REMERON Reviews (MIRTAZAPINE)Average Rating: 2.9 (923 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare REMERON with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR REMERON | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | poor sleep, anxiety | very groggy in the AM initially. | I began taking 15 MG Remeron about 4 weeks ago. Before, I was waking up every night after 4-5 hours of sleep, sometimes less, and not being able to get back to sleep. The first week of taking the 15mg, there was the hangover effect in the morning and into the next day. I went down to 7.5MG until the end of the first week and moved back up to 15MG. I had been dealing with the sleep problems for much of the past 10 years. After the first week, the hangover effect went away. After the second week, my sleep continued to improve to the point where I sleep throughout the night virtually every night and when I do wake, I am able to get back to sleep. It's only been 4 weeks, but I can easily say that this drug has greatly helped my sleep and anxiety associated with the sleeplessness. I am sleeping better then I have since I was a kid. | M | 45 | 4 weeks 15mg 1X day | 2/24/2012 | 1 | moderate depression | I took this Friday night before bed as my doctor prescribed. I was warned it may cause sleepiness, but my side effect were much more extreme. I took it around 11pm Friday night and was able to read just fine for an hour before falling asleep. I typically wake at least once in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. I woke at 6am to use the bathroom and made it there, stumbling and was on my way back when I started feeling horribly nauseous and dizzy. I woke my husband hyperventilating. I made it back to the bathroom, thought I would throw up but had diarrhea. All the while my vision was going spotted black, my face was numb and I could hardly move my arms or legs. I stumbled back to bed and my poor husband had to flush the toilet. It was embarrassing how disoriented and helpless I was. I feel like I could barely get words out to speak to him and was very panicked. Moderate depression I can deal with in therapy, these side effects are NOT WORTH IT! The next day I slept | F | 26 | 1 days 30mg 1X day | 1/29/2012 | 2 | Insomnia | I also noticed problems with a "foggy" memory and poor concentration. | All of my side effects were gone within one day of stopping this medication! | F | 32 | 2 years 15mg 1X day | 1/26/2012 Patient History | 5 | BiPolar depression ,panic disorder | increased appetite and good sleep. Occasional nightmare also but that comes with the territory | Took this med. for years and it worked fine for me. It helped me sleep. It has heavy antihistamine effects as well. | F | 52 | 10 years 15MG 1X day | 1/20/2012 | 1 | depression | 8 months and loss of feeling for anything fell doped flu like | M | 43 | 15mg 1X day | 1/18/2012 | 5 | anxiety/insomnia | I started taking 15 MG for Insomnia and Anxiety after the death of my Mom.3 months later I lost my Grandson and couldn't cope. Mine was upped to 30MG. I have been taking this ever since. Had some very vivid dreams in the beginning and flu like symptoms, Gained a few pounds but think now it was due to not being as mobile as I was used to. | I now take it ever night 30 min. before bed time along with 10MG endocet and soma. I sleep very well all night, wake up very well rested and I'm able to work again.Give any medication time to work like its supposed to. There are no over night cures! | F | 45 | 1 years 30MG 1X day | 1/15/2012 | 2 | Anxiety & depression | Morning stupor that was so bad that I often slept for 12+ hours. It has caused a ravenous appetite and I have gained over a stone in weight. Dreaming is vivid but fortunately few nightmares. | My mood has stayed 'flat' throughout and I have still been experiencing uncomfortable levels of anxiety. My doctor has stopped my dose entirely so that I can go back to Sertraline in a weeks time. I am two days into withdrawl and the morning stupor is still present but no other withdrawl symptoms as yet (fingers crossed). | M | 57 | 1 years 30mg &15mg 1X day | 1/13/2012 | 2 | Depression, Anxiety | initially the sleeping and weight gain ( which I needed). But after a couple year my whole body seemed to go haywire with no reasonable explanation. Numbness and tingling in my legs and ars, panic attacks, pain in my muscles, aching all the time, loss of desire to get