hi,
i was wondering if anyone experiencing the following:
i noticed after i tapered down from 15mg of mirt to 11.25mg i felt better for a few days. i was sleeping better, my anxiety and irrational fears decreased. However, that lasted 4 days and im back to not being able to sleep, feeling anxious and not like myself. Don’t know if i should taper down some more.
ive also experienced dry mouth, night sweats, chills, agitation, restlessness, changes in appetite, unable to focus or think or remember things.
thanks for your help
when tapering down, stop when you get worse, and dont lower any further, until you feel good again.
I'm down to 7.5mg now from 15mg. You will get all these symptoms plus more with every drop. Stick with 7.5mg until the symptoms go away. It might feel like they wont but they do. I had three weeks of living hell dropping from 30mg to 15mg.
if u taper down quickly yes u get these symptoms an more. i got brain zaps. my shrink tapered me down so fast i couldnt sleep becuz them. y do u not want to on the med?
Its typical withdrawal symptoms from mirtazapine. I had all you described. Obviously if you are on medications for some reason and you stop them, previous problems might come back. I was feeling nauseas, sick, anxious, had insomnia, depressed etc. How long have you been on mirtazapine for ?
how long did you wait to taper down to 7.5mg?
i just felt like it wasn't helping with my sleep and i feel like it made my problems worse.
so did you experience moments when you felt fine when you tapered down, only to experience worse symptoms after?
also, some of these symptoms i didn't experience until getting on mirtzapine.
Like Ive asked you in other thread How long have you been on mirtazapine for ? When I first started mirtazapine side effects were awful for at least few weeks. First few days were a blurr, drowsy, sick, heart palpitations, constant nausea, tremors, chills and extreme anxiety. I was always feeling ill on it. RLS was also bad. And I was only on 15mg for 3 months. When I come off it, withdrawal was coming in waves. I felt okay and then bad again. Its totally normal. Your body is trying to cope without a drug. Did you take it for anxiety ? Sometimes stopping drug can cause all the initial symptoms to return. Did you consult your doctor about it ?
been on it for a total of 35 or so days. I was prescribed this med for sleeping issues caused by my anxiety. My intial side effects when i started this med was night sweats, dry mouth, grogginess, and gargling noises in my stomach. However, i felt over time it made my anxiety worse.
I wouldn't taper any more it needs to be done very slowly. I done it too quick and ended up with all the side effects u mentioned but the worse was insomnia. I didn't sleep for 3 weeks and didn't eat had no appetite and felt nausea. just take your time dont fo if too quick.
what does "feel good" mean? sorry if this is a silly question. the reason i ask is because i dont know what this means when tapering off. when i recently taper from 15 to 11.25, i felt good for the first 4 days--with only diarrhea as my chief complaint, but by the 5th day i felt awful. Don't know what symptoms to look for as indication to taper down because i feel like i hardly felt good on this med
I was on this drug for 18 months prior to this though, up to 60mg for a week at one point then back to 30mg and started tapering from there.
Mirtazapine gives bad withdrawal but I wouldnt expect to have such a severe ones after only 35days on it. I think you are still experiwncing side effects of mirtazapine. I dont think it even had a chance to work properly. it takes few good weeks to take full effect. But Im not a doctor.
I was taking this for months and my ankles just puffed up and legs felt like planks of wood. I started to amino and gaba for sleep. After a few weeks stopped taking medication. Depression is a rotten illness and it is all about good nutrition also a good probiotic for gut health. I could say more, but it appears nobody takes any notice of me.
William
Hi,
I was on 7.5mg. I went down to 3.75mg for two weeks. During that time I had some better moods (although my living situation improved), no panic or anxiety like I thought there might be, did have some flashes of despression/ill like feelings unknowing it might be withdrawal...Then I stopped Remeron all together... I didn't consider how long I had been taking it nor did it occur to me that I would
experience withdrawal. I was just taking a small dose for sleep. DOOH! I've have many periods of bad nausea and flu like feelings, feeling hopeless/despair, gut cramping, some dizziness, headaches, vibration and some brief shakiness/weakness in legs/arms.... intense stimulation/restlessness, some irritability, etc.....
My doctor said that going from 7.5mg to 3.75mg is typically not an issue but going from 3.75mg to a lower dose or completely off is. I should have tapered more after 3.75mg but I didn't think about it at the time... now I've been off for 5-6 days....
The bad nausea has improved but the general malaise/ill feeling is still there in the background.... Little waves of mood swings, and other oddities come and go. The anxious feelings seem lower at the moment.
I worry thing may get worse but I'm
hopeful they will not. I still have some Remeron left if things get worse and I need to go back on them.
I am taking vitamin e, cod liver oil, pharmagaba, magnesium , etc.... seems to help. pharmagaba has been really helpful to me for anxiety, stress before and after taking remeron.
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