As you know I've had to come off mirtazapine quite quickly as was causing more anxiety and panic attacks
I am pleased to say that I'm 5 and a half weeks free of this med. I didn't manage to do it completely alone. Doc gave me some olanzapine to take to help level out the withdrawal. I was all over the place. And also put me on sleeping tabs just a low dose until I ride these affects out.
My question is. Has anyone else come completely off and then didn't get any bad withdrawals until over a month after. I've seen someone post on here about protracted withdrawals and wondered if this should be the case for me. Also. How long until I can expect to feel back to normal. The nausea atm is crippling as is the morning depression/anxiety. I'm allowed benzo's but I don't like the effects I've had enough of being a zombie. Also some days I wake up feeling better thinking I'm on the way up to be hit the very next day with crippling anxiety.
I don't personally believe that you can have no WDs and then suddenly get them after over a month off mirtazapine. It appeared that it had happened to me and some on here said it was delayed WD. As it turned out, it was hyperthyroidism and the mirt had just been covering it up. The symptoms were identical.
In your case, you also have the complication of the benzos you have been taking. You could be getting WDs from those. I don't believe it is WD from the mirt. Obviously, if you stop any AD before you are properly well, then your depression symptoms can return. That, IMO is more likely than being fine for 5 weeks and then suddenly getting WD. Whilst you can have protracted WD, the symptoms usually start within a few days. It could be that you were having symptoms but they were being covered up by the other meds you were given. This too is a more likely explanation than WD being delayed for over a month. I hope things get better for you soon.
I too am tapering off mirtazapine. 15mg at the min at night and going to go to 7.5 from next week. I have developed massive anxiety from it and had to double my clonazepam from .5mg to 1mg just to be able to leave the house. It's been incredibly bad stomach wise and I get where you are coming from. I know from a friends experience she took olanzapine for withdrawal from another med and it made her much worse. Her anxiety increased and she could barely function. So there could be that.
I'm also off mirt been about a month now still feeling nausea and headaches my Dr says it's out of my system so maybe this is the last of it which could be for you too 😊 hang in there Susannah wishing you well
Nausea is the worst symptom ugh, along with anxiety of course ! ... just talking about that on another forum Suzannah.
For nausea: Zofran (Trade name) typically used for drug wd, also known as Ondansetron. Helps with not only nausea but anxiety and sleep. Might want to google and look into it. Need to check with your doctor to get this, make sure you can take it alongside the other meds you have there.
Credit to Rose, who used to be on this forum
It's not an AD and not habit forming.
Your good day/bad day scenario that you describe, (bless you) yes Mirt discontinuation can cause that, we call it windows and waves, coming in and out, yuk!
I went off the last shred of mirtazapine I was still taking only very recently, so I haven't the perspective needed to know what the long-term effects will be. However, mirt withdrawal was handled pretty casually by my various doctors (from 45 to 30 mg and then from 30 to 15 mg. in a couple months), with no apparent ill effects until I went to 7.5 mg. on my own and then--whoa, Nelly--began after a couple of weeks to have intermittent crushing chest pressure sensations that would last for hours and that baffled both my Primary Care doc and my psychiatrist. Several days after I stopped the by-then 3.75 mg. doses of the mirt, those chest sensations also stopped. Both I and the people that know me well are increasingly disappointed in a medical profession that in prescribing such pills unlooses a hydra-headed monster the consequences of which they know little or nothing about.
Thanks for getting back to me. I agree I think the olanzapine has cushioned the withdrawal so that's why I'm feeling the effects weeks later.
I am now 8 weeks free of mirt but I'm bed bound with crippling achey body! Been like it for 3days living off pain killers. Will they eventually subside like the other symptoms?
I'm really hoping this isn't the case and anxiety seems a little better now. I just ache. Have a pdoc app next Tues so will let you know what he says. God I hope no more meds. My tummy still hasn't recovered.
Its true they've never taken these meds so wouldn't have a clue what we're going through.
well done to you!
Mirtazapine gave me terrible physical anxiety especially at the highest doses. Doc said couldn't possibly be the meds and left me on them a further 3years.
Wow its been rough ha. So much so I felt I was cracking up. Spent the last week on the couch or in bed. Hopefully this will pass soon. Hope you are doing well
How did you sleep? Are you itchy? I took mirt 6 months for depression and anxiety. from 7.5 mg stopped 9 days ago. Since I started mirt I have had burning chest sensation. It's a rollar coaster ride. Hope u r well.
I don't sleep. The first couple of days were ok a little later than usual. Since then not a wink of sleep. My arm all broke out in hives too. So will see what happens and will this stop soon
Poor you I've heard about the hives but have seemed to escape that one. But I'm right with you on the poor sleep and being house bound. I also have terrible sweats stomach issues nausea and if I do sleep I wake stupidly early. And headaches feel like my heads full of cotton wool. Also have some tearful moments but that's not too bad.
Same for you hope it all stops soon.. yeah with you on the sweats too . The hives were weird like one whole arm came out in hives and that was it. If it wasnt so itchy at the time it was almost comical. No harm in the teary moments they help sometimes.
