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I have been suffering bad anxiety all day - need advice on Mitrtazapine

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Carla6666
Carla6666

For last 3 weeks or so I have been having panick attacks and have been taken diazepam from doctor to help and sleeping tablet for night time.

Although today is the worst yet !!!!

I went to doctor today and he gave me 15mg of Mirtazapine and I have to take a half b4 bed, BUT my question is will this help take away my anxiety instantly ?? I have taken 10mg of diazepam today and that's not helped me 1 bit!!!!!

I'm wondering if I take my sleeping tablet instead of these Mirtazapine will that be a quicker solution as that normally helps me rid of anxiety!

Hope someone can help who knows about Mirtazapine ???

Desperate here with shakes , sweats and heart racing and been like this all day

Thanks C xxx

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  • Carla6666
    Carla6666

    Posted

    Well thanks for both of ur help, I have just had a freshen up and took my tablet 😱 Here's hoping it works ! I feel better after uz helping me so thank u so much again for all ur help it's much appreciated .

    Will keep uz posted & hope uz r ok too 😘💝 X

    • rich98378
      rich98378 Carla6666

      Posted

      Your most welcome 😆

      Let us know how you get on tomorrow

      Sweet dreams

      Richie x

    • carolyn79
      carolyn79 Carla6666

      Posted

      Did you day he told you to take half the 15mg? Why was that and when do you take second half
  • betty93515
    betty93515 Carla6666

    Posted

    Hi:

    I'm so sorry that you are having such bad panic attacks.

    One possibility is that the diazepam is causing "rebound anxiety".  All of the benzos can cause rebound anxiety, and this caused great bouts of "rolling panic attacks" for me.  These lasted until an ER Nurse mentioned that my problem might be "rebound anxiety" and I got off them a long time later (MUST taper benzos slowly - to quit cold-turkey may be life-threatening, or at least so my GP said, and I think I've seen that online as well).  The benzos also caused lots of confusion.  Google "diazepam rebound anxiety".  Just a possibility.  Or it might be caused by the Remeron - my daytime anxiety seems to be related to my Remeron dosage - my daytime anxiety has decreased as the dosage Remeron dosage has been decreased, and it is my understanding that anxiety is one of Remeron's side-effects, per several sources.  

    Just a possibility.

    Best of luck!

  • Calmer
    Calmer Carla6666

    Posted

    Hi Charleen

    Sounds like your peaked anxiety yesterday was due to the withdrawal of the sertrline, doctor may not have realised this, so annoying to hear you're going through this when it could have been prevented by a slow wd.

    I was in a similar situation to you, taking Zopiclone, benzo's, then I took Mirt' one night and it worked for my insomnia, and therefore anxiety etc.  

    I hope you managed a good nights sleep ???  You will probably be feeling very groggy as Mirt' has a slow release sedative effect that lasts pretty much all day, so it may well be the AD that's right for you.  

    If 7.5 works for you, or if 15 mg works for you, you might want to consider staying at that dose, the lower doses are more sedating (funnily enough !!) and will help with the anx & sleep.  The higher doses are used more for depression, and if the sleep cures your anx' it could be all youu need.  Bear in mind that a slow WD is necessary from Mirt' (later of course), so staying low not to be sniffed at.  15 worked for me.

    Best wishes, hope you have a better day.

    C x

  • Carla6666
    Carla6666

    Posted

    Hi everyone, that's so much for ur nice words!

    That's me just woke up well that was some sleep and much needed.

    I appreciate the comments so much really helping me!

    Just going to have a coffee and waken up a bit well try too!!

    Xxxxxx💝💝💝

    • mari34228
      mari34228 Carla6666

      Posted

      So it did knock you out then cheesygrin. Well I'm glad you have had a good sleep. That's what I miss about it.

      Perhaps if you get on ok with it you can stay on it. The mirt definitely lifted me, and I sank again when I stopped it. I wanted to come off because I couldn't function properly during the day, and with two kids and being on my own, that wasn't very practical. However I never gave the higher dose (30mg) a chance, so I'm starting to think maybe I might give it another go.

      Anyway, stick with it if you can and let us all know how you get on. In the meantime, happy sleeping!! xxx

    • Carla6666
      Carla6666 mari34228

      Posted

      Hey. Yeah I'm now lying on sofa no energy lol back at work Tomoz will need to take it very early tonight I think xxx

      Hope u get sorted soon with ur tablets xxx

      💖💖

      I'm pure nervous about going back to work but hopefully this tablet helps me xxxxxxx

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