r/Mirtazapine_Remeron

Been on 7.5 for 2 months. My doctor told me to taper for just four days with half a pill then stop. This seems pretty fast?? Anyone have any similar experiences?

I am currently taking mirtazapine low dose (about 8.5mg) and 150 mg pregabalin.

Whenever i try to taper below 8.3mg, my symptoms come back with full venegance, my whole body is under electricity and i am in anxiety mode and my head pressure gets worse. It is torture, so i had to go back to 8.5mg after a few days multiple times.

I do microtapering and my steps are only about 0.1/0.2 mg. Stil i have so heavy withdrawl symptoms.

What else can i try? Does someone have any advice for me?

Please positive did 30 help I’m mainly using it for OCD and panic disorder i’m just nervous. I don’t know if I should go up. They say the higher you go, the more stimulating.

I got put on mirtazapine in January because I had an inflammatory episode and wasn't sleeping, nauseous with no appetite. 7.5mg to start up to 15mg, tried to cut it completely at some point in February unsuccessfully. About a month later after restarting had to go to the emergency room because my thoughts were all suicidal idealation, feeling like I was stuck in fight or flight all the time, and panic attacks, waking up after 4-6 hours with my heart racing, depersonalization and derealization, nausea and retching almost everyday, I was told I just have to tough it out and it will stop. After multiple gps did not take me off the mirtazapine or advise a taper I decided in June that I could not take it anymore, I've been off work even before tapering because my symptoms were unbearable. June 13 I started tapering 15, cut down to 11.5 for about 2 weeks and then 9.5 for about a week and now I'm a couple days on 7.5. I can feel my mind clearing, I was able to get in the car without having a panic attack and that's the first time I haven't felt absolutely flushed getting in a car. During this taper I've felt similar to the 15mg, nausea, retching, vomiting, not staying asleep, racing thoughts, I wake up and my mind will not stop filling with negative thoughts like I'll never be able to eat with friends, go back to work, keep up with household things, just all doom and gloom and feels like I'm absolutely buzzing and out of breath. I'm wondering if anyone else has had similar effects after months of 15mg and also how to manage the tapering, thanks to whoever takes the time to read this and/or respond <3

I posted a few days ago about being afraid of trying this medicine and thank you to everyone for the support! filled the bandaid and I’m on day five. my dr told me it was ok to chop the 7.5mg in half just to get over my anxiety surrounding the medicine. after I take it at night I feel amazing, I feel calm and relaxed but it doesn’t sedate me. I take it and I’m up for 2-3 hours anyway after. the next day I just feel totally off. is that normal and does it subside? I don’t know how to describe it, it’s not BAD, I just feel weird in my own body. at times dizzy and groggy, but then just this odd sense of my body just feeling like it’s not all on correctly.

thanks again for any advice! reading about positive experiences has definitely helped me build up the courage to face medicine anxiety and finally start!

Hey gang! Last time I took Benadryl I took a kid dose and it made me wired. Being how I had this reaction I’m reluctant to start Remeron especially because the main purpose of me taking it would be to sleep.

Anyone sensitive to Benadryl have this issue with Remeron? Or am I over thinking it here?

Hi everyone, after a couple of years on mirt, I feel it has done everything it can for me and I'd like to come off now that I'm mentally in a better place.

I mostly took it for sleep and never took more than 15mg. So I've started decreasing by a quarter of a tablet, so I've decreased to 11.25mg, and will do this for 2 weeks, then go to 7.5mg for 2 weeks, then 3.25mg for 2 weeks then nothing.

Does this sound like a slow enough plan? I will check with my doctor when I see him this weekend, but given I want to come off this medication as soon as possible I thought I'd give myself a head start.

And feedback from anyone who has gone through this before would be greatly appreciated ☺️

I think I lost the ability to fall asleep without mirtazipine. The only way I'll fall asleep is after 2 days of no sleep from pure exaustion. And when I do fall asleep it's only for about 30minutes to 4 hours max. I think this is day 6 without mirtazipine. I quit cold turkey 15-30 mg dose. Am I fucked ? How long will I be like this ? What can I do to help my self ? I've been on this stuff for about 5 years

I've had really bad pms for years in my early thirties. I thought I cured it by supplementing b12. Now at almost 37 I suddenly have really bad pms again. Turned out it wasn't the b12 that cured it, but around the same time I also quit Mirta that I had used for a couple of years. Now I'm back on Mirta for 6 weeks and poof, pms is back!!! What the helly! Only on 1,875mg now and 3,75mg before. Years in between nothing with no pms either.

looking to get experiences from people who like this medication and it worked out for them because i’m trying to figure out if it’ll get better for me or not.

took my first dose the other day and whilst it got me to sleep super quickly the next day was absolutely horrible, i felt so confused like i couldn’t think, incredibly depressed (more so than before starting), and had random bouts of hysterical crying.

now i know when taking a new medication you’ve got to give it time for your body to get used to it and adjust so i don’t want to write it off as something that isn’t going to work for me because i had such high hopes for this medication.

i just want to know if you are someone who is on or was on this medication and you got benefit from it, could you tell from day one? or did it initially make you worse? or just not affect you at all?

i really want to stay hopeful but that first day was miserable!

