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Is anyone on mirt and diazepam ?

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sarah24378
sarah24378

If so do you find waking up in the morning difficult ?

I am on 45mg of mirt at bedtime and 10mg of diazepam at 6 / 7 ish and find it really hard to wake up. Feel like i am coming out of a coma !!!

My nurse thinks it is the diazepam but i have been on that alone without this problem. I plan to reduce the mirt soon and am worried as it can be more sedating at lower doses and pretty zonked now. Am also on 150mg of venlaflaxine.

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  • carol84640
    carol84640 sarah24378

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    Hi I'm on diazepam and mirtazapine. I stopped talking mirtazapine quite a long time ago I didn't have any withdrawal from.but after my mum passed away and everything going wrong I lost a lot of weight.i was pressured into taking then again I didn't want to but gave in mainly to put some weight on which I have but my bust has gone big again and sore I don't really want to keep taking them.im not really sure if they help.at all with depression they don't seem to be helping me. But that's just me they.mightbe good for other people. Carol

  • carol84640
    carol84640 sarah24378

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    Hi Sarah I was taking 45mg of mirtazapine I'd been on them a long time but felt they weren't working for me anymore so just stopped. I've heard some people have withdrawal from them but fortunately I didn't. My son is on antidepressants venlfaxine now he is really ill if.he runs out starts being sick I think with antidepressants we have to be very careful some doctors will say there not addictive but I think it all depends on the individual and how we react to them

    • sarah24378
      sarah24378 carol84640

      Posted

      I agree. I was very ill with post natal depression and at one point was on 5 meds !! I am now on 3. 45 of mirt and 150 venlaflaxine and diazepam. All are known to be hard to get off. I think the venlaflaxine is the only one that helps but it is the hardest to come off. I plan to start reducing the mirt soon.....see what happens.i don t trust the docs when it comes to meds anymore.
    • carol84640
      carol84640 sarah24378

      Posted

      I don't trust them either you seem to be on a lot of meds good luck with reducing them I know it's hard I'd like to know how you get on Carol xx

    • carol84640
      carol84640

      Posted

      Sorry Sarah you asked about diazepam I was on 8 5mg a day then the doctors reduced it to only 5mg 6 a day I started to get every ill then Carol xx
    • carol84640
      carol84640 sarah24378

      Posted

      Yes it to a lot of people but ive been on them over 20yrs they are very addictive there good short term then before you know it your physically and mentally addicted .but in my circumstances they decided to leave me on them but I would advise anyone to be very careful with them if your prescribed then as with any other tablets xxxx
    • sarah24378
      sarah24378 carol84640

      Posted

      Ive been on and off.....mostly on them for over 10 yrs. Going to taper off slowely..
  • ann55375
    ann55375 sarah24378

    Posted

    I have the overwhelming feeling of tiredness in the morning, along with wishing i wasnt here some days as it just feels so bad.

    all,this has come from. mirtazapine and diazepam.  They put me on three to four years ago for depression and anxiety and i am having difficulty coming off.   I couldn't manage over 15 mirtaz, felt out  of it, so went to 7.5 and got stuck there.  In August gp said drop the mirtaz so i have got down to 3.75 but cant seem to drop further.  As for the diazepam, i need 5mg at bedtime and even then dont sleep properly.  I take up to 2mg in day just to cope.

    i desperately want off these but my mood is still low and i have had no success with other anti deps.  Dont know whether to try to taper off mirtaz then diaz or if i will end up worse again.

    at least you have venlafaxine to fall back on.

    i just dont know how i can cope now without these, but i know im not well. Theres lots of success stories on here ofmthos whomhave gone off them but i dont think drs or psychs really know what they are doing to people, and when we come to them with a problem they dont want to,know and tell you theynhave never heard of problems discontinuing.

     

    • Zara136
      Zara136 ann55375

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      Ann

      my doc and my physc both say there is no withdrawals from mirt so I asked them to be sent for tests as there was something wrong with me as you can't fell so ill for no reason, my doc got set of bloods tests done (don't know what tests they were for) but bloods came back fine... 

      doc and physc definitely believe there is no withdrawals so it's waste if time asking them for help ( that's just my opinion)

      ive been on diazepam for years only take them when I need them before I was put on mirtazapine I could of went weeks with out needing diazepam but once I was given mirtazapine I need 5mg twice a day, now I'm of mirt and withdrawals are getting easier I use 5mg diazepam at bedtime, don't need to use any during day...

      not sure if it because I'm back on my old antidepressants or if it's less withdrawls from the mirt but I will continue to use 5mg every night if I need to rather than use mirtazapine as my time on that drug was like living 16 months in hell

      i know it works for some people but I definitely wasn't one of them people...

      never euffered anixety in my my until I was put on mirtazapine 

      kaz

    • carol84640
      carol84640 Zara136

      Posted

      Hi Kaz I get sick to death of doctors telling us tablets like mirtazapine or any others aren't addictive. We know are own bodies we all react differently to tablets some people have no withdrawals and some do for them to say there isn't is a sweeping statement everyone is different.i wonder if any of these doctors have ever taken them there selves.gets me so annoyed

    • Zara136
      Zara136 carol84640

      Posted

      Hi carol

      intold my doc to take a 1 15mg of mirtazapine for around a week and see how easy he gets off it after only a week

      They never helped me at all, they caused anixety tho they did give me a full nights sleep but I never had a problem with sleep anyway

       I told doc and physc they were making me feel worse and they just upping the dose until 45mg then that when he'll hit me they took me down to 30mg that's when I All the withdrawls hit me and I found this site

      im now free of the crap close to 14 wks and back on my old antidepressants which they took me of to replace it with the newer type mirtazapine 

      so really past 2 yrs mirt has stole from my life 

      il never ever trust docs again and sure as hell will never take mirtazapine again it's the worse thing I've ever been through teen while taking it I felt ill then I was hit with every withdrawl 

      but il get there just don't know how long it will take

      one day at a time 

      kaz

    • carol84640
      carol84640 Zara136

      Posted

      Hi Kaz what an awful time you've had clearly they don't suit you but not being believed is terrible.im back on them but mainly to put weight back on ad I lost a lot.they wanted me to take 45mg again I was on that dose years ago for a long time fortunately for me I didn't have withdrawals from them even though the phsc insisted I had. After quite a few years I was pressured into taking them again for depression but I said only 15mg I've put some weight on with them.but don't want them anymore the weight is better but not depression. I just hope this time I don't get any withdrawal as our bodies change towards tablets. My son takes venlfaxine antidepressants and is physical sick if he runs out he doesn't want them but it seems his body does. One doctor said that's rubbish it's nothing to do with the tablets it's strange cos when he has them it goes and he stops being sick .yet another doctor said oh yes it's definitely the tablets. It's crazy all of it xx

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