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Week 3 and a bit... :(

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gillian20097
gillian20097

Hello all.

I'm actually looking for a bit of reassurance.

I was on Mirtazapine 15mg for 6 days and on a increased dose of 30mg for 19 days.

I am sleeping now most nights and my appetite has increased a little. My anxiety and expression have decreased a tiny bit but nothing major. I still feel very anxious,negative and depressed when I first wake. 

I've had some ok days and some bad days but haven't had no days where I'm feeling and thinking " normal" or believing that there is a end to feeling like this.

Am I expecting to much too soon? 

I would appreciate some good feedback as I thing my mind is a little to fragile right now to hear any horror stories.

Thankyou xx

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  • patricia85842
    patricia85842 gillian20097

    Posted

    Hi Gillian

    I am sure the same will happen to you, you just have to be prepared to try the different drugs.  I do the think the SSRIs are a waste of time and so do lots of other people.  This year has been a nightmare for me and I never thought I would ever feel well again.   It's so wonderful to feel your old self again feeling happy and having lots of energy.

    I will watch the posts and hope to see you feeling happy again.

    Love Pat xx

    • michelle49272
      michelle49272 patricia85842

      Posted

      Hi patricia read your post saying you take mirtazapine and venlafaxine i am on 45 mirtazapine still dnot feel  well i  feel they to have stopped working. Been taking this med for about 6/7 months now upped  from 30mg to 45mg  around about  June because i went down on that dose losing all faith of getting any better now as its coming up to a year now i went down big time didn't get out of bed,eat,sleep etc. Was put on citlopam and sleeping tabs till January. Saw a psychiatrist  was suicidal she put me on mirtazapine. just feel thay get you so far then Bang i feel so low every day is a stuggle motivation a 0,  im  crying for England. all the psyciatrist says keel tying had enough. please any advise x
    • gillian20097
      gillian20097 patricia85842

      Posted

      Thank you. I think that your post must of done the trick because tonight is a good night smile 

      I may crash again tomorrow but I will deal with that then.

      Xx

    • patricia85842
      patricia85842 michelle49272

      Posted

      HI Michelle

      I was just like you with the Mirt.  It worked at first but then it would stop working.  Everone is different and I wouldn't advise anyone what to take as I am not a medic.  However I think you get to the point that you will try anything and as I said in the post my Psych. said that sometimes Venlafaxine and Mirt don't work when taken singly but as a combination they are excellent.  If your present meds. don't work it might be worth asking your psych. about the combination.

      Good luck anyway  I do hope you will have success soon.

      Pat

    • gillian20097
      gillian20097 patricia85842

      Posted

      Me to Pat.

      Thank you.

      Ive had my best day so far today. Not 100%,still a few negatives and fears there but hopefully in a few weeks that will pass. 

      I found some relaxation audios on YouTube and listened to one last night and another this morning. I think they really helped with that morning anxiety xx

    • patricia85842
      patricia85842 gillian20097

      Posted

      Hi Gillian

      So delighted to read of your good news.  That morning feeling is the worst thing about depression. I  remember reading a book by I think her name was Claire Weeks and in it she said that you can feel great at night and think "right that's it I am over it!" because you felt so great at night and that was certainy me.  She then went on to say but the next morning that awful feeling was back again.  I think that waking up with that feeling is the worst thing about depression.  I used to stay in bed

      until late afternoon I just couldn't face getting up.  What I am trying to say in my long winded way Gillian is that the morning you wake up and don't have that awful feeling you will know you are well on the way to recovery.   I couldn't believe it that after nearly two years I suddenly woke up feeling fantastic.   Your day will come and I hope you will let me know when it does.

      Love Pat xx

    • gillian20097
      gillian20097 patricia85842

      Posted

      I read that too somewhere. I think it was in a poem or a write up somebody had wrote about depression.

      i can't wait for that day. The day when it gets to night time and I realise that right from opening my eyes,,the day was good smile 

      You make me feel better Pat. Think it always does when somebody is through the other side and can tell you how it is xx

    • NickOliver
      NickOliver gillian20097

      Posted

      I have always been a night person. I will typing at this machine till earlly inth emorning. I told my cousin that I often didn't get up until 111. This was partly because of my meds - but I am not working although I do have voluntary work that I do - and I can't make alll my appointments in the afternoon. But I play in an orchestra, sing in a choir etc whichall meet in the evening.

      When I was working and wellish I would wake up early and get up at 6, and sit at the computer etc. By 9 I would be absolutely knackered. Rather than feeling good about getting up early I would feel washed out etc.

      Also I have found that I would get up early, feel good, mybe lying awake and creating my own reality, but then when I came up against the external reality of the world outside I would crumble.

      I have come to the conclusion that when one's own internal world bears something like some relationship to the exteral world then one is approaching what is generally referred to as "wellness".

  • peter06066
    peter06066 gillian20097

    Posted

    You are in the exact spot I am, 15mg for 6 days, and now 30mg for about 23 days, and I feel just like you.  I feel a bit better, but I don't anticipate much more than this, however I do feel a bit better, and my doctor said a couple months before you can really judge, however just the fact that it is doing anything beneficial at all, no matter how small, could be a good sign...I wish I knew more, I will be sure to fill everyone in after a couple months on this..
    • gillian20097
      gillian20097 peter06066

      Posted

      It's hard isn't it Peter? Trying to keep calm to relieve anxiety but staying active enough to try and beat the depression.

      Ive not had a day yet where I feel like my old self..have you?

      I have though as you said had days where I feel a little better.

      My doc said 6-8 weeks on these but he says that about everything. 

      I will also come back with any progress xx

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