I’m travelling to Amsterdam next week and really want to smoke, but I’m worried that because I’m now on mirtazapine it might interfere? I smoked heavily daily for 4 years. I’ve been on a tolerance break for around 2 months now, and been taking mirtazapine for a month and I fking hate it, in fact I’m waiting for advice from my doctor on how to get down to 15mg safely and how to eventually ween off them completely because I’m getting terrible realistic nightmares (to the point I wake up and think they’ve happened) I can’t get out of bed for hours after waking and it has really disrupted my routine. I feel sad (hollow almost, it’s weird) without any reason and all I can put it down to is this medication.. anyway I want to get the most out of my trip away I was planning to smoke Indica, only a few puffs and see how I feel I know people react differently to others. What I’m really asking is has anyone took up smoking again after being on the medication for a similar amount of time and dose as me? And has anyone decreased from 30mg-15mg and took up smoking during that time? I am going to be honest with my doctor and ask them their opinion, but in the meantime I’d really appreciate hearing peoples experiences

I have been on 30mg of Mirtazapine for about 5 weeks now and 20mg of Buspirone. I still have up and down depression days but my sleep is great at 30mg. I am thinking of asking my doctor about adding Fluoxetine because it worked very well for me many years ago with the buspirone. Anyone doing this and at what doses? I take the Mirt at night because of the sleep benefit but I think take the Fluoxetine in the morning. Success stories are welcome :)

When I first started taking this I was able to fall asleep pretty well but I swear since I started I’m having a harder time falling asleep now? Also have some shakiness. Would love to stay on this as it’s helped my anxiety but I miss sleep and this is supposed to help not harm it! (Been on it 2 months)

Prozac was working wonders for me but I was having issues with sleep so I got put on mirtazapine about a month ago. The RLS and daytime aching has been unreal but it's helped my ARFID immensely and my anxiety too without daytime drowsiness. Will trazadone do the same but without the RLS?

I’ve taken 15mg for 2 nights. I feel completely like a zombie with unshakable grogginess. I was also prescribed 37.5mg Effexor. This is all to help with anxiety. I am already wondering if I should stop taking this med as the grogginess/fog is unlike anything I’ve experienced. It feels like a bad high. Any words of encouragement or experience?

I’m on 15mg and just found out I’m pregnant. even though research doesn’t seem to say it’s too bad for pregnancy I’d rather taper off especially since I have a history of high risk pregnancies. Any tips?

Hey gang! Thinking of starting Mirt for anxiety/depression/insomnia. I already have tachycardia and take a beta blocker for that. Afraid to start Mirt because of its effect on norepinephrine. Don’t want to start if it’s going to increase my heart rate.

Anyone experience an increase in HR and if so how pronounced was/is it? Thanks!

I was started on 15mg a year ago for sleep due to anxiety related panics around not sleeping (driven from post partum trauma), reduced to half of this around Christmas time and then a few months ago reduced to every other night but that was quite short lived. Was doing great for 6 weeks and then the rebound insomnia hit and it’s been hell. Just want to know if anyone has had the same experience and if so can give me reassurance that there’s light at the end of the tunnel. If I know I’m not going to sleep properly for 2 weeks then I can power through and make adjustments but it’s the not knowing. I have a demanding job and a lively 2 year old so I need to be rested. Thinking about reinstating at 7.5mg and coming off slower as maybe the taper at the end was too quick?

I've been on mirta 15mg for 3 months. My GP insists that I stay at 15mg. My nightmares are increasing. Especially the first part of the night. I am tempted to split the tablet in two tonight, or should I stay on 15 mg and ask my GP to increase to 30mg?

The 7.5mg has helped immensely for sleep, even lower doses like 3mg. However all of the research I’ve seen shows that Mirt is no better than placebo for sleep after about 12 weeks so I’m quite surprised it still seemed to be working. Why would this be?

Even though it still seemed to be helping me after 5 months on, I decided to stop because I didn’t want to be forever reliant on a medication and I was worried the rebound anxiety / withdrawl may be even worse later if I stay on it long term.

I’m sleeping what I would consider “ok” on most days now without the mirt, but I’m wondering if I’m doing myself a disservice by not staying on it. I didn’t really notice any negative effects. No weight gain really either since I’m naturally skinny.

Compared to anything else I’ve tried, Mirt has been a wonder drug.

Another idea I had was “saving” the mirt for the times of the year when I’m most stressed and really need sleep for around 3-6 months then cycling off about the same amount of time each year. Not sure if this is a good idea or not. (The first few days off are def BRUTAL, but it does improve)