Exhaustion and muscle pain on Mirtazapine

Hi Catherine, I guess it has been at least 7 years now, and you either went off Mirtazapine or persevered. I went on it in 2013 after the previous drug stopped working after 12 months. Although tapered off for three weeks I went into the throws of a decent bout of discontinuation syndrome that affected my balance, muscle strength, spacial awareness and sleep. When it felt like I was starting to level out of it after 5 weeks, I had 2 falls, the 2nd plunged me into a world of pain and 15 second torso spasms that lasted 2 years, and I had hypnopompic hallucinations on waking at least 3 times in the first year, plus every night from the day I took the Mirtazapine I got and still get a waking at night and the sensation of the ceiling being full of cobwebs with a pixelated spider moving around. (a kind of night terror). Along with that I experienced restless leg syndrome for 2 years as well. I was size 16 on the first drug and since 2011 my weight has ballooned to a size 28. I'm always hungry. I always have areas on every limb and part of my body that are painful, I regularly get really stiff and have muscle soreness. On the flip side, I don't cry much at all, compared to crying on the way to work, at work and on the way home before that. My mother died, and then my father, and I feel the medication really helped with those big things as well. I know when I am really upset because I get breakthrough crying. I find it hard to cope with hot weather since I've been on Mirtazapine. Yes, I had fogged brain big time before I went on it, which did improve a bit, but that is balanced out by extreme bouts of inability to fall asleep which regularly has me sleeping during the day. In general when I think I am awake, I wait another 2 hours before I go out or drive. I've given up trying to work and am hoping to get on the Disability Pension, so that the awful pressure of them expecting me to do normal things like regular normal people will be reduced. With the reduced capacity I feel very vulnerable in public so I hardly go out at all. At least 70% of these symptoms were due to Mirtazapine use.

Hi the lower the dose the better you will sleep 15 is better for sleep then cut down again. I have insomnia lower dose works better I'm taking myself off of these tablets now so going thru withdrawal. The fatigue will be better on lower doses . Exercise is key hard when fatigued but will get the toxins out and you will feel better