Mirtazipine withdrawal symptoms

Good on you. I'm trying to do the same. I was off it for a week then after the first few nights of sleeping ok I went to zero sleep for about 3 days and an odd hour here and there. Eventually I had to go back on it just to sleep. I lost a stone weight in the week I was off it. And as I said in a previous thread I wish I had never started meds as none have helped just made me worse. Hopefully after a couple of weeks you should feel ok. Get some antihistamines and see if you can get a weeks worth of zopiclone off the doc to try and restore a normal sleep pattern. I wish you luck.

I'm sorry you're going through this, and withdrawal is horrible. Withdrawal can last anywhere between 3 and 7 days from experience. I would hope your sleep would start to regulate once withdrawal has stopped. You can buy over the counter medications for sleep, pharmacists are always happy to help with any questions. Your doc can also prescribe short term medications for sleep (usually 1-2 weeks prescription). I'm in the process of coming off Mirtazapine because of weight gain (2stone in 2 months!) and joint pain. Also, Mirtazapine is much more sedating at lower doses which is why it would be hit or miss towards the end. Perhaps you could speak to your doctor with regards to withdrawal and could consider another medication? I've tried so many, I'm changing to lithium now.

You're not alone in this. Lots of people have experienced horrible withdrawal, but if you're very worried try NHS 24 or your doctor.

Also, Quetiapine is a great prescription medication that can be sedating. It's an antipsychotic but I'm prescribed it for anxiety and sleepy. It's non addictive as opposed to zopiclone and zolpidem which causes docs to be reluctant to prescribe them!

Well the nytol haven't worked lol.. Will go docs mon for sleep aid. Am sure if I could sleep the physical withdrawals wouldn't be as noticeable. Its a week tomorrow since last mirtle.

Thanks for your advice Natasha, in the future if I feel I need some help, I will put forward those recommendations. I struggle with anxiety and sleep. At the moment, I'm feeling that I want to get me feeling how I should feel without medication....

Its been a long time on the antid's and other anxiety aids. I've tried lots of different medications.

Hope you loose your weight soon (so do I!) Scary how quick it can happen. I personally thought I was just going to be big after turning 32 lol, only recently occurred to me that it could be mirtles (google) ... Will see in a few weeks after meds out of system, how the weight it.

Hope the lithium work well for you. Best wishes Rebecca

I did something similar a few months ago. I quit mirtazapine cold turkey after 12 years at 45mg. I felt brain foggy and tired and nervous about 10 days, with a few sleepless nights in there. 

One thing I'd recommend is to go easy on the vitamins because they can sometimes make the sweats and anxiety worse. For instance, if I take vitamin b complex, it sends my anxiety through the roof. It has done that since I was a kid, for some reason. I learned the hard way that when stopping meds, the only way you can tell where your symptoms are coming from is to not start any new meds or vitamins or supplements until you're through with discontinuation syndrome. Otherwise you might develop new symptoms from the new stuff and think it's the old stuff that's causing it. It gets so complicated and frustrating.

No I take a tiny bit of melatonin, no more than 1mg, maybe 4 nights a week. But every night I take 400mg of chelated magnesium and that really calms me down, soothes restlessness in the legs and helps with tossing and turning. You have to use chelated magnesium though, or magnesium glycinate, because the cheap stuff doesn't do much other than give you diarrhea, which could be extra awful when dealing with stopping mirtazapine. 

I only had a couple nights with minor night sweats—nothing compared to withdrawing from benzos. Those will go away really soon. If they don't, I would suggest getting your blood pressure checked.

One last thing. No caffiene. That makes the sweats and anxiety and sleeplessness a thousand times worse when you're coming off an AD. It also prolongs reovery. You may be be tired for a few weeks but you have to let your body be tired for a little while so it can start boosting energy on its own, but if you ingest caffiene that makes your body think you don't need the energy, so you doesn't bounce back as quickly. 

You're already on your way! Good luck! 

Hi Rebecca.

I was wondering how your weight loss has gone since stopping the meds I am also 5 foot 1 and have put on over a stone since being on 15 mg mirap it's really getting me down as I have never been this big

I have lost 11lb in just over 3 weeks. Wonderful. Got scales at work...

No withdrawal symptoms at all now. Was worth sticking it out.

Feeling so much more like the old me. Wonderful. Free. Positive. I like it.

Rebecca