mylan-mirtazapine side effects

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I started this particular medication recently )fioor depression and generalized anxiety disorder) and it seems almost immediately I noticed a couple of side effects of it. It caused both an increase in appetite and in levels of frustration. After a few days of this I admittedly just stopped taking the pills. I work with the public. I can't be frustrated at work, and I simply don't want to be frustrated at home either. While taking the meds, I found myself getting overly annoyed at anything from stuck together grocery bags to having dropped a few things on the floor. Traffic made me mad and I couldn't stand dealing with people for long at all. I just couldn't stop the frustration over anything and everything. Then there was the appetite problem. I don't want to need to eat so often and feel hungry all the time. Maybe I'm just being silly here, but I would rather be depressed and anxious than deal with these two side effects. They are too inconvenient in my life circumstances.

Anyone else who is on this, notice either of these or both as well? Do you know if there is a remedy for either effect. I'd go back on the meds if I could be rid of both the frustration and the appetite increase, but am not willing to take them if I'm just going to be PO'd and hungry all day.

I found it made me really tired & hungry. I'd wake up, eat, go back to sleep, get up after a couple hours & the cycle would repeat. Sense you mentioned frustration I think I was more frustrated on it & I was having more meltdowns but I never thought of the Mirtazapine link till now & I'm still not sure it was that. My advice would be to try a different med.

I am taking it and it does increase my appetite....but doesn't seem to cause any rise in frustration levels. The increase in appetite is helpful for me though. But yeah sounds like it's not the right thing for you if its causing frustration, not sure there is a way to counter that aside from not taking that medication. But maybe there is something else that would help.

I took it for about 3 months a few years ago. I know my appetite skyrocketed, but I don't know whether it was the medication or the fact that I was cluelessly pregnant. It could have been "neither." My appetite had been seriously severely suppressed for almost a year prior to that; it was nice to be willing to eat again.

I did not notice an increase in frustration-- but I'd been miserable, and profoundly messed-up on risperidone for eight months, and basically at that point I was so completely FUBAR that there were only two ways to go-- Up, or dead.

I did notice, after coming off of it, that I'd been sleepy a lot (had more energy once it was gone). Once again, though, after being soooooooo messed-up for so long, I didn't notice anything at the time.

On the whole, I would use that drug again...

...but you are not me. If it's causing side-effects that you don't want to deal with-- especially psycho-neurological side-effects like irritability-- it's not the right medication for your body chemistry. You'd prolly be better off to try something else rather than to try to treat the side effects. I'm not real big on treating the side-effects unless the medication is necessary for the sustenance of life/minimal function and no alternative exists. With antidepressants/antianxieties, there are A LOT of alternatives.

An acquaintance of mine is having very good results with sertraline (Zoloft I think). So has my grandmother. Both were using it for anxiety more than depression. I should note that neither of them are on the spectrum.