Mirtazapine/Remeron

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Anyone have any experience on this tablet from hell?

I ask because I have been on it for 10 years. However recently I tried to wean off it but when I stopped I started running a fever, got electric shock sensations and my panic attacks reappeared not to mention the fact that my skin became so painful to the touch I could not stand even having clothes or my hair against it. It just hurt all over. However that all stopped within 2 hours of taking half a tablet of mirtazapine so I am sure it was withdrawal.

Whilst on it I always had patches where I felt very angry over stupid stuff that did not really warrant that level of anger. Now a lot of people thought I was just an angry person but...I never used to be. More placid and timid most of the time. My anxiety was mostly a direct reaction of trauma not of self induced anger over nonsense.

Anyway, the week that I did manage to come off it after reducing my dose (I was fine on the reduced dose, just not after I stopped it completely), I did notice that my anger disappeared. As did the constant bloomin hunger I get whilst I am taking it...meaning I actually started to feel satisfied after having eaten and did not get ridiculous sugar cravings. My moods also evened other than the odd strange surge of anxiety for no reason during withdrawal.

2 weeks back on it and my anger is back full force, my appetite has gone nuts and I literally can't stop eating and my moods are swinging around so much even I cannot keep up with them. The 30mg dose I am on is blowing my darn head off! (not literally...Oh god I hate giving myself bad imagery lol).

Anyone know if mirtazapine can cause mood swings and anger? I know it can cause appetite problems and obesity but am not sure about the other stuff.

I do not know if I am coming and going since going back up to 30 mgs. One minute I am in the depth of despair, the next I am high as a kite, the next I am fuming over nothing....I mean bloody hell its ridiculous.

I am going to try taking the dose down to 15 mgs again as reducing the dose seemed to stop withdrawal but allowed the other stuff to subside last time (ie not so angry with more stable moods).

Now I am not sure how much of mental health issues over the last ten years was down to the bloody tablets and how much is down to me? I know I went on them post drinking days for panic attacks that appeared during alcohol withdrawal and lasted for a year or two afterwards (never had panic attacks before my drinking days) and also to help me sleep (I was not sleeping well). But I kind of got left on them after that. Nobody took me off them and I didn't know if I should stay on them or not so just carried on. Taking them became part of my daily routine and I stopped thinking about it.

Anyone else have experience with this tablet?

I may go back to my dr and ask if they can reduce my dose more slowly as quite frankly going from 15 mgs every other day to nothing did not suit me at all. I think i would rather taper off more gradually than that until I am down to a ridiculously low dose and then see how I go.

I take Mirtazapine. All I know is that it helps me sleep. My doctor has offered to increase the dose to get a better anti-depressant effect but I refused, because that would mean sacrificing the sedative effect which I now rely on.
If I forget to take it at night, and end up taking it in the morning, it literally knocks me out for about 3 hours.

I was put on it for a couple months I think about 3 years ago by a neurologist for Essential Tremors; I was on a few other meds for different mental things & he cleared it with my psych before prescribing it for me. It made me sleep over 10 hours a day & I felt really hung-over & wasted when I was awake. My tremors got worse too. I asked the neurologist to take me off of it at my next appointment but instead he prescribed me another med to take in addition with it. I looked em up online when I got home & it seemed like a horrible idea for me to be on them because they both had side-effects of causing tremors so I weaned myself off of that med & never went back to that neurologist.

I don't get tremors from them but I do know the hung over and wasted feeling!

I have a tremor disorder & psych meds generally increase it & make em a lot worse when the meds start wearing off.
I forgot about another major problem I had when I was on that med. It made me very hungry & I gained a lot of weight because I spent most of my time sleeping & eating

Sounds about right...yes. Food, sleep, food, sleep, food, sleep.
Sle...food...ep (<<<midnight snacks lol).