Help i am bedridden with a long term neurological condition. I have become extremely depressed
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I have been having bad anxiety attacks . After four years of amitriptyline i got worse. My g. p. prescribed mirtazapine, stopped the ami cold turkey. Its been 4 weeks now but i am having really bad vibrating and pins and needles all in my face and body. I also feel very depressed. I have been bedridden with my illness for many years and always coped . Now i cant be bothered with anyone or anything , i feel all i have to look forwards to is this illness. Please can anyone advise me about the mirtazapine. I have tried many anti ds but could not tolerate ssri ones at all.
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lisa80076 carole66603
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gillian20097 carole66603
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I'm having better days where I can cope and bad days but haven't had no days of yet where I feel great or back to normal.
My doc said it will take 6 weeks upwards so I guess I'm going to have to take his word for it.
I so understand where you ladies are coming from. It feels like this is never going to end.
Xx
s79667 carole66603
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steve1951 carole66603
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@s79667 I also have a problem with motivation. I pay my bills late and keep telling myself things I have to do but my mind is like a brick wall sometimes. One thing that helps is forcing myself to go for a walk when my mind will listen. I asked my Dr. if there’s something for motivation, but there isn’t. Besides getting sleep, one effect I like is dreaming. With the 2 anti-seizure meds I take, I didn’t know of any dreams for 6 years prior to taking Mirt. Not all my dreams are good, but at least I dream now.
As an ironic side note, I also take Zolpidem (Ambien) when I think I need it. I take 45 mg Mirt. about an hour before going to bed. I watched an intense move last week and my mind was too wound up to sleep, so I thought I better take the Zol. before going to bed. But 5 min. later, I realized I had accidently taken another 45 mg of Mirt. and wondered if I was going to wake up the next day. I got 8 hours of sleep but was pretty groggy.
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michele_20247 carole66603
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Sounds to me like a combination of withdrawl symptoms. If they should last longer than a month you may have to visit your Dr. May have some neuropathy involved here. I had the same thing coming off statins and HBP meds.
Good luck to you....I know this isn't much help, but it does get better.
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calissa carole66603
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daz101 carole66603
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Sorry to hear of your latest developments
I was on mirt roughly for 2 month
It was the worst 2 month of my life
It gave me symptoms similar to that of fibromyalgia , every bone / joint in my
Body ached I was so lethargic a snail
Could have walked faster , it was like being
In a balloon paying no attention to nothing
I was crying aswell I had an overwhelming sense of guilt fr no reason
It was so damaging I quit cold turkey
I was better before I went on it lol
I'm now on flux and doing so much better
Although it's early doors