REMERON Reviews (MIRTAZAPINE)

Average Rating: 2.9 (923 Ratings)

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REMERON  (MIRTAZAPINE):  Mirtazapine is used to treat depression. It improves mood and feelings of well-being. Mirtazapine is an antidepressant that works by restoring the balance of natural chemicals (neurotransmitters) in the brain.   FDA Approval Date: 1997-03-17 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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 5  Insomnia, depression & mental It helps me get to sleep earlier in the night and experience deeper sleep states and vivid dreams with recall the next day. It is difficult to wake up in the morning and I find myself sleeping in as long as I can before I must wake up. I gained about 30 lbs in 3 months but think my body needed the excess weight to function properly. I get insatiably hungry at night about 30 to 60 minutes after taking it. I tend to choose to eat sweets or carbs. I take 15mg at night and then 50mg of Zoloft/sertraline in the morning. This has proven to be an excellent synergy or me as either one on its own seemed to be missing something. The positive effects of this medication outweighs the negative (mostly weight gain and sedation the next day). I feel like my cognitive abilities are greatly enhanced and I can think better and perform my accounting job better during the day. Somehow I know that my brain is in better health while taking this drug and it is operating at a higher level. M 50 3 months
15 1X day
2/27/2019
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 3  anxiety, depression I have been suffering from really bad health anxiety and depression. I lost 15 pounds because i had absolutely no appetite and was throwing up every morning because of my anxiety. Remeron has helped a little with my appetite, has definitely helped my mood, but more so of a “i don’t care” attitude than happy. I have been having crazy vivid dreams and I think even hallucinations, as I can’t tell whether things really happened during my sleep or not. After 3 weeks of being on it, I was upped to the whole pill rather than half. I have started experiencing night sweats which really scares the hypochondriac in me, but I am hoping it’s just the medication F 20 3 weeks
15 MG
2/11/2019
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 3  Depression , Anxiety and Insomnia Very very hungry all the time and very groggy waking up in the morning. It was difficult sleeping I was knocked out Every night and couldn’t hear anything... I wouldn’t recommend for anyone that is working during the week When starting to take only take half and ease into it F 39 26 days
30mg
1/31/2019
 3  Anxiety and Depression Dizziness and fatigue How can i counter the side effects of Remeron, The dizziness and fatigue M 61 4 months
45 mg
1/1/2019
 1  Anxiety/Depression/PTSD Insomnia, weight gain, increased appetite for carbs, trouble swallowing, increased heart rate, aggravation of asthma symptoms Drug can male you drowsy while awake but does the opposite for me when I close my eyes. I start coughing shortly after I take this medication. Can't sleep with is, so I have to take zopiclone and then I sleep an additional 12-14 hours without much, if any REM. Normally, Zopiclone has me sleep for about 6 hours. M 52 5 days
7.5 1X day
9/8/2018
 2  Depression, Anxiety Stoned for the first week, craving for sweet food Mood improved after increasing to 30, but heart rhythm change, epotopic beats appeared.weight gain. Was not compatible with me, brought out premature atrial fibrillation on 30mg & ringing in ears. Reduced to 15 mg then started craving sweets & carbs. I had to cease the medication. Valium was required for the first week to help ween off. M 45 2 months
15-30
9/1/2018
 2  Depression, Anxiety Stoned feeling for first week, Sleep within 30 minutes. Premature atrial contractions, craving for anything unhealthy to eat. Dizziness. Not for me, brought out irragular heart beat on 30mg, ringing in ears. Reduced to 15 mg only to have total munchies, slight PAC & weight gain as a result. Ceased after 2 months. Dont piss around tapering off from 15mg, just stop and use valium to help with sleep if needed. M 45 2 months
15-30
9/1/2018
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 2  Insomnia Irritability, Dizziness, Feet swelling, Lethargy, Lowered Libido, Rashes, Voice changes Not a fun drug. After the first night of taking i woke up extremely dizzy, like i had stepped off of a merry go round- i was staggering around my apartment after getting out of bed. Later that first day, i took a nap and dreamt i was in a windowless room in a Soviet psych ward talking to a Soviet Dr. in Russian. The first week i noticed an uptick in mood and appetite, but that soon turned to irritability. it caused a strange dystonia in my upper chest and neck and i lost the ability to hit high notes while singing, which i read online happening to someone else. i became extremely unmotivated and lethargic on it and just wanted to watch tv. it also wiped out most of my libido and made me feel emotionally castrated. After 2 months none of my shoes fit anymore and i developed horrible bright red rashes in my armpits that itched incessantly. i saw two doctors who denied the rashes were from remeron, but they would go away when i stopped taking the drug. Withdrawing from this drug has been a nightmare. First two days, every time i would cough, i would start to gag and then vomit. For 4 weeks i had headaches and nausea and shallow sleep and was basically too weak to leave my couch. i felt like death. i also have developed food sensitivities where it seems like gluten causes my brain to swell against my skull now. M 46 8 months
