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Hey, this cannot be good need input, please. 6 months ago took Remeron for 6 wks, low dose. Got bunch of CNS symptom and very sick, bedridden. Nausea, cramps, gi pain, weakness, vision probs, bouncy feeling, sweats, on and on.

I got off rather quickly because of headaches, halos around lights, etc. Hoped I'd go back to normal.

Well I did not. I lying here doing nothing day after day often zero sleep. No dr. to work with-- told mirtazapine can't do this. On low amount benzo at time (for 30 years) and have tried to cut further but I don't know what the heck I'm doing or for sure what is wrong. Very isolated so posting here. My gp just quit, he is not around. Occasional psychiatrist said Remeron could not do this, take higher dose and lyrica-- get some sleep. What do I do? If take occasional Ambien feel entirely different and can function. Help!

 

I can't go on this way ;(

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Try to be more patient and let yourself come back out of this funk. According to what you just said, the mirtazapine seems to be giving you some nasty withdrawal symptoms. Some doctors don't like to hear that the drugs they regularly prescribe are causing their patients problems, but it makes sense why. It is just easier to deny it. You said you came off of it quickly. I think it is time to see a specialist. Which symptoms related to the mirtazapine are still lingering?  Hope you get better.
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Remeron is a very powerful antiemetic (anti nausea). So much so that they actually give it to people going through chemo and with surgeries. The downside is that withdrawal can cause really bad nausea and GI problems.

 

Remeron also takes a month or more to stabilize and start working properly. Its best to take it before bed because it will cause sedation and that side effect never goes away but the other ones you mentioned should go away. I had similar side effects when I started taking it and they all eventually went away. Its definitely not a day time drug but if you have nausea it works better than almost anything else out there, including Zofran and some of the other heavy duty antiemetics.

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Try to be more patient and let yourself come back out of this funk. According to what you just said, the mirtazapine seems to be giving you some nasty withdrawal symptoms. Some doctors don't like to hear that the drugs they regularly prescribe are causing their patients problems, but it makes sense why. It is just easier to deny it. You said you came off of it quickly. I think it is time to see a specialist. Which symptoms related to the mirtazapine are still lingering?  Hope you get better.

 

 

Mamoot,

 

What specialist?  Addiction dr. or psychopharmacologist or what?

 

Very bad insomnia and internal vibrating are the worst symptoms.

 

So then I have tried to taper off the klonopin had been on 30 or so years, which no longer worked, anyhow.  A dr. told me to take 20 mg valium and a lyrica at night.

 

Well, I'm not going with that and have taken my bit of klonopin (1/8 or small 1/4 of a .5 tab) and 5 valium.

 

I am NOT exact.  Need to get a scale, probably.  Last night took think a tad more and got the old Remeron feelings of headache, eyes hurting, a bit bouncy feeling.  So will benzos now do this to me, too?  Remeron has been gone for months!

 

One other thing totally odd-- with Remeron I'd take it and feel its (bad) effects instantly.  I mean moments after taking... not 20 minutes.  This sounds nuts, I know.  It could not enter bloodstream that fast.  But that is what it did, and baffles me. 

 

With the clon/valium last night felt that instantly too.  What is goin on here??

 

Anyhow, ultimately took 1/4 ambien, which I felt more trembly on so about 200 mg Lyrica... and slept.

 

But am I making this mess worse or better?

 

Thanks.

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BarbaraAve: That sounds just terrible...to get this sick of Remeron.

I took mirtazapine for a short while. To sleep and I did sleep.

Got a bad skin reaction and a flue like thing while on them so I had to stop.

I have heard now that I was very agressive while on it. Strange since I felt like a zombie. An aggressive zombie my husband say.

Felt very weak, more then before on mirtazapine. Don't know if it would have lasted since I just took it for a week and 3 days I think.

Of course the doctors say it can't be remeron that make you feel like this.

They don't want to hear that they are wrong. That every person is different. That's my experience.

 

Maybe you should go to neurologist as you mention.

You should not be suffering like that, I really feel for you.

 

 

 

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