MIRTAZAPINE 30mg STOPPED WORKING?
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Hi everyone. Ive been on mirt for 6 months. All going well until past 2 weeks. Now experiencing the dark lows, burst into tears over nothing, increased energy & weight loss. I strongly feel that meds are no longer working. Has anyone had this experience? LOST
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steverz deb44437
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He switched me to another 'ol reliable' - Elavil (amitryptaline) - I was skeptical. But I'm about two months-in now on it, and I can say, at least for me, it has already been far superior as an anti-depressant than Remeron. There is a caveat to that endorsement tho (hehehe) - I find the Elavil does nothing to help my anxiety problems, whereas Mirtazapine absolutely did help with anxiety for me as well as depression.
Good luck nailing-down a back-up med with your doctor. When the Remeron stopped working for me, it was like you described - it stopped working almost overnight. :-/
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elainec33 deb44437
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sorry you are feeling down. I am a little bit like that from cutting in half but no increased energy and certainly no weight loss. Have you had your thyroid tested lately, it could be nothing but sounds a little like an overactive thyroid.
evergreen elainec33
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elainec33 evergreen
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Free T3 5.0 pmol/L (3.1 - 6.8)
Free T4 18.18 pmol/l (12 - 22)
Thyroid stimulating hormone 3.240 mU/L (0.270 - 4.200)
Our surgery only do the basic TSH as the other tests are too expensive! Same as the parathyroid hormone test "it can go off in the van"!!!
Calmer evergreen
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elainec33 evergreen
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Sounds like your doctor might be right about the thyroxin, I wonder if that is what happened to me last year when nobody took any notice of me. I have noticed since cutting the mirt in half now that the heart racing has started at night again.
Hope you feel better soon and lay off all those pills and the alcohol.
Take care,
Elaine
evergreen elainec33
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Calmer evergreen
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Sounds like you've been thro' hell & highwater this week, I hope your houseguests behave & appreciate you !! Maybe when normality returns sleep might as well. I know I made a big effort to black out my room after the insomnia, so I have blackout blinds + blackout lined curtains, then you find light sneaks around the edges ggrrrrr .... so I prop up my yoga mat to hold them in, oh and a book against the alarm clock so I cant see the light. In Switzerland they have total black out blinds that you can have fitted, waiting for them to arrive in UK !!
I heard a story about a guy that had insomnia, later he figured that he could only sleep when the room was cold, and therefore he used to go to his parents house and sleep in the cellar, it was the only place he could sleep, it may have been on the radio this week. On this subject ... when I wake at 5 ish, I am hot, by nature this tells the body to wake up making it very difficult to go back to sleep of course, so I switch on the fan and it usually works, its air con, best thing we ever did to fit that in the bedroom. Just a thought, especially when menopausal; I had a real tough time with sleep problems during mine, so it was the obvious necessity !
I used to take Zopiclone before Mirt', I think it's ok as a last resort, but I'm not sure how restful that knock out sleep leaves you. Yes I understand how you might fear this med' after the Phhenergen, and with Z drugs lowering the heart rate. Tbh my anxiety was so bad back then in 2014 that Zopiclone only knocked me out until 2 am, then what do you do !
Best wishes, hope the sleep returns, think it will, houseguests can be lovely but a pain at the same time !
C x
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Calmer elainec33
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"white noise" effect from the air con quite soothing and it does block out some sound. The things we have to do to get a good nights rest.
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ann55375 elainec33
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can you tell me how you did it?