mirtaipine

Treatment and medication
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please help

i have been though ■■■■ sence feb

i started to take venlaxine as i was very down and having lots of stress at work after about 10 days i went to see my dr in a bad way i havent slept for days and feeling like a zombie so my gp added on mirt in days i sat in the chair just smoking and staring into space i was signed off work for a month my gp said it was anitxiy and depression he said he was going to get me to see a phristit i got a appointment for the 30 of may by this time i was very ill and really worried about work so i rang he put me on to criapraim with made me to adduatated so my gp added valium to help but it didnt in the end things just got so bad i wanted it all to end and just didnt want to be here anymore i got to see the phriacatric and he said he was stress related depression and has took me off all the drug and just put me on 15mg of mirtazipne and signed me off work for 2 months

i am at my wits end i cant go out as i feel so ill in my self dizzy feeling spaced out like theres a fog over me i feel like my head i buzzing and i feel so much hate and anger in me i dont to see any friends dont want to go to work but as the same time pissed off as i worked to hard to get where i was feel like a man of 37 cant even go to the shops is so silly i feel like my legs are always cold and just sort of feel like i am not really here is this what they call a nervoc breakdown of it just bad depression

any feedback of anyone who been though this ■■■■ would be a real help

sorry about my crap spelling

stefen x

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[quote:593452cd2a=\"stefen\"]please help

i have been though hell sence feb

i started to take venlaxine as i was very down and having lots of stress at work after about 10 days i went to see my dr in a bad way i havent slept for days and feeling like a zombie so my gp added on mirt in days i sat in the chair just smoking and staring into space i was signed off work for a month my gp said it was anitxiy and depression he said he was going to get me to see a phristit i got a appointment for the 30 of may by this time i was very ill and really worried about work so i rang he put me on to criapraim with made me to adduatated so my gp added valium to help but it didnt in the end things just got so bad i wanted it all to end and just didnt want to be here anymore i got to see the phriacatric and he said he was stress related depression and has took me off all the drug and just put me on 15mg of mirtazipne and signed me off work for 2 months

i am at my wits end i cant go out as i feel so ill in my self dizzy feeling spaced out like theres a fog over me i feel like my head i buzzing and i feel so much hate and anger in me i dont to see any friends dont want to go to work but as the same time pissed off as i worked to hard to get where i was feel like a man of 37 cant even go to the shops is so silly i feel like my legs are always cold and just sort of feel like i am not really here is this what they call a nervoc breakdown of it just bad depression

any feedback of anyone who been though this shit would be a real help

sorry about my crap spelling

stefen x

Hi! Sorry to hear you have not been well! I have sort of been through the same for the past 6 months!! It started with panic attacks and anxiety and went to the doctor who gave me citolapram (i think thats how you spell it), and had the worsed week of my life and then on the mirtazapine!! I have had some really bad anixety and strange thoughts, moods and depression on this drug and like you have sometimes thought i was in for a nervous breakdown!! Sometimes the drug will really mess with you until your body gets used to it. I do have good days but feel so strange and slow and my memory is shot (wasn't that good before)!! I think you need to give yourself time to heal and time for the mirtazapine to start working. Try to stay positive and take every day as it comes. Don't try and fight the anxiety and depression - just try and sort of ride with it - you will start to get better days, it just takes time.

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Hi Stefan, its Colette, We have been in touch before, not heard from you for a while, Sorry to hear you are not getting any better, if you have bad thoughts you know the ones I mean, get someone to take you to a&e and ask to see the duty pyshiatrist, or ask for a referal back to the psych and tell them you are feeling no better and are feeling you are on the edge of a nervous breakdown and suicidal.

At the end of the day its people like you who pay taxes that keep them in a job, and you deserve to be treated properly.

I have been on holiday for 2 weeks, only an hour away in our tourering caravan, but I am a different person when Im away, so much so that I dont want to come home. I cut all my meds down while I was away but bang as soon as I was back all the anxiety depression returned, its a long story but I am now back on all my meds only higher doses.

My gp says its the mental health hospital to monitor my meds the mental health team says its my gp. ITs like who the hell is monitoring me and at the end of the day no one is, I take each day as it comes and take whatever they prescribe, SO dont sit back if your feeling worse go and see some one please, you dont have to live like you are, I know all these meds take time to work and I think thats the worst part.

I cannot imagine the stress you must of been under as a chef, the tv programmes give some idea, but I dont think I could cope with that.

I cannot even do any house work at the moment and I just look at the dust ,I could and have wrote my name in it, I dont care like it or do it yourself, my hubby polished the tv last week so he could watch the football LOL. Sorry to ramble on, but PLEASE look after yourself and hope to hear from you soon.

Take Care Sweetheart

Colette xxx

p.s Is there any chance you could go stay with your mum for a while, they say a change is as good as a rest!!!!!!!!!!!

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hi collette

sorry i not been in touch yeah been real tough and i think this must be what they call a nervour breakdown i cant think clear like there is this fog over me all the time just feel brain dead i cant leave the house i go out and nothing seem real like a am walking round in a dream it very scary

i see dr housemaster the other friday it said it was depression and he put me back on to the mirtazipne to rest i was on 15mg now he up it to 30 mg now into week 2 now so maybe then they kick in i may feel more with it

i feel really bad i not been to work for 3 months and thing have got worst no better i dont know now much longer work will put up with it but i just need to get it into my head i am not well and just need to recover if the job go there be others just wish something would go right for a change i even feel scared now to go to sleep as feel as soon as i rest bad thoughs come in my head and make me panic i am so bored to which dont seem to be helping but at the same time i dont feel like doing anything i dont want to see no friends but feel pissed off as people dont seem to worry now i am feeling i think i am just mega mixed up at the moment and somehow i just got to go though this thing must get better i cant carry on feeling like this and i will sonehow get over this

anyway i just seeing somthing this is all about me i am feeling so srry for my self

anyway weel done for going on holiday u did well and hope u had a good time

be great to ring u sometime if u felt like it

take care

stefen xxxxxxxx