Hello,
I've just been prescribed mirtazipine by the gp after so many failed antidepressants. I'm feeling pretty deaperate & was just hoping for some idea of what to expect on them.
I'm going to pluck up the courage and take my first one tonight.
Has anyone tried this & what experiences have you had?
Thank you in advance & any thoughts would be great.
Butterfly x
hi u will find they will help you sleep, what dose have they given you? julie
Have you tried the Sun? Most Of the time depression is associated with low vitamin D, which is generated when the sunlight touches our skin.
It heals. If you never tried Do it. Ad regards mirta, I personally do not think it's effective and I hope your doctor warned you about its withdrawal symptoms that are worse than any kind Of depression. Invest in natural light!
very good point but we need more sun and depression can be other issues besides getting some sun, but true in many cases
I was always skeptical about lack of sun triggering off a "depression". Certainly it doesn't make you happy. I'm Italian from Rome and moved to Grrmany with my wife.
Goodness...Once I never saw a ray of light for three months in a raw. I felt SAD. Back to Italy to get rid Of mirtazapine, as soon as I 'm kissed by some sun I get moved and praise God. So the ultimate antidocte against depression is LOVE and sun
i agree sun does help with moods but depression can also be a underline issue that needs addressing with councilling and tools we learn to rid this illness , plus to much sun can cause wrinkley skin or skin cancer so sometimes a small dose of an AD can help .. send me some sun brrr here in uk! i do take a vit D tablet each day
Love, sun, magnesium
Do not take vitamin D after 1pm
Personally I think that L O V E makes miracles
Hello,
Thank you for replying.
I have been given 15mg. That's good to hear i could do with some sleep and something to calm me down also.
As for the sun we don't have much here and i have suffered with this illness for years along with anxiety and now i do needv the help from tablets or i will never get better so i don't think the sun would cure me right now.
Butterfly x
love does yes but many dont have this
try stay on 15mg butterfly any higher can cause you to have less motivation the next day! you will sleep well tonight :-) keep me informed
Yes me neither i have no love and no sun. Great!!!!
Butterfly! Trust me...I was born under the sun, I was always happy, I moved to Germany I saw how my mood changed. I was shock.
Stay 3 months in Italy and you will be astonished. Anyway, start supplement ing. With vitamin D and magnesium. By the way, mirtazapine depletes vitamin D...so...
Ah! In Great Britain you have the best brand as regards supplements: Viridian Nutrition.
Can i ask how you get on with it Julie. Has it helped you? x
Get real manuel how the hell can people just move abroad just like that. Your comments are not really helping my question.
hi i was on 30mg didnt help me i couldnt move next day so didnt help so im now on 50mg sertraline in the morning and 15mg of mirtz at night i sleep great brilliant for sleeping, gp may want to give u a higher dose after time please be carefull going any higher! i did come off 30mg side effects are hard coming off them but its like any other AD . yes butterfly 15mg really helps with the sertraline, you will be fine. x
Hi Butterfly,I think Manuel is probably trying to say try something else other than mirtizapine,I was on them for two months I only took 7.5mg a day,yes it did help my anxiety but I couldn't t cope with heavy it made me sleep I have a young daughter and sometimes need to get up,with these tablets if woke up in the night I couldn't t move!!! I also didn't t like the weight gain,I gained 9 pounds in two months,I never had a problem with my weight.so I decided over a two week period to come off them.first few days I felt great then bang the withdrawl symptoms came,I ached from head to toe I couldn't t think straight anxiety went through the roof,I shook all over,my chest was bad,and couldn't sleep.Eight weeks down the line my joints still ache,and for the first time last night I slep for six hours!!! All I can say is look at some of the comments on this site about withdrawl and only you can decide what to do.i wish you well with whatever you decide to do x
H Butterfly
I was on mirt for about 3 years (I can't remember quite) until recently. I am under a psychiatrist athough I was in hospital for a long time 7 years ago and so my condition was considered to be very serious.
I was on a number of meds and I am still on two - so it is difficult to say which one made the difference - my condition is complex - bipolar and depression. But in the last few years my situation has improved markedly and I have no doubt that this is no doubt due in part to mirtazapine.
Every med has its side-effects. I could tell you side-effects that I experienced but that won't help you. My onwn feeling of this is that the doctor should admit these if the patient raises these with the doctor - although not necessarily draw attention to these when first prescribing.
Having said that when I was not so long ago was to stop taking Lithium my psych gave me the datasheet of the two drugs that I might take instead to choose. But if one is really ill, in a nervous state, very anxious etc, one is not in a state of mind to be able to choose.
Good luck!
This is why we have to be informed about its side effects: I had to stop working... I felt destroyed. Then I tried to stop...very hard for the withdrawal symptoms...from the bottom of my heart: try one tonight and then stop
stop scaring the girl 15mg will help her get a good nights sleep but butterfly try not go any higher than 15mg . side effects of coming off them is hard but can be done easy if slowly tappering off 15mg. either that or manuel can send us some flight tickets so we can have some sun :-)
I agree with you Julie, but I am surprised that anyone in a professional job requiring attention to detail, or a manual job where it could be dangerous, could work on mirtazapine. I was only on 15 mg and I couldn't attend to detail in the morning, so that if I had a meeting with the bank in the morning I wouldn't take mirt in the evening.
But all this should be on the side of the tin ie regarding not driving etc if effected.