Your doctors advice is shocking! You MUST listen to the advice Calmer gives, she really wants what's best for everyone, she's been a godsend for me!
She's always said that she can only advise us and unfortunately not make us listen, she knows how to make the best of this nasty experience, really!
My advice is to NEVER take an A/D sporriodicly, it's just messes up our system and causes unwanted misery through withdrawals,
Get stable on your dose and then follow Calmers advice on reducing slowly
I'd let your Gp know that he should think about his advice, it hasn't helped you at all.
Take your time and you will fully heal!
Hi Toni Thanks for all the advice, the morning anxiety is becoming briefer and more manageable and I'll certainly try the vitamin C. As far as food such as turkey being beneficial, shall certainly try this but since giving up Mirt my appetite has plummeted along with my weight so although my eating is healthy quantities are small.
Considering the advice re getting off Mirt when I first tried it a year ago was to taper from 30 mg to zero over about 6-8 weeks (no wonder I failed and ended back on it) doing the same thing over four months seemed to me very acceptable under advice from a later GP. However we are where we are and all in all after 5 weeks off it, apart from the a.m. anxiety and slightly down mood some days, I seem to be coping and worth hanging on in there but I agree knowing what I know now from other peoples experiences it was still not an ideal way of doing it.
"Windows" of mental normality pop up now and again if only briefly so I'm sure I'll get there. Thanks for your interest.
Hi,
Update 3nd day jumping off 7.5 MIRT tossed and turned all night but don’t feel too bad, am at work, Brain feels, hard to explain (raw) in a way. Im in a very stressful job, I manage catastrophic network outages for the state I live in. I normally get to work with morning anxiety, but not feeling that lately , Taking magnesium, Omaga-3 and Melatonin and L-TRIP at 2 hours before bed, started taking them two weeks before trying to get off the MIRT., Am able to get some sleep, the supplements are definitely making a difference, Or could be the placebo effect, never the less it seems to be a lot better this go around. Last few times trying to get off I was a complete mess. Will post more later. Oh, last time I talked to my Doctor and told him I was trying to get off the MIRT and was having A ruff time, he said that the MIRT is none addictive and that my bran has just become accustom to it. And that it just like trying to quit coffee or any other stimulant. I am one who is very sensitive to any medication, I all the time manage to get all the side effects, been that way all my life.
dang ...
just wanted to say your job sounds extreme, maybe you need to take extra time out.
Think your doc should read up a little more; actually I took in some papers I copied and gave to my doctor and she also copies them, maybe, just maybe the next person knocking on her door won't suffer with any "discontinuation syndrome" - so yes officially we're not allowed to say Mirt is addictive, but pull it away and we fall to pieces ... so we still need it, greatly.
Hope you get some quality sleep, sweet restorative sleep.
i am coming off 7.5mg mirtazapine trying to taper and struggling getting sleep. i can take the other withdrawal symptoms but need help getting sleep. are there supplements that help? i thiught abiht 5-HTP to supplemnt the serotonin which js how infoubd this thread. taking magnesium and valerian and antihistimnes like unisom and hydroxyzine has gotten me down but it is nit ideal the dosage if antihistimes inhave ti take and side effects
be careful gabeoentin is habjt forming