out of the house because I hurt so much.... I could go on and on | I have triend to get off of the drug but my body goes crazy, cant sleep, rapid heart beat, nightmares. I have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, something I had never heard of. My life has been reduced to a void. This is good for short term use but please dont end up like me, sometimes I think I would be better off dead, because it's killing me slowly and painfully anyway | F | 38 | 10 years 45 mg 1X day | 1/11/2012 | 4 | Anxiety | Weight gain - all other side effects have gone away. | I have now been on Remeron for approximately 4 months. I have had a little more weight gain, but have not gained anymore than 15 lbs total over the past 6 months. I am no longer drowsy when I get up, which has been great. I was also on Lorazepam 0.5mg two times per day, but have dropped down to 0.5mg one time per day only M-F and sometimes not at all during the day. My doctor is ok with me only taking it as needed. I was glad to go from taking a total of 21 pills each week to only taking 12. Remeron has done wonders for me. | F | 28 | 4 months 45mg 1X day | 1/5/2012 | 3 | anxiety/insomnia | weight gain, EXTREMELY vivid dreams (pleasant for myself, DO NOT take this if you're prone to nightmares, emotional numbness, groggy, possible breathlessness and tightness around head. | was supposed to take this for anxiety and insomnia, nil effects on anxiety, worked wonders for insomnia, half an hour after taking and im fast asleep, produces extremely vivid dreams every night, i take it before bed each night, can feel the effects almost immediately, do not take with anything else that causes drowsiness. after i take it if i close my eyes it almost feels as though my eyes are actually open because of the vivid imagery that goes on, almost like hallucinations, mostly pleasant, this will subside by the time you wake up in the morning. very groggy on this medication, cannot feel happy or sad, simply numb. but havent tried any other meds for anxiety that don't have this effect. just recently started feeling a tightness around my head, not sure yet if remeron is causing it though. | F | 19 | 4 months 30mg 1X day | 1/2/2012 | 5 | Panic/Anxiety | Restless legs but isn't terribly annoying. | These outrageous reviews by people who claim they are having such a horrible time adjusting to this med while simultaneously stating they are withdrawing form other meds at the same time is quite comical. Which med is causing you problems? Answer, you don't know and just want to complain about this most benign of all the antidepressant meds. Remeron has been the easiest of anti depressant meds for me to take and I've been on a bunch of SSRI/NRI type meds. The only side effects I get are good quality sleep and a lessoning of my anxiety. Take all these reviews even mine with a grain of salt. | M | 35 | 6 months 30 mg 1X day | 12/16/2011 | 2 | Anxiety / Depression | Worked well for insomnia, but little for depression. Also feel very sedateed at times and can no longer drive.. Tried slowly tapering down in 2005 but the withdrawal was too much and stayed on. Now I'm experiencing increasing numbness in both my legs since and am very concerned and will consult a neurologist. I'm otherwise fit, play tennis, yoga, etc. but the numbness is new and I'm very concerned it may cause nerve damage, Have others also experienced numbness in the legs? | May be good for sleep, but I feel often sedated and not here. Also not able to drive which is discouraging. Wish I had more courage to try other antidepressants - maybe now with the numbness issue I will. Love to here others opinions. | F | 53 | 10 years 60mg 1X day | 12/13/2011 | 5 | Major Depression | I started with 15mgs and had some sleepiness during the day for maybe 3 days. After 4 days I upped it to 30mgs and had the same sleepiness for about 3 days. After 4 days on 30mgs I upped it to 45mgs and I experienced some anxiety for about a week but no sleepiness. On the lower doses I did have food cravings but I just did not give in. After being on 45mgs for 3 weeks I could feel the antidepressant effects. My 7 year major depression has finally lifted. | Many of the low ratings are from users who really did not give the drug enough time to do its stuff. Right now its like I am not taking anything as far as side effects go and the depression is gone. Its important to stick with it. The side effects