New to this group and mirtazapine.
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Hello,
I've just been prescribed mirtazipine by the gp after so many failed antidepressants. I'm feeling pretty deaperate & was just hoping for some idea of what to expect on them.
I'm going to pluck up the courage and take my first one tonight.
Has anyone tried this & what experiences have you had?
Thank you in advance & any thoughts would be great.
Butterfly x
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It heals. If you never tried Do it. Ad regards mirta, I personally do not think it's effective and I hope your doctor warned you about its withdrawal symptoms that are worse than any kind Of depression. Invest in natural light!
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Goodness...Once I never saw a ray of light for three months in a raw. I felt SAD. Back to Italy to get rid Of mirtazapine, as soon as I 'm kissed by some sun I get moved and praise God. So the ultimate antidocte against depression is LOVE and sun
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Do not take vitamin D after 1pm
Personally I think that L O V E makes miracles
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Thank you for replying.
I have been given 15mg. That's good to hear i could do with some sleep and something to calm me down also.
As for the sun we don't have much here and i have suffered with this illness for years along with anxiety and now i do needv the help from tablets or i will never get better so i don't think the sun would cure me right now.
Butterfly x
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Stay 3 months in Italy and you will be astonished. Anyway, start supplement ing. With vitamin D and magnesium. By the way, mirtazapine depletes vitamin D...so...
Ah! In Great Britain you have the best brand as regards supplements: Viridian Nutrition.
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But all this should be on the side of the tin ie regarding not driving etc if effected.
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I particularly noticed this when I was going to my choir in the morning. I couldn't read the music properly.
It was even worse when I was on quetiapine which makes one (me) feel like a zombie. My stupid GP had me taking me in the morning and evening.
Quetiapine was to replace Lithium which was poisoning my kidneys. It turneed out that Lithium probably made me shake.
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If I said something to my GP about my medication he would say that that was what my psychiatrist had ordered. I told him to write it in my notes - mistakenly believing that this got through to my psych.
I don't have a care coordinator and my GP should take that role. Fortunately I have a good relationship with my psychiatrist - I have his email address and it was through that that I was able to communicate through this means about my urination problem. It should have been my GP who was taking a view on this - my word for his attitude was "complacent".
When I went for the first meeting with my new GP he asked me whether I had a psychitrist - he wouldn't have had my notes. He also noted that I was taking 2 tablets of Lamotrigine (2x50mg) and he imediately changed that to a single 100mg tablet. He didn't ask my psychiatrist.