MIRTAZIPINE

[milo1]

PLEASE has any one ever tried this drug i have been told there are less side effects than ssri i have been given them by doctor but still too scared to try has any one got any positive feedback please x

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Hi love everyone can react differently to medication you are frightening yourself about taking it love the only way your going to find out is to start them x

[milo1]

HI SHARONIOU thanks but i am so scared looking for all the reassurence i can get how are you today i did not sleep very well kept waking all the time just cant relax x

[Hidden in reply to milo1]

Hi love i know your sacred but like i s aid everyone responds differently to medication x Im still struggling slept ok but trying to think of different things to take my mind off anxiety x

[milo1]

hi sharoniou just dont want to end up in same state as the citralopam put me in i swear i was never like this i am sure they have done damage to me xx

[stillstanding]

Hi milo sorry you feel so rough. Me too. I'm trying the mirtazapine. It could be your illness making you worry. Try to get out and meet people as well. That helps me. stillstanding.

[AnneC]

Hello Milo, I have 30 mg Mirtazipine which I take at night to help me sleep - I have found it ok, no more beneficial than an ssri for me, but everyone is different. Even though I take it at nite it doesnt always help me to get off to sleep, and Im taking one tablet every othe night to try and wean myself off. I have never taken more than that as Im trying to come off drugs - I only ever took max 2 types, one of which I have finished and now left with the mirtzpine. My best medicine is getting out meeting people, diversion helps for me.

Sideeffects for me putting on weight - not huge amounts but more than i like.

[milo1]

hi all thanks for answering i have just been out to visit a friend she had her grandson there so i was playing with him but i have terrible pains in neck and head and pins and needles in face does any one else feel this is it anxiety my head feels like it is shaking x

[Hidden in reply to milo1]

Yes i have had that all week its because you are tense my pain was in the back of my neck then would go to the top of my head the more i thought about it the worse it got then pins and needles in my cheeks

[stillstanding]

Hi milo well done for getting out. I agree with acallow about trying to distract yourself. I've not had pins and needles, but have had other stomach pains and being sick yesterday. I'm finding being on the computer helping pass a bit of time and knowing someone out there understands.

[milo1]

thanks my jaw is shaking too and aching is this another symptom i dont get the pains in stomach my symptoms seem to be all in my face really scared my face feels all tingly sorry for being so negative but really worried x

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I dont get thestomach problems either just the neck head and face just started the last week or so its the nerve endings at my worst my whole body felt like that it was awful

[milo1]

hi stillstanding how long have you been on mirtazipine have you tried anything else before i only tried citralopam and it has literally scared me to death wish to god i had never taken them i am a totally different person i only had slight anxiety but now i am nervous wreck sorry for being a pain x

[milo1]

thanks sharoniou that makes a lot of sence it prob is the nerve endings but it is like unbearable at times thanks for answer x

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Put a cold cloth on your face

[AnneC]

Well done for going out - even though it was accompanied by pins and needles - no i dont get that but get fast heart beat, shaky all over and the worst is my mind goes absolutely blank and cant think straight. I tried Citalopram , my GP suggested it, but didnt suit me at all. I only like to be on one medication, I have always said that - and Im slowly slowly coming off that, is it because my anxiety is any better - no - its because ive tried a load of medication over the years and the thing that helps is either writing it out like this, or keeping busy. The best life lesson I have learnt is to try and live with anxiety, just accept that part of you is like that.

Everyone who suffers with anxiety is very brave, it takes all your strength some days just to get out the door, but, you must keep going, - most people dont have a choice anyway.

I have had some of the worst years of my life recently, but ive been through enough life to know that i and everyone else will survive.

[milo1]

thanks acallow i hope you are right and this is only anxiety i try really hard and dont want to take meds but i am really struggling x

[KevinManchester]

Hi

I have been on Mirtazipine for about 10 months, I started on 15mg per night. It does not get into your system for about 2 weeks. I take it just before I go to sleep and before I count to 20 I am in deep sleep. I take it for Anxiety. It does have a calming effect however It did not cure me 100%. I was told that if you increase it to 30mg it will make you less sleepy and increase the benefit. Unfortuantly ithe increase made me more agitated so I went back to 15mg and back to square one. I am still taking them every night but also I am having Hypontherapy treatment to help me relax. You have to attack anxiety on all fronts a pill is not the single answer. So diet, read books about it, try CBT, try relaxation remedies, music CDs, exercise. good luck Kevin

[flavour56]

Mirtazapine helps you sleep soundly, on it for years, started to wear of changed to citalopram, have no side effects from this drug, you will be ok