Things have started to improve a bit (touch wood as every time I think that things go bad again!). The last two nights I have slept better and managed 7 1/2 hours on Thurs with a whole temazepam, and 8 hours last night with half a temazepam. My appetite has also improved and I am eating almost normally again. I am still absolutely shattered, but as I do many hours hard physical work every day seven days a weak and am a 53 year old woman, it is probably no wonder! I would love to be able to lie in some mornings, but it just isn't possible. I have to get up 7.30 am every day no matter how badly I sleep. But as I say, things are getting better right now.
That is great news I hope it keeps up and your body has become used to no Mirt. Might still take awhile for your body to become back to normal but great start!
Thanks, Kathy. I used to be like this before mirt, but this was just a bit worse.
You mean not being able to sleep? That's about the only good thing of Mirt letting me sleep. I sent you a couple of Private messages as well about what I have been going thru. I tired too quickly to tapered and suffered for it. Now holding at 15mg for 2 weeks.
Yes, not being able to sleep and also not having much of an appetite.
I had another reasonable night's sleep and am now eating normally so my weight has stabilized. Maybe it was just a virus?
That's good to hear, peace has returned
I think when we can eat we can sleep and vise versa.
Eat too much, drank too much and now ... ugh lol x
Yes, we have to get it just right,lol. Hope you feel more human again soon x
Glad to hear you are feeling better Evergreen.
Thanks, Staz.
I'm back tnot wanting to eat again now and losing weight even ondays I am eating quite well. Never thought I'd have this problem a few months ago when I was fed up of the mirt weight. My mum said she thinks I have been hit with a double whammy. I had worked so hard to lose weight whilst on mirt and actually reached my ideal weith of ten stone, but now I am losing the weight I would have lost anyway if I hadn't have dieted. So I am now 8 and a half stone and falling. My BMI is only 19 (I'm 5' 10) so another four pounds and I'll be underweight. It's so strange. I don't feel sick or have abdominal pain, but I have absolutely no desire to eat. So annoying and so strange. I'm booked in at the doctors next Wednesday so will ask for some blood tests. I am worried it is my kidneys getting worse.
Keep us informed how you get on. We're rooting for you to get through after all your struggles. Pixie xx
Thanks, Pixie. I am also very mentally slow as though I'm getting a migraine and very very stressed. I have an awful feeling I am going back to how I was before mirt. I really don't think it's WD. It's 3 months since I was on even 3.75mg of mirt and 6 weeks completely off, and I've been fine until 2 weeks ago.
Sorry to read of your suffering Evergreen. You seem to be having waves of one thing and then another. My friend Teresa has symptoms very similar to yours after tapering, her last tablet was 1st Jan ... you do sound similar ~ that may actually be better news than it being your kidneys ... keep a journal so you can see the picture clearly.
I am reading Dr Glenmullen atm, he says that there is only one way to test if it is WD and that is to take a tablet !! Not that I think you want to do that, even the 0.1 mg that you left at, but there it is. There is a checklist of wd symptoms, maybe have a look, i'll put the link below, if it gets removed i'll pm you.
I hope it passes quickly, you may find the symptoms are here one day gone the next, if indeed it is wd. I suppose only time will tell.
Thinking of you xx
Yep removed, i'll in box you x
You are in my thoughts Evergreen. Wishing you all the best.
Thanks, Calmer. I really was a mess before going on mirt. I was like this but worse. I honestly think it's the last of the mirt leaving my system and this is how I am, not WD as such. Mirtazapine may have a half llife of around 30 hours, but it stays in your tissues for a lot longer. I know I could take a mirt tablet and my appetite would return, and I'd feel less stressed, but that is just what mirt does. It healed me in so many ways but it was also very bad for me in so many ways. It is used for people who are not depressed but have eating disorders, or to control migraines, allergies and insomnia. I'm not going to take any more ADs.
Thanks, Staz. I don't want to put people off withdrawing from mirt. I just think that unfortunately, I am still not well. In a way you could say it's WD but only because the mirt was sheltering me and now it's not. What I am experiencing is not WD, just a removal of a drug that was helping me, like you can take an asprin for a headache, but without it you have a splitting headache.If you see what I mean.
How are you Evergreen?
This could all be part of your recovery where your brain is trying to recover some sort of equilibrium after 4 years of mirt. Some describe this effect as a wave then it subsides and then may return again for a short spell but decreasing in intensity.
Good luck.
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Thanks Staz. I felt so ill this morning I went to the GPs and they got me in to see a doctor straight away. He sent me straight for blood tests (11 of them). Said the fact that I was felling very well for several weeks after stopping the mirtazapine means that it isn't WD. My symptoms are indicative of a worstening of my kidney disease but hopefully not that. Doing wide range of tests to rule things out. I guess if othing comes up then it may be my depression returning, but it's the not eating and weakness which is what is setting me, not the other way around.
How are you doing right now?