15 mg 1X day
5/31/2018
 4  General Anxiety Disorder No side effects. Sleep improved 100%. Anxiety down a little. Butterflies in stomach nearly gone. Fast improvement on other drugs I have taken. It's early days as I've only been on them for 5 days. M 73 5 days
15 mg
5/26/2018
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 2  major depressive disorder Sleepiness, muscle weakness, dizziness, clumsiness, cold extremities, diarrhea, visual disturbances, emotional lability, vivid/bad dreams I've been on different antidepressants for over 20 years, and mirtazapine (Remeron) is the first to immediately make my depression worse and to have more than few side effects. I'm not saying it won't work for anyone, but it was a bad experience for me. M 51 55 days
30 1X day
3/27/2018
 5  Depression Last night was my first time and never again. Less than 30 secondos after taking the pill I was out cold. I was so dizzy I fell in my living room and hit my head. Made me feel worst than any other pills I've taken. Stay far from this pill. F 58 1 days
15mg
3/3/2018
 5  Depression Last night was my first time and never again. Less than 30 secondos after taking the pill I was out cold. I was so dizzy I fell in my living room and hit my head. Made me feel worst than any other pills I've taken. Stay far from this pill. F 58 1 days
15mg
3/3/2018
 1  not diagnosed weight gain ,drowsiness food intolerance on withdrawal, cognitive impairment, negative thoughts, anger, anxiety, de-personalisation, change in body metabolism. Hated the world and myself whilst on this medicine. never again 1-5 How does this medicine get a licence to be sold when it has such opposite effects on people? Its reliability of use should be questioned over to the damage to life it causes. Doctors need to take responsibility for what they prescribe, then maybe they wouldn't hand them out like sweets M 48 11 months
15 1X day
1/14/2018
 5  Insomnia, Arnold- Chari malformatio It saved my life M 38 10 years
45 1X day
1/8/2018
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 1  Anxiety Dizzy and tired This medicine is just for sleep. It's highly addictive like Xanax M 41 1 days
15
12/20/2017
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 4  Anxiety None started to low better now Started 22.5 now 30mg workingbetter M 76 5 months
30mg
11/19/2017
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 3  ocd Weight gain then recently awful swollen feet and ankles very painful. Since quitting the drug feet are improving. The drug helped me in the beginning but long term use I would say is not good. I am now drug free I also had aching joints so much so the Dr thought I had arthritis. F 51 5 years
30mg
11/11/2017
 1  Depression It made me ravenously hungry all the time. All I wanted to do was eat more and more. I gained almost 20 pounds in 3 weeks before I told my doctor that I had to stop taking it. It was also very sedating. I was hungry and sleepy all day. I’ve taken just about every antidepressant on the market and this is the only medication that I’ve had such intolerable side effects from, especially right from the beginning. It was so bad that even if it had worked well on my depression (which it didn’t) I still couldn’t have tolerated taking it. F 35 21 days
15 mg
9/30/2017
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 1  Depression Jetlag-like feeling for 6 days. Also brain zaps and electric jolts. Not hungry like a lot of people say. While having sex, arousal was not a problem, but I felt NOTHING while ejaculating. I mean NOTHING. A hard time waking up. Sleepy for a long time after waking up and better as day went along. But as second week began I noticed I was NOT getting any better and sleepiness was not going away, and my mood started to become worse and worse until it became unbearable and I felt "wrong", like this was actually making me much worse. Bad, bad experience. M 46 17 days
30mg 1X day
9/10/2017
 3  Insomnia Groggy in the morning.deep long sleep lasting 12 hours or more- very, very unusual for me. Unsteady a little on my feet when I had to get up to use bathroom. Hunger is a side effect. Try to reach for healthy foods. I have chronic insomnia- unable to sleep often for three nights in a row. No sleeping medication works. It is very weird that this knocks me out. I usually don't rate a medication unless I have taken it for a much longer time because you honestly can't tell what a medication is like until you give it a good trial. Since I am using this for sleep I thought this was fair to rate it now. I plan to stop for awhile. I have read other reviews and the problem w/ Remeron seems to be withdrawal,I don't want to go through that issue. It can be the worst issue with a drug ,so I will use this off and on. It works better than anything I have ever tried. F 53 2 weeks
15mg 1X day
8/24/2017
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