Sporadic 7.5 mg w no problems until now, how to quit!?

Treatment and medication
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When dealing with benzo withdrawal 8 months back, it was such ■■■■ that I tried a few diff meds to help me sleep. Allergy pills, even some antidepressants are used in low doses for insomnia. One of the only ones I found I could tolerate was Mirtazapine. It worked really well and I didn’t notice any side effects. So I took it off / on, for a couple months – always only 7.5 mg., half of a 15 mg solubale pill. Well that off / on has actually been like 8 months now, but I never noticed a problem not sleeping when I didn’t have it. I only took it when I felt I needed extra sleep & would go long stretches not taking it. Definitely wasn’t taking it every day! Which is why I’m surprised here.

3 nights ago was when I first noticed difficulty getting to sleep without it. Anxiety, Heart racing, body buzz / nervous system agitated feeling. But I eventually did get to sleep. So 2 nights ago I decided to take it again and sleep well since the night before wasn’t good. Worked fine. Now last night is where all ■■■■ broke loose. Decided I’m not gonna take it again, and the anxiety and body buzz came again. But this time it was the most intense I’ve ever felt w any of these nasty drug side effects. I felt like I was going to have a seizure, for endless hours!!! Nervous system writhing and racing like you’re possessed w electricity. AWFUL!!!

I tried my best to ride it out but it got scary and super uncomfortable. After doing a lot of reading on it, I decided the people who tapered off slowly had a much better time and that I couldn’t just quit cold turkey. So I took the devil pill again. But! This time? Didn’t cut it. Still ■■■■. Didn’t fix it. I ended up getting a total of 2 hours sleep from 5am - 7am, before getting woken up into a pure panic again!! I can’t calm down. I can’t sit down. I can’t do anything but pace. Constantly. Whenever I sit or lie down I get the massive body buzz / nervous system freaking out thing. It’s the most uncomfortable feeling I’ve ever felt!!! Its the most intense in the morning.

Why didnt the 7.5 mg stop the madness? Did i take it too late? (3:30am) Do i need to go up in dose now before going down? How many days will this feeling last? how can i get off these evil pills???

PLEASE HELP!! thank you!

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Sorry to hear you’re suffering my advice is to continue to take the same dose same time every night until your system settles down do not increase your dose because the higher dose is less sedating, I you find you’re doing OK then stay on them for a while and if you do decide you want to quit you HAVE to do it slowly however, I’ve heard a lot of folks do just fine on 7.5 the only reason I stopped was because I went up 2 stone in weight and was sleeping too much! Best of luck!

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Hi and thanks for the reply here. The anxiety, panic, restlessness and tweaked out nervous system feelings have mostly subsided in the afternoon. I have been reading this is common w Mirtazapine withdrawals. Luckily my appetite came back as well, just finally ate some food.

I don’t want to be on this or any drug long term or even daily. So I guess i will see how my body does with the consistent 7.5mg… and then taper down SLOWLY once i stabilize.

I thought benzo withdrawals were hell! These were much MUCH worse than anything else I’ve experienced.

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Did you notice that drugs/alcohol or even coffee are much more addicting now and the withdrawals are worse than a couple years ago?