im of mirtazapine 13wks today over last few wks I have had some good days a few bad ones also but last few days ive this awful ringing sound in my head anyone else get this ??
also anixety is pretty high again
kaz
Yep, it's a positive really, shows your receptors are healing !! Yayyy
Hi Calmer
so glad to hear this as I was starting to think I did definitely lost the plot, id a good few wks just with a few dips in the road but nothing that out of the scale, but then I started getting this sound in my head mostly when I was just about to sleep like zap sound but went right through my head.. (really strange sound and feeling ) now the ringing in my ears started ...
my anixety isn't definitely as bad as what it was but it's still hanging about guess it all just takes time
Thank you very much for your reply
kaz
Tinnitus is a discontinuation symptom x
My head feels full ? This noise is awful ..
just hope it takes itself off soon..
Them zaps in my head are so annoying also ,in dunno if theyr actually zaps are just big loud noises but only happen when I'm in bed lying down??
kaz
I get the zaps Kaz. Use to wake me up early hours of the morning. Thought something was breaking in my head!
Graeme
i don't know what this is it seems to only happen before I fall asleep?? But it's bloody awful now this ringing is my ears...
that mirt has a lot to answer for
hope your feeling a little better ?
kaz
I use to get it coming from the front of my head, usually at bed time.
Then I started to get them coming from the back of my head at early hours of the morning. Coincided with me not sleeping well at the time.
But then everything is so much more noticeable when you go to sleep in the dark and quiet!
Still quiet fatigued with a good mixture of anxiety added on for an extra bit of fun! Weird combination. Never felt so slow mentally but then weird at the same time. Just don't what to do with myself half the time!
Waiting game I guess...
It's crazy as you say it's a waiting game for us just wish the wks would go in little faster tho I'm not feeling as bad today as I done past 2 days..
goodknows only knows what the noise is in my brain probably the remainders of my brain getting fried 😱😮😲
That meant to say goodness only know.. il stopping writing on here as no matter what I type pops up different words
Hi Graeme
Are you tapering/off Mirt?
Yes those sudden "brain zaps" in the middle of the night ... best description I even heard was "like a freight train entering my bedroom" ! Suddenly comes & then gone in a flash, frightening when it first happens though.
Hi Calmer,
Yeah been off Mirtz now for 4mths. Still experiencing a lot of the withdrawal symptoms. Anxiety/depression/lack of energy/intolerance to noise, amongst others!
Just hoping that the end of this is near 🤞🏻
Graeme
Kaz, keep writing. You are a vital source to everyone!
Aw so nice of you Gretel
it just annoys me I sit and type big letter out and before I know it's gone ?? Only happens when I'm in this site don't know why ??
il keep in touch with you through mailing you
hopefully we will get to the end of this mirt crap journey
kaz
Hi kaz
i get tinnitus (never had it before in my life) during tapering,sometimes hours or days,or few weeks then goes,mine is oddly only in my left ear? Weird,and mine sounds like a whirling washing machine drum going round,others describe it has ringing,so seems common.
hope calmers response below is right,and we're both healing yay,
Can I ask what dose you were originally on? And did you taper?and what rate?
Brain zaps are a sign that your neurotransmitters are trying to normalise, but they can also be a side effect of going on a new med, brain zaps feel like constant electric shocks one after the other, you'll know if you have one as it really hurts, I stopped having them a few weeks ago x
I was on 45mg Chrisy.
Came off via instructions from GP. He had me drop to 30mg for about a month then down to 15mg for about a week, then stop. Way too fast for the length of time I was on it. But only found that out weeks after unfortunately.
It's definitely not zaps I'm getting then as this doesn't hurt, it just like something going through my head,it's gone in a second then another one comes along this goes on to I fall asleep and only happenes when I'm ready to sleep... it's probably another gift from mirtazapine withdrawls...
im now heading into week 14 free of mirtazapine so I'm hoping nit much longer until the crap withdrawls go..
but as you all know they can go on and on for so long...
i am on different antidepressants so maybe that's where the noise in my head is coming from but I'd been on this antidepressants for yrs before they switched me to mirtazapine and didn't have the noise..
well im saying nothing to doc about the noise in my head as I couldn't live through another change if antidepressants and these ones I'm on now seem to been the only knows that help me and I don't get side effects from them( or mayb the noise is a side effect )
dont know but il stick the noise in my head rather than live a life feeling like was when taking mirtazapine
hope you all are feeling little better today 😁
Im feeling lifeless and anixety still hanging about 🙁
But onwards we go in hope that we are on the last bend of our hateful journey...
kaz x
I hope so Kaz, like I said yesterday I felt really good and today feel like I'm at square one again, I'm that dizzy and nauseous I can hardly move x