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 |
| 1 | insomnia | when I took it same as last time slept good but groggy, WARNING!!!! I stopped at 7.5 mgs got huge crying spell and I wasnt depressed, couldnt eat for a week, couldnt sleep anymore on my own, and I am now wondering when the haze is going to wear off, I hope it does, plus extreme anxiety! | Dont take this poison! | M | 27 | 3 days 15mg 1X day | 4/18/2011 | 1 | Insomnia | I took this for one night and was exhausted the next day. I have a 14 month old daughter and didn't have the energy to do anything at all for over half the day! Definitely NOT something I'd recommend. | F | 19 | 1 days 7.5 mg 1X day | 4/6/2011 | 5 | anxiety OCD | Puts you right to sleep. The morning daze lasted only 5 mornings. This drug worked like a charm for my panic disorder. I had not experienced any weight gain until the last few months. I am 5 foot, small frame and weight jumped from 85lbs to 98 lbs in 5 months. My calorie intake is no different than 5 months ago and I have been working out everyday with no reduction or maintaining weight. Currently asking doctor on tapering this med. | F | 31 | 1 years 45 mg 1X day | 4/1/2011 | 1 | anxiety, insomnia | low heart rate (im 23 and it was like having the heart of a 60 yr old), social phobia, depression, lack of confidence, panic attacks, dull brain, alzheimer's, anger without being able to express it, etc. | This drug is no good for anyone who is young. It is only useful for sleep, NOTHING ELSE. Its like i spent the whole year in a fog. The first few days were HELL. My heart rate severely dropped and escalated into a panic attack. It was horrible, thought i was going schizo it was so bad. I spent this entire year avoiding people, only wanting to sleep, hating myself, feeling like the road of life was over, playing like shit at sports, going crazy, and just being totally apathetic. I would strongly suggest other options if u have insomnia, anxiety, or depression. Not a good drug. | M | 23 | 1 years 30mg 1X day | 3/22/2011 | 2 | Insomnia, anxiety | First time I took it at 30 mgs I couldnt put my socks on. Craved food like crazy, but didn't put me to sleep like others. By 8 days it put me into a sort of dream state with alzheimers like symptoms, would forget everything a second later. Only after I cut the dose down to 15mg did I go to sleep, scared the crap out of me. | M | 27 | 11 days 30 mg 1X day | 3/9/2011 | 2 | mild depression, insomnia, fibromya | massive , quick weight gain, terrible, vivid bad dreams recurring over and over, dry mouth, dry eyes, stomach tenseness, feeling pissed off all day, mood swings, gained 15 lbs in 5 weeks. | F | 53 | 2 months 15mg 1X day | 3/2/2011 | 4 | Anxiety, obcessive thoughts, depres | Vivid dreams, maybe harder to get up in the morning. Sometimes I think a little nervous | I started with 15 mg/day for anxiety. I have been on small dose Kllonopin for svrl yrs which take concurrently. Tried all of the SSRI's but the sexual side effects were always bad. I've had no urge for eating as others report. Its seems to be working for depression and obcessive, thoughts which play into my GAD. Three days ago Psych. upped from 15 mg to 22 mg /day. First night at 22mg woke at 3 am went back to sleep. Second night woke at 3 and dreamed I couldn't sleep until wake up time (buspar and neuronten similarly did this). Third night, slept ok through the night. Also, it produces a pleasant feeling that comes in waves at least initially -- just pleasant. No cognitive problems that I'm aware of. Meant to mention its also seems real helpful for social anxiety and doesn't make you too disinhibited). I wish I had tried this long before messing around with 1/2 dozen SSRI's... Don't know why it was never reccomeneded for me. Will have to see how it goes over time, but so far so good! | M | 44 | 4 weeks 22 mg 1X day | 2/17/2011 | 2 | Anxiety and Depression | extreme drowsiness, increased hunger, unpleasant dreams | This drug did help with my anxiety a little bit in the sense that the physical symptoms of anxiety disappeared. I still worried as much as ever, but I didn't get as many of the physical symptoms of anxiety as I used to such as rapid heart beat, palms sweating, extreme nervousness, etc. I honestly believe the physical symptoms only went away because my body was too exhausted to experience them. Remeron puts you in a zombie like state. I took it at night as directed and would be unable to stay awake any longer within 15 minutes of taking the drug. My 2 year old son would come climb into my bed in the middle of the night and it wouldn't wake me. Getting out of bed in the morning was next to impossible, and I went through each day feeling like I didnt care about anything besides getting back to sleep. Concentrating or being a good employee is next to impossible on remeron. Now the