Mirt WD, hard to hang on!

Hi David,

It appears you have the same withdrawl symptoms that I had coming off this medication.  I am currently 9 months free of the remeron and glad to say I'm not going back.  For the stomach issues, my doctor put me on a medication called Tecta (typically prescribed for GERD).  It did nothing for me.  The only thing that seems to help is yogurt (Greek style I prefer because it seems to have more acidiphylous and other proper bacterias to promote good stomach help).  I eat this at night before bed and usually throw some frozen fruit in for flavour. I also make a smootie in the morning similar to what another member had mentioned.  Gives good energy through the day and sets the day right.  I'll give you my ingredients I use if interested.  For sleep, that's still ongoing for me a bit, but much much improved.  I recently found out I grind / clench my teeth at night.  Dentist built me a dental splint to help with this for when I sleep at nigth....seems to be help so far.  Proper sleep hygiene seems to help, but sometimes I need a good old fashioned over the counter sleeping pill to get me through the night.  Long and short this is improving and I'm sure it will for you too.  The other thing that is probably helping is the fact that you appear to have a great support person....I don't think I could've come off this medication without the support of my wife.   I think whether it's a close friend, close family member or wife / husband / partner, that person really makes the tough days much more manageable.  Hang in there, it does get better....every 3 month period seems to get more improved.  I wish you well and don't give up....You've gotten this far.  The improved mental clarity, not having severe sinus infections, the improved energy / libido, etc are all worth coming off the medication.  BTW, for helping with the sinus infections, have your GP prescribe nasonex...it helped me alot for this.

BTW, these are all withdrawl symptoms you are having with Mirt....your symptoms seem absolutely the same as what I was going through.  What's difficult is how many GP's don't realize these are withdrawl symptoms, nore do they seem to know how to deal with them.  One other thing from my pevious post.  For the 1st 3 months coming off the medication I was having twitching / convulsion issues (also part of withdrawl) as well as restless leg syndrome problems / pains in my hip and ankle (probably weak points in my body)  My doctor prescribed gaba-pentin for this which seemed to work for helping me get my rest for the 1st 3 months of the withdrawl (strictly for my twitching issue).  It seemed to work for what it needed to do so that I could sleep without the twitching issues.  Currently, I only take the Nasonex very rarely.   I don't need the Gaba-pentin anymore but have some just in case / left over.....and the Tecta as I said did nothing. All the best to you David (and enyone else for that matter trying to come off of this difficult medication).  

Hi David,

so sorry to hear you are still in this much pain. Im on month 7 and im going in to have my gallbladder checked this Friday as they have no idea why I still have GI issues. I didn't have them before the mirt. I know what you're going through, I think as my family has been very supportive but the doctors who I've seen, seem to think im either just depressed or drug seeking. So it would be good of the medical peeps to get on board this site at some point and help the people out who are trying to take care of problems based on their advice, which was taking the mirt to begin with. I didn't go out and do street drugs and then a 30 day detox. Sometimes doing it the right way doesn't pay I guess.

Anyhow, hang in there. More good days than bad to come. Hugs! 

Hi David. I'm sorry to hear you are still suffering after all this time. I was only on mirt for 2 months and I've been off it for 9 days and the nausea and GI symptoms have been horrendous. I've lost around 6lbs in under 2 weeks. Just when you think the nausea might be improving you get hit with 10 times worse the next day. Then there's the vertigo/dizziness, terrible panic all the time and lots of other symptoms. Can I ask how long you took mirt for? I hope you are doing okay

Im currently on 30 MG of mirt. (generic). I suffer headaches numbness in my hand. Nausea. I'm so tired all the time. I have constipation. I can't concentrate. I get pains in my legs that wake me out of a sleep. When I told my doc he increased my dose as I was previously on 15 MG. The doc says this med doesn't cause any of this but it wasn't there previous to starting this med. I read that the wd can mimic the side effects. Nd depending on dose nd length of time on the med wd can be 2 wks 3 months or 6 months as everyone is different. Another thing I read is with generic the active ingredient can be plus or minus 20. In other words it can have 80-120% of the active ingredient nd they don't have to conduct studies as long as they contain the active ingredient by plus or minus 20 %. Nd who knows what the inactive ingredient is. With this med apparently when stopping it. It is so powerful u need to decrease by 1MG or less every wk or every couple of wks to not get wd. I have bipolar disorder anxiety severe insomnia so it was prescribed for several reasons. Most docs don't even know that information about the generic. It also comes in liquid form nd read that liquid is the best way to decrease as u can't decrease the dose in that manor with pill form. Once your on ne antidepressant or anxiety med your brain will no longer do what it naturally does because the med takes over nd it can take a very long time for your brain chemicals to naturally do what it use to. All of the research I've been reading is very alarming to me. I wish I never started ne med at all. As I already didn't feel well previously nd feel worse but if I don't take them. I will not sleep. I also take clonazepam .5 MG during the day nd 1.5 MG at bedtime nd 5-10mg of ambien as needed. Docs are to quick to medicate. Say the med don't cause side effects or wd for that long as they don't take them. Nd go by statistics which are bull cuz things go unreported or are dismissed that it's not from the med. I know how you feel David. My husband tries to speak for the meds nd depression nd anxiety nd insomnia as he has never suffer from psych probs or taken these meds nd gets mad if I complain or can't function. I'm sry if I wrote to much info or didn't answer your questions. But I do very much know what your going through as I've been on several different meds for 20 yrs nd docs just label us as another nut case that doesn't know what they're talking about. My heart goes out to you. Your not alone.