Mirtazapine mood swings?

Treatment and medication
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I am taking Mirtazapine after I was prescribed Amitriptyline by my Rheumatologist for Fibromyalgia. My GP wouldn't let me take my citalopram and amitriptyline together so he prescribed me Mirtazapine but since I have been on it (2 weeks) I have felt really angry and irritated by everyone and everything. Has anyone else experienced this? Will it die down after a while?

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Oh yes I Felt really angry and irritable too. I had to stop it after 7 weeks due to other side effects too. After being off it for 4 weeks im still feeling the anger and rage..... Im hoping it goes away

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I take both and have done for a long time with no problems ..

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I have been taking Mirtazapine 30mg for about 7 weeks now for anxiety and depression and feel incredibly anxious and irritable on waking for about two hours afterwards. Then it slowly goes off in the rest of the day. I tried reducing to 15mgs for 2 weeks and the anxiety reduced, but the depression crept back!

So I would say, hang in there, it will get better with time. I took Mirtazapine 2 years ago and it took about 3 months to feel better, and then a further 6 months after that before I could come off it (without any withdrawal symptoms whatever)

Its no miracle cure thats for sure, but it gets there in the end (I hope!)

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yes the drug made me very angry and bad tempered

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Hi, I've been taking amitriptyline for ages, but its only my 6th night on Mirtazapine 30gm,

It does seem to be helping me, I'm not quite so weepy or low

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Hi yes, Ive been on Mirtazapine for anxiety/depression about eight weeks now, and its helped a lot. But I have to say that I got

worse in the early weeks and needed diazepam to help me cope with the anxiety. I nearly gave up but Im glad now that I hung on. I started on 15mgs and then increased to 30 mgs after one

week, I found 15mgs made me sleep well but wasnt enough to shift the depression. On 30 mgs I sleep lightly but I feel less anxious.

I took it two years ago as well and came off after eight months as I was better. I didnt taper off and it was fine

I would say to anyone, give it time to work - for me I needed about 7 weeks before it worked................

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Oh yes and very irritable and bad tempered especially in the mornings!