Hi
I've had GAD and health anxiety for many years, usually i'm able to keep it in check, but his last bout I have not. It started again in 2015 when I got a vertigo disorder and it just got horrible and them my mom was diagnosed with terminal caner and it got even worse, she passed away in July and I thought with her passing I would be a basket case, but I was on the mirtazapine for one week and I don't know if that helped but I am at peace with it, I know she is out of pain and with the Lord and whole again.
I've been on the mirt's for about 9 weeks and had a day where my feet and akles swelled and I remember seeing in the med leaflet that if you go swelling in your hands and feet to call your doc right away, so I did. He was very calm about it and said just stop the med, although during the conversation he never said I don't think its the med,but it was gone the next day, but I did'nt stop the med, I lowered the dose to 1.88mgs, from the 3.75mg I had been on for 8 weeks. The very first day I took the med I felt better, sure I had the tiredness and the weight gain, but my anxiety was so much better, my depression that I didn't know i had was lifting I was smiling again and my sleep was better. Well over the past 5 days I've taken the lower dose and the anxiety is back, stressed, worried, afraid, what if thoughts all the time, checking pulse, blood pressure, swelling, all the time. Now my aches are back today, neck pain, tight shuolders from the stress, woke up this morning anxious and dizziness is back. I thought maybe just part of lowering the dose, now I'm wondering that 9 weeks is not long enough to calm the body and help. I have never taken these meds before, so I don't know what to expect or how long to take. But the psychiatrist said to continue on the 1.88mg if its woring, well on friday i felt ok when I saw im but over the weekend and today symptoms are with me. I don't know waht to do, all I know is if I was better wouldn't my body know it, would I be having stress and anxiety about my health just like before? Can someone help, thanks
I am trying to go from 3.75 to 1.87 and it is difficult. It has affected my sleep,and i dont feel so well in the daytime. Dr reassures me it will pass but i feel worse. She gave me diazepam for anxiety. Time seems to be the great factor. I tried to put dose up but felt worse so be careful.
Changing your dosage causes your body to go thru some really weird changes. I am not too familiar with these changes as I have just started taking medication myself but have read a lot of others stories on here and this is what I have learned.
Stick with it and if it doesn't get any better contact your dr and maybe they will change you meds.
Take care and best of luck
Hi Ann
If you don't mind I'd like to ask you a couple of questions. He said that you were trying to go down to the 1.87 also and having a difficult time, may I ask what does it been on and how long before he starts drop your dosing? How long of you been trying to get down to the 1.87? What kind of symptoms are you having? When you went back up on the dose what does did you go back up to and how did it make you feel worse? Thanks for your help
I had been on 7.5 as higher doses made me feel very out of it, tried several times. Been three weeks on 3.75 and dont feel well enough yet to drop again. Sleep is a major problem, it was ok at 7.5. Symptoms are depression, anxiety, insomnia, socialising out of question.
thinking of going back up but people say try to stick it out.
how are your symptoms - better or worse?
I was on the 3.75 for about 8 weeks, initially I was sleepy after taking the pill at night, slept good and for about an hour in the morning felt tired, then it would get better, my anxiety level went down pretty good it stopped my ruminating thoughts about my health, I didn't think I had depression, but starting the med my mood was better. The side effects I had were weight gain and tiredness in the morning. Other than the swelling I had that made me think it was the meds that when my psychiatrist said just stop the med cause I was panicking, but even at such a low dose I didn't want to go thru withdrawl so I took the 1.88mg. Then I went down to the 1.88 6 days ago, the first 2 days I felt fine the 3rd day nausea and just a blah feeling, but it got better in the afternoon, 4th day woke with some morning anxiety, blah all day, no motivation, ruminating thoughts all day, 5th day yesterday, woke up with the morning anxiety like I used to have the reason I went on the med and ruminating thoughts all day, today no anxiety upon waking and feel ok.
How long where you on the 7.5mg? When you where on the 7.5 did it help the reason you started on it? When you say you have been on the 3.75mg and don't feel well enough to drop again, what does that mean?
I've never been on these types of meds so I'm not very good at what is what yet. I don't know if being on it for 2 months is enough time for any changes, I do know when I lowered the dose all those old fears and anxiety came back, so I don't now if I should go back to the dose I started with and stay on it for awhile then try to low and get off the meds, its all so confusing.
Hi, i am not a health worker but i do know a little about these meds. I know exactly what you mean when you say you felt the nausea and the blah and anxiety feeling. From my research these should go away in time. Each day we just dont know what will be thrown at us. I had tried the 15, 22.5 and 30 but felt like a zombie with anxiety, certainly not better so dropped down to 7.5 when psych tried to introduce new meds . Not successful so at this level for a few months. Now dropped to half that i am having the same feelings of nausea insomnia anxiety etc. So no changes T moment.
Hi patty you were on a very low dose for 2 months l would think if do get withdrawal they should be mild and shouldn't last long.Sometimes people have just a recurrence of their ànxiety when they come off the drug so it is a case of either trying another medication.Also get therapy as it helps better than medication on it's own.