same-day emergency prescription today.

However, I'm unsure how much to take?
Should I:

a) start back at 50mg and build it up again (assuming it's left my system by now?)
b) take my regular 150mg dose
c) take a one-off higher dose to get it back into my system faster

 

[T. Calderone]

You should be okay to resume your regular sertraline dosage but don't go over what you'd normally take.

 

[kleinerkiffer]

Yeah, you should be alright to take your full dose, but you could start with 100 mg the first day, just to be extra safe
Sertraline has a half life of around 24 hours so you should be back at a steady state after around 4 days

 

[ChemicallyEnhanced]

I took my usual dose and felt much better just within a couple of hours. Thanks for the replies