starting Mirtazepine(zispin)...what should i expect?

[etmoo]

[Wearitlightly]

Hi,I've taken mirtazepine for a while. Everybody is different but I would expect it to have quite a sedative effect.When i first started taking it i got v sleepy v quickly.Therefore take it at night before you go to bed. If you have triuble sleeping it should help,though you may get some strange dreams aswell.

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Hi I ve taken Mirrazipane for two months.Usually doesn't t have many side effect for people.but for me didn t work.it made me feel very irritable,arguments with every single member of my family and I was eating all the time.my doc said it s the first time that a patient didn t agree with mirtazipane.since I came off I m much better and myself again.i m on cipralex now.

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Did not help me either.

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Hello, I was on mirtazapine for about 6 months. It did what it was supposed to do initially. As train80 says it is very sedating for most people. I found I had to quite literaly get into bed before I took it because it is soluble and very fast acting as a sedative. I didn't care about side effects when I started it because I was desparate. It did work for anxiety which was wonderful but the effect wore off after a few months. We are all different so that might not be how it is for you.

I also gained a stone. It's not as if somebody waved a magic wand and I got fat. I ate myself fat as a result of the food cravings it caused. A friend of mine didn't put on weight because he exercised a lot to make up for the extra food he was eating. So again it depends on how you deal with it.

I hope this is helpful. You can always PM me about most a-d's and anti anxiety drug as I've been round most of the shop!

I have to say this - I wouldn't recommend ever taking venlafaxine as it is so difficult to come off when it stops working. I'm not new to withdrawing from things, but this was something else.

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[rainy_12]

hello, i've only just joined but saw your post.... I took metazapine a few years back although it seemed helpful to me i was completely zonked as soon as i took it. I would take it at night and i felt the side affects very quickly I could not move basically and had to sleep right away. This was not good for me looking after two children under 3 at the time. I had my gp change it after a while for that reason and few others. Good Luck to you

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p.s one good thing i will say is that i did sleep very well, whereas on current and past medication I have had immense trouble with sleeping waking all the time night terrors etc :/

[etmoo]

Thanks for all comments,i do find it has helped me sleep,after a period of not sleeping,waking in a wild panic at 2-3 am and pacing the floor its a godsend to get a fullnights sleep,hopefully the side effects are less then i experienced with citalopram.Will watch for the weightgain but did lose a stone whilst in acute anxiety state so it may balance out.Still got a way to go.