MIRTAZAPINE 30mg STOPPED WORKING?

Hi Deb

I've read of Mirt pooping out many times, but not usually after only 6 months.  There are some other pharmaceuticals that interract, stop Mirt working, some anti biotics and some foods like pomegranite, grapefruit - some are on the leaflet, Maybe choose your own search engine to read more, but drugs . com is a good place to start?  

Yes, have a thyroid check, I think we all need to do this whilst on AD's.  

Hope it helps a little and hope you soon stabilise, with a little luck could be a temporary blip, here's hoping.

Just returned from a well worth WASTED appointment with Psych.. Felt so confident that my recent probs were perhaps related to thyroid after reading posts & symptoms pretty much spot on to what I had been experiencing.. damn ol COD has told me to cease taking my 200mg dose of quetiapine... huh??  When I explained to her what I had found out through other peoples experiences & if I could have a thyroid check.. all she did was flap her hands a few times, shook her head until I almost got giddy & repeated no no no as though I had no understanding what NO meant.. now Im totally frizzled grrrrrrrrr.. Taking me off quetiapine is the last thing I wanted to hear, especially after my last hospitalisation in November where I completely lost the will to live.. OMG, I dont know how to get back into seeing the psych that 1st helped me out as he works from the hospital & not in clinics.. Frickn old sag! wished now that I had let all 4 tyres down before jumping the bus..  she can shove her advice by doing meditation.. feel more like cracking into martial arts & use her as a practice brick damn her

Very sorry to hear this and although nothing I write helps, I do know exactly how you feel.  These people have tunnel vision, everything has to be about anxiety. I had never heard of quietapine but just looked it up, sounds pretty lethal drug and 200mg a hell of a lot.  Surely, she is not going to just take you off it without doing it gradually.  I am pretty much in the same predicament and I think once I am free of the mirtazapine altogether I will most likely revert back to how I was those three months.  I've burned my bridges with the local GP surgery, they really disgust me their lack of knowledge and empathy particularly towards someone who is not a time waster and hardly ever goes to the surgery over the last couple of decades.  I have an ultrasound that says I have the possibility of Graves thyroiditis and an endocrine surgeon who says dont read too much into that at the moment, let's fill you up with vitamin D and see if this has an effect on the parathyroid and calcium levels. (He suspects a parathyroid tumour but is very cautious which is one advantage I guess)  So when I go down to London in about three weeks and say I could not manage the 50,000 IU Vit D per week, barely managing 30,000 and maybe coincidence but bone pain is much much worse, generally feel rough, ringing in the ears etc. etc. what next???  I have a mental health visitor coming on wednesday and she is very nice but like the psych team, it's not possible to have something wrong physically, it always has to be anxiety!!!!!!!!!!!  She will say it's because I have cut down the mirtazapine so I won't tell her.

Anyway, getting back to you, she cannot take you off the quietapine without tapering not unless she is bonkers herself.

Try not to get upset, I know that is not easy but many of us are in the same boat.  I'm sitting here with my feet vibrating as usual, but of course "that is anxiety"!!!

Hi last march I start mirtazapam until 2 weeks ago dose was 30 mg , my doctor increase to 45 mg so now 2 weeks on 45 mg and I'm feeling sh*t ,have fatigue , itchy,spots like blisters ,unwanted thoughts

, confused etc , don't know what to do .

Maybe u need to try something else , from last march I start 30 mg until 2weeks age increase to 45 mg , I feel weird , spots everywhere , fitigue , unwanted toghts , etc

Hi deb did you manage to sort out if your mirtazapine had stopped working....I think mine has stopped working!!!! I've got horrendous side effects really bad anxiety every day is unbearable! !