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Hi

i had been on antidepressant meds for many many years, the last one being Prozac. on 15th Feb a psychiatrist stopped 20mg of Prozac and immediately started me on 15mg Mirtazapine . Took for 20 days. During this time my dear brother died. I hit the bottle to try and cope with my loss and I stopped the Mirtazapine at the same time worried about taking alcohol with these. I didnt go back on Mirtazapine at all. I have been without meds for around 3 months and I am experiencing very unpleasant withdrawal. I stopped the Mirtazapine cold turkey. Although I was only on Mirt for 20 days would one expect such withdrawal.

Any comment or view would be so appreciated. I FEEL SO ISOLATED. THANK YOU?

dee61180

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  • david39626
    david39626 dee61180

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    I am so very sorry for your loss. It seems unlikely that your withdrawal is from Mirtazapine because you were at a low dose for such a short time, and more likely that your symptoms are from other events (the grief of your brothers death, withdrawal from Prozac, coping using alcohol consumption, etc.). It may be a good time to talk with a professional and develop a plan to heal from all of it, which may or may not include an anti-depressant. If you can make progress without prescription drugs, that would be ideal. However, sometimes those drugs are needed to pull us back up to the surface so that we can learn to swim again.

    • toria_07298
      toria_07298 david39626

      Posted

      rubbish! i had terrible withdrawal after 8 days! everyone is different!

    • nigel45109
      nigel45109 david39626

      Posted

      tend to agree with you, as you have to look at the whole picture, not the latest event in isolation. someone on an anti depressant for a period of time (for a reason), switches to a new one for a few weeks, presumably as a result of a worsening condition, then stops anti depressants all together and goes through a bad time. theres no period of recovery, to allow the person to deal with/come to terms and manage the issues, that led to them being prescribed meds in the first instance. sorry, if this sounds cold hearted. its unlikely the withdrawal is from the mirt itself.

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