dreams....they sucked. I had the CRAZIEST dreams on Remeron. I would wake up just feeling disturbed and having no idea why I was dreaming about those things. Luckily, I was too much of a zombie to stay awake and stress over them. Overall, this drug wasn't worth the mild relief of anxiety it gave me. | F | 23 | 2 months 15 mg 1X day | 2/8/2011 | 5 | bipolar nos | no side effects | mirtazapine works great. i cant even tell i am taking any medicine. i have bipolar nos with pstd and dissociative disorder. and i also take 160mg of geodon, 20mg of lexapro, 25 mg of lamictal, 3mg of guanfacine, and the 30mg of mirtazapine. i cant even tell i am taking any medicine. | F | 32 | 6 months 30mg 1X day | 2/2/2011 | 1 | Anxiety, Mild Depression | Skin rash, raised heart beat, acne, facial skin drying and peeling off, drowsiness, agitation. | Took this for anxiety, immediately had a skin rash around my hair line and chest. I thought it was my new shampoo. Today my facial skin was so sore, the skin on my nose peeled off to reveal a swollen red nose. I am SO mad. This didn't help with my anxiety either and made me reallllly drowsy. Not worth it!! | F | 16 | 2 weeks 7.5 1X day | 1/27/2011 | 4 | Anxiety, mild depression, sleep | No side effects anymore. It took a long time to get benefits, so try to hang in there with it and make increases very slowly and never when you have responsibilities the next day; do it when you have a few days off. It does get easier. Now I can do increases with no problems, but I still am careful. | I began at 2.25 mg with side effects. I gained about 15 pounds at first, but now I am about 5 pounds heavier than I want to be. I do exercise and do weight training and am very careful of what I eat. You can control the eating, it is just mind over matter. Do not sit around thinking about food; be active. I am still slowly doing more increases. My sleep is usually better. I will touch base in a few more months and see how it is. Getting rid of the bad relationship I am sure has helped, too. I have found doctors that I truly love. Get a good support system. More is needed than just Remeron. Make life changing decisions. | F | 58 | 6 months 30 1X day | 1/18/2011 Patient History | 4 | Insomnia, depression, ibs | I started taking remeron for insomnia/depression in 2001. It was rough in the beginning, I could sleep for days. It's been 11 yrs now and the only side effects I had were, extreme drowsiness during the day, even after 10 hours of sleep. My appetite was out of control. I swear I woke up in the middle of the night to eat. My memory is terrible. I recently started to gradually wean myself off over the past few weeks. I went 4 days without taking it and had severe withdrawal symptoms. My anxiety shot through the roof, shakes, body aches, the whole nine. I seriously felt like a crackhead. After experiencing that, I dont know if I will ever be able to get off this medication. I will have to say remeron is great for short term, but like any other drug, you will become dependant | F | 24 | 11 years 45 mg 1X day | 1/5/2011 | 5 | Anxiety, insomnia, depression | Weight gain -- FAST. Put on 16 pounds in a couple of months. Carbohydrate cravings. Very vivid dreams, but only one or two nightmares (I've had them without medication, too). Other than that, no other side effects. NO sexual side effects at all, as is often the case with antidepressants. I LOVE this medication. | I love Remeron - it gave me my life back after months of severe anxiety, panic attacks, OCD thoughts and insomnia. I was able to sleep, function and have tapered down to a minimal dose (<7 mg) at night. I previously tried Lexapro, Klonapin and Trazodone--those drugs made me totally nuts. Remeron was marvelous for me: it worked almost immediately and improved my mood, my ability to sleep normally, and put an immediate end to anxiety, panic attacks, and made my OCD tolerable. I'd go back up to 30 mg if I didn't have concerns about my weight. | F | 50 | 2 years 30 mg 1X day | 12/30/2010 | 2 | insomnia | Big increase in appetite. But nothing really unpleasant. | This did not put me to sleep. It did not work for me. Started out at 15mg then up to 22.5 mg then 30 mg. At 30 mg i was up all night. No harsh side effects. But no strong benefit either. | M | 42 | 20 days 15 mg 1X day | 12/28/2010 | 1 | Depression, anxiety and ocd | Hard to get up in the mornings, irritability, worsened misophonia | Didn't work apart from helping me sleep much better. | F | 19 | 7 months 30mg 1X day | 12/27/2010 | 1 | deep depression / anxiety | My name is marcelo alvarenga my mail for questions is [email protected] remeron 30mg made me nor happy nor sad, made me sleep for waaay too much time, made me gain weight and may mood was not good or bad just didnt care about anything, it just made me feel null, life passing in front of my eyes with no feeligns