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Side effects after being off mirtazapine for about a month?

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lit53944
lit53944

I no longer need it to sleep anymore and my depression has got considerably  better after quitting but for some reason I am sleeping more heavily than I ever have in my entire life.. I am now using nothing to help me sleep and I can barely open my eyes in the morning and I hallucinate severely at night (I have for a long long tiime, but it's worse now and far more disturbing)..

Is this a side effect of quitting mirtazapine?? I can't tell if I'm ill or it's just because I'm medication free for the first time in a year.. 

I have always been a light sleeper, sleeping about 3/4 hours a night before starting mirtazapine..

I started getting hallucinations about two years ago but since I've quit they are getting stronger and more confusing. I don't know if it all down to mirtazapine???

Has anyone else had this issue??? (The hallucinations are only a night when I settle down btw).

 

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  • betsy0603
    betsy0603 lit53944

    Posted

    I found on the Surviving Antidepressants forum that there is a topic with a pdf of a checklist titled Dr. Joseph Glenmullen's withdrawal symptom checklist.  It does list Hallucinations, auditory and visual.  Since this site blocks outside links, you should be able to find it doing a web search for "Dr. Joseph Glenmullen's withdrawal symptom checklist."  You can otherwise find it by going to my withdrawing from psych drug thread, clicking on the link for Surviving Antidepressants, going to the Support: Tapering folder, and then going to "Important topics in the Tapering forum and FAQ."  There you will find in a list Dr. Joseph Glenmullen's Withdrawal Symptom Checklist.  Sorry to be so complex!

    https://patient.info/forums/discuss/withdrawing-from-antidepressants-and-benzos-safely-485891?page=0#1809368

    • betsy0603
      betsy0603

      Posted

      I check with the folks at SA and they said it does sound likely to be a withdrawal effect.  How are you doing now?
    • lit53944
      lit53944 betsy0603

      Posted

      Well I'm kinda glad that its most likely a withdrawal effect instead of a problem on it's own! 

      I have had to take a sleep aid the past few nights purely because I've been afraid and too anxious to sleep but I'll be trying to sleep naturally again, hopefully I'll get there in the end, once I'm 100% over mirtazapine. If the hallucinations continue after a while I'll have to double check with my doctor, but thank you for letting me know, it has put my mind at relative ease smile

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