Mirtazapine?

[Astrid_Shadow]

I've been on mirtazapine for a while now and all its really done is made me drowsy. Does anyone else know the short and long term affects of being on mirtazapine? I feel like its not doing anything for me anymore.

 

[turtlemoon]

To be fair here, I tend to not do well on antidepressant type meds.

But for me... this stuff was awful. I took one in the evening, slept almost 2 solid days, and then blacked out while walking down a flight of stairs the same evening I woke up. I stopped taking it.

This is probably not super helpful, but my only experience. I would talk to your doctor about it though.

 

[CoffeeCat]

I was on Mirtazapine for a year and a bit. It was prescribed to me as a sleep medication as I was only averaging 3 hours a night. Very effective as a sleep pill and worked as an anti anxiety but I would never be able to take it during the day or it would put me out. Maybe talk to your DR about when to take it? Sorry this isn't very helpful.

I know when I came off it a few months ago, it should be done slowly. I did it cold turkey and it was a disaster.

Good luck!

 

[Astrid_Shadow]

I've been on it for a long time and all it does is help me sleep. I also found out the hard way that the drugs stay in my system for at least 10 hours so if I don't go to bed early enough I will pass out in the daytime. If I notice its too late for me to take my mirtazapine I wont take it.

 

[NewBeginnings]

I resisted taking anything for a long time. But then I too took it for a year. Initially I had been down to sleeping 1.5 hours a night and it definitely helped me sleep. It did knock me out but I woke more rested in the am. I was gaining too much weight and needed to stop. As for that - I read the horror stories of coming off it but I was prescribed another anti-d so I didn't have much of an issue discontinuing it. That said - at some point I would expect to stop my current med and that may be a different story. It seems no one is very eager for me to stop except me because I don't like the idea of being relying on something. Good Luck!

 

[Hyposphere6234]

I was on Mirtazapine and Quetiapine for a good two years until I made a decision to come off them a few weeks ago. I'm always susceptible to side effects when it comes to drugs and I was hit with a train load of them throughout. If anything they always set me close to the edge and when I went over it was like I had dive bombed ten times harder than without them.

 

[Taddy]

I got prescribed it two years ago, all it does is help me sleep, they described it as a mood stabilizer, and it has stabized my mood to be endlesly awful, pretty sure it has major weight gain. I'm being sardonic but i think i would probably be worse without it. Plus it has low toxicity which is good for people who might be tempted to take too much. I would say mostly for regulating a healthy sleep cycle it is excelent, I'm on the 45 mg. hope you find it helpful!
x

 

[Sunshineturtle]

To be fair here, I tend to not do well on antidepressant type meds.

But for me... this stuff was a...

You should go to your Dr and let them know.. they usually start low and work up to higher doses as needed...