good or bad, I took it after prescription and my parents made me took it, for 2 years i sleeped about 15 hours daily and feel like nothing, it just makes you feel like airhead people NOW IM GONNA TELL YOU THE BAD STUFF NOW | THE BAD STUFF REALLY GOT ME I've stopped taking this awful "medicine" for one reason, one time I went to traveling to El salvador, I live in Guatemala the country right next to it, we got to the beach resort it was alright with my dad and brother, we took dinner and my medicine, always the horrible feeling of I gotta sleep with a sensation of something like fever but it was always kind of weird (the remeron pill), it made me feel just like all other times like dizzy and sleepy the BAD STUFF WAS that I woke up, woke up and the first thing I saw was the most horrific vision I've ever had, like the pure sense of fear, I was screaming out waaay loud, the most horrid visions appeared in front of me being awake, there were this beings of pure evil this shadows diffuse but at the same time extreme detailed alien, evil entity geometric pure fear producing beings, I could'nt stand watching my brothers face cause it was WAY TOO HORRIBLE, the palm trees around me erupted smoke beings of pure despair, horror the most extreme fear I have felt my whole life yes it was intense and non stopping - how did it stopped, I took a TAFIL 1MG that my dad had by accident, as it had strong anti anxiety effects the deep hallucinations wore of, I was able to see pooples faces againg because they were melting, the face was pure sking with an alien entity into it of pure fear extreme detailed in front... after I took the anti anxiety medication i felt asleep and everything was A ok | M | 28 | 2 years 30mg 1X day | 12/24/2010 | 2 | sleep | M | 46 | 4 days 1X day | 12/18/2010 | 1 | Insomnia | I would never take this poison again. It gave me side effects that I still battle after being off it for 2 years. Several studies show that Mirtazapine accutely supresses cortisol and DHEA remarkably by reducing ACTH in the pituitary gland. For example: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science | F | 36 | 12 months 30 mg 1X day | 12/5/2010 | 3 | to help sleep | None at first except weight gain / huge increase in appitite | Was great at first. . slept like a baby the very first night, and if I forget to take a single dose, I sleep poorly and wake up numerous times. . . Due to other medical issues and with my Dr's aid, I tried to go off it recently . . . . and slowly, over the next 2-3 weeks, I descended into a severe depression. .no sleep for days at a time, then only an hour or two at most. I mean this was mental death, the deepest dark hole with no hope for life. . . horrible, couldn't even get out of bed all day, life was useless !!!! . . . I endured this for 4 weeks trying to adjust, and my then Dr put me back on and within 48 hours I was a lot more normal. . now I'm scared that I've somehow made my body addicted to Remeron's anti-depressant effects, even though I was never depressed before taking this drug. I strongly recommend you reconsider taking this drug if it is for only sleeping help. Apparently it has strong mind altering powers in my case. Did I say I'm scared of it ?? !! | M | 64 | 8 years 30 @ bedti 1X day | 11/27/2010 | 5 | Fibro, severe panic and anxiety | In the beginning there were minor side effects, with time they go away! You have to hang in there and wait for the full effect of this miracle drug to work it's magic. | At night I take Remeron, 10 mil of Prozac, .5 tablet of Klonopin, 10 ml of Ambien. I am on soc sec disability and cannot work. With my cocktail of meds, I sleep well from 10 pm to 9 or 10am. This totally works for me, I get up, I feel great, (accept for my muscle pain from Fibromyalgia, my Remeron was not prescribed for that). I have no appetite change or gain in weight, I've always picked at fruit and veggies and have been thin my whole life. I can and have gone a night or two without Rem. with no problem/withdrawl. 30 ml is as high a dose as I can take and I love it! My med combo makes me feel like me. I feel level and not depressed...was never depressed. If I take my Rem at 10pm, and have to get up earlier...8am, I can get up, I am a bit drowsy, but by the time my shower is over, I am awake, do my exercizes and off I go. Can't stress enough, for those of you that are doing ok on Rem but have been taking it for a short time and questioning it's side effects or whatever you are feeling...GIVE IT TIME, I LOVE THIS MED. My heart breaks for those that do not get the benefits of Rem, because it is the best thing my psychiatrist could have prescribed for me, I am thankful. Lastly, 45 ml was too much for me, gave me a bit a panic/anxiety. 30 ml was the magic amount. Panic and anxiety gone, I feel strong and happy. | F | 48 | 1.5 years 30 1X day | 11/25/2010 |