When do withdrawals begin.

I was taking 30mg for about 5 months and decided to halve the doseage.  I felt a bit a odd a couple of days later and a little edgy but persevered for about four weeks and then cut it down to 7.5mg for about 4 weeks.  After that and to date cutting them down to 3.75mg for the last couple of months.  I was told by my osteoporosis specialist that it was so negligible it wasnt worth taking.  I am a bit nervous cutting them out completely but it could be psychological.  Will try leaving them off tonight but I am so many other health worries that it makes me a bit panicky.

I was taking 30mg for about 5 months and decided to halve the doseage.  I felt a bit a odd a couple of days later and a little edgy but persevered for about four weeks and then cut it down to 7.5mg for about 4 weeks.  After that and to date cutting them down to 3.75mg for the last couple of months.  I was told by my osteoporosis specialist that it was so negligible it wasnt worth taking.  I am a bit nervous cutting them out completely but it could be psychological.  Will try leaving them off tonight but I am so many other health worries that it makes me a bit panicky.

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It depends what dose you are on.  Your GP should reduce it slowly but that was not my experience.  They basically wanted to reduce me to a third of the maximum dose in a little over 2 weeks!  I was still having withdrawal symptoms after the two weeks and reduced down to 22.5 rather than the 15mg that they wanted me to go down to.  After a couple of months I  am still having sleep issues (but how much of that is due to the depression as managed I don't know).  I would expect you to have withdrawal symptoms more or less straightaway but it depends how slowly you are being tapered off Mirtzapine, whether your doc has put you on anything else and the reason you are taking Mirzapine in the first place.   

I quit cold turkey 6 nights ago and was put on trazodone

Don't get anxious, Sunshine, you may be one of the lucky ones and suffer little WD systems. I stopped taking Mirt, went cold turkey, a least 4 weeks ago and I have only made considerable improvements to my health.

 

Usualy they begin around day four, although sleeping problems can occur sooner. It also depends on how slowly you taper. If you do it very gradually, WD symptoms are very minimal or don't occur at all. Also a small portion of people can stop cold turkey with very mild or zero WDs. This is rare though.

Commonly about 4 days, and sometimes at 2 weeks can creep by and then BAM, it hits you.

Did you taper slowly?  I hope it goes well for you, you may be lucky, some don't suffer, but sadly I'm not one of them, still doing a slow taper.

Wishing you well Sunshine.

I titrated off Mirtazapine over a long period, far longer than my GP recommended. I took my final dose of 4mgs 33 days ago. Withdrawels started about 10 days after my last dose when the drug half life had truly cleared my body. Last 3 weeks have been a living hell. I'm hoping entering the 5th week things will start to ease up. Severe nausea, obsessional and suicidal thoughts, hot flushes but the absolute worst is the insomnia. Some nights I get 0, some night up to 3-4 hours. This makes me throw up every morning and shake a lot. Absolute hell. This drug should be banned.