Experiencing black outs?

Hi Rhiasaurous if I was you because you have only been on Mirt for 3wks I would go back to your GP and tell him you would like to try something else.Ive been on 45mg for 4yrs I have just began to ween off it I'm on 30mg at the moment and it's really difficult to come off.If you read a lot of the comments on this site you'll see not many people rate it .Get off it while your in time.good Luck .

i had exactly the same problem as you and the lack of sleep was totally debilitating making me anxious all the time due to psychophysiologic insomnia( look it up!) originally I was on mirtazapine which helped but I put on 5 stone whilst on them since 2009 (1 stone a year). then after my own research I came across sertraline and trazodone which respectively helped with the anxiety and the insomnia so I changed from mirtazapine and I now have lost 2 stone in 2 months and regularly sleep for between 7-9 hours a night and feel incredible and function like a normal person I presume (I had been so long without sleep I not sure what normal was anymore!)

trazodone dose 150mg (this can safely go upto 400 mg I have read) 

sertraline 100mg

i hope all this helps cos I was in that dark place you are in for many many years and only now after my own research and demanding to be heard have I come back into the world of the day. 

I went up and down from 15 to 45 over 8 yrs then down and down for 1 month then changed to sertraline 50 mg then to 100mg. I now take these in the morning and have started on the life changing trazodone 150mg at night that get me off to sleep soon as I hit pillow and keep me asleep for 7 hours plus with 

a pit stop around 3am. I had bad ibs too but cured it with not drinking milk only almond milk  and massaging your belly after peppermint tea at least twice a day. no caffeine after midday', fish and veg diet and don't eat after 8 except maybe a piece of low fat cheese(33%) or some almonds( plain) also I take lansoprazale 45mg in morning which stops acid reflux dead. u might poo poo some of these things but if ur not prepared to try and cure urself and expect your doctor to really understand all ur problems then think again cos most of them just treat people on a generic hit and miss prognosis. honestly I thought I could never feel right again but  sertraline trazodone 

sorry it keeps chucking me off. those last two meds and lansoprazale have changed my life and peppermint tea really alleviated the really bad ibs. remember it's u in charge of your body and mind and not ur doctor. if they won't give u what u ask for then change doctors. they don't know everything. I go in with a written statement of intent of what I need and want them to prescribe and it's upto me if I make a wrong diagnosis. hope u find a way through and I right now pray for you to get a break from the pain.

regards 

greg

no worries, I have a Dan in cyber karate lol. my old friend insomnia would make me hallucinate like crazy and all the mice on my mouse organ could keep up a merry dance for my bag puss mind as long as Ithey saw me looking, not to mention also the multiple personalities that could make my hands write or draw characters that my mouth would speak of for hours even days on end! but that's insomnia for you and why it is used as a form of torture. but when it's yourself torturing urself then the blame becomes depression and aggrophobia and the whole viscous circle starts over. dark stark a dog that barks over and over only in your mind is enough to drive one crazy woof. good luck sorting urself out. bleeding posters who do they think they bloody are?