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I have been taking Mirtazapine for the last 6 months after having had a bad (but short) experience with Citalopram. For the first 4 and a half months or so was on 15mg and this seemed to be helping initially with the anxiety, although didn't seem to help that much with my get up and go/motivation. Then it seemed to stop working and at doctors suggestion put it up to 30mg for about 2-3 weeks which didn't seem to help and then up again to 45mg where I've been for the last 2 and a half weeks or so. It doesn't seem to be working for me, everytime I raise the dose I get a brief 3-4 day period where things get better and then it seems to fall back down again.
It certainly helps me get to sleep but I'm not convinced it's helping my anxiety just maybe slightly sedating it. I've also started feeling very down the last few days although wonder if that could just be from the furstration of not feeling better. I'm tempted to wean myself of them. I know they take a while to work but have been on 30mg or higher for 4-5 weeks now and can't say I feel any better. I could cope with the tablets making me feel tired if I didn't have the anxiety as well.
Would be interested in hearing if anyone had a similar experience with Mirtazapine and if they did what did they do and what was the result?
Thanks in advance for any replies
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I have been battling with depression after a break up a whole five years ago. I've tried all sorts of counseling and therapies, entered several relationships (which have never helped as I've been totally unable to move on). The depression was so bad it prevented me from going into my new career change as a teacher.
I think it was early 2012 when I gave 15 mg Mirtazipine a go, I was in a hopeless state, but they worked. It was almost magic, I no longer thought of her. I stayed on them until last summer as I was feeling back to my old pre beak up self. I was in a positive new relationship and all seemed good, so I came off them. The relationship didn't last and we broke up, not much later I began to feel down and by the autumn I began to think of the ancient ex I deeply loved again. I had lost touch years ago but when I was weak and did a bad thing and googled her name, only to find out wedding plans on Pinterest. This made me pretty I'll again, so I tried CBT on the NHS but like all of the other therapies it didn't seem to help. I eventually went back to the doctor and, six weeks ago went back on 15mg.
Six weeks on and I'm still not feeling improvements, I might have to go to the GP and up the dose. I seem to remember it could have been longer than a month last time.
But what I wanted to say that this drug CAN work, last time I felt it saved my life.
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Have to admit to being a bit scared as to what's going to happen but for the last 2 days have cut down from 45mg to 37.5mg and after a week of that I'll try and go down to 30mg (slowly does it).
I hope Mirtazapine works for you again and wish you all the best but sadly for me I don't think it's worked and apart from the getting me to sleep wonder if it's actually making things worse.
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Interesting as well that they advise against tapering by missing doses as it causes too much fluctuation in the amount of the drug in your body.
I kind of wish I was tapering off from a position of feeling better as I think it would make it easier to spot problems but just feel like I've spent long enough flogging this horse and it's time to accept it's not working.
As I say currently dropped from 45mg to 37.5 and will probably stay with that for a week and see how it goes. In mind i;ve got a timetable of dropping from 45mg to 37.5 to 30 to 22.5 to 15 to 7.5 to off with a week or so at each stage. Does that sound achievable to you.
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