will go away. | M | 56 | 6 weeks 45mgs 1X day | 12/12/2011 | 4 | Depression | None after first week | F | 17 | 1 months 15mg | 12/11/2011 | 5 | severe depression & anxiety | Weight gain, sweet cravings, earaches, painful legs, pins & needles with pain in hand & arm. | F | 39 | 6 weeks 22mg | 12/8/2011 | 5 | depression n night terrors | the only side effect I really had was RLS(restless leg syndrome) n this was only in the first week of starting it.. | It stopped my night terrors completely, and helped my depression dramaticaly..I don't undrstand how most other posts on here have had such problems as they described..I have been on evey drug out there n also take other meds to treat me for psychosis n this drug is the best I have ever had to deal with my disorders..so I think either they didn't really have what they were diagnosed with or they didn't stay on it long enough to benefit from it!!! | M | 34 | 7 years 30 mg 1X day | 11/23/2011 | 1 | Insomnia and Fibromyalgia pain | Major weight gain (32 lbs) due to constant sugar cravings (completely unlike me!), muscle wasting (mystery raised blood CPK levels), chronic fatigue and weakness throughout body, severe burning muscle pain in legs, tremors, numbness and loss of sensation in hands and feet, increased blood pressure. | At first thought the drug was magic, it immediately cured my insomnia with minimal side effects; the chief one being unusual increased appetite, especially for sugary foods. However, roll on a few months & I then went on to experience the worst 18 months of my life. A complete unexplained deterioration in my overall health, with all sorts of strange neurological symptoms, & considerable muscle weakness. Things got so bad that the medics suspected I could be suffering from muscular dystrophy or MS! After some 20 months I was also concerned by large weight gain for an individual who had always been within safe weight range, & in < 2 yrs had become clinically obese. Tests ruled out nasty muscular & neurological diseases. Concerned that drug might be the culprit, agreed to come off it. 2 weeks after stopping the drug the tremors had ceased, & I began to get sensation back in my extremities. After 3 weeks the horrible burning sensation in my legs vanished, & my general fatigue began to disappear. 6 wks on, I feel human again, & now completely rid of all these horrible side-effects. In last 6 wks have shed 21 lbs without trying. The drug was 'sold' to me as a benign medication with minimal side effects. However, for me it unfortunately turned out to be pure poison!! Yes it can be a great treatment for insomnia, & very helpful for severe depression difficulties, but please be aware for some people it can cause very nasty side effects. | M | 39 | 20 months 30mg 1X day | 11/20/2011 Patient History | 1 | Major dpression, PTSD | Aggitated, confused, worse anxiety, feel like a freight train. Eating habits are awful, terrible dreams, I feel ten times more worse then when I started! | I have even had thoughts of suicide. I see my therapist tomorrow. I need to be OFF of this med right away. | F | 40 | 30 days 15 1X day | 11/8/2011 | 4 | Anxiety | Little weight gain (10 lbs over 5 months), hard to get up in the mornings, intense dreams | I started taking 30mg approximately 5 months ago with .5mg anxiety med twice a day. I was switched 45mg two months ago and only take the anxiety med every weekday morning and as needed (which has not been more than a couple times). Remeron has helped me get back to myself. I just started working out and trying to eat a little healthier in hopes of dropping a few of the pounds I have gained while taking this med. I find it difficult to get myself out of bed in the morning and have started taking the med a little earlier at night (used to take it between 10 and 10:15, now I take it around 9:30) which has helped a little. I have really intense dreams that leave me a little 'out of it' when I wake up almost as if I am having difficulty knowing if it was a dream or reality. I am still worried about the weening process, but it appears that won't be happening for another 6 months at least. | F | 28 | 2 months 45 1X day | 10/25/2011 | 1 | Depression | This drug immediately caused Cervical Dystonia (a neurological condition of the neck), so I stopped taking it. | I personally didn't like this drug due to the Cervical Dystonia it created. | M | 49 | 1 days 15 MG 1X day | 10/25/2011 |