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 | sleep and anti-depressant | Helped me sleep when I needed help. Then, the withdrawal | This drug works if you are in the throes of a serious catastrophe. It enhances your antidepressant and helps you sleep soundly and fights anxiety (mind you, I took 1/2 of usually prescribed starting dose). Trying to get off it? PURE HELL. Sweats, tremors, suicidal thoughts, extremely high anxiety, all known side effects of withdrawal but from 7.5 MILLIGRAMS? If you need it, take it. But don't just STOP, wean yourself off very carefully. I'll never take it again. | F | 64 | 0 days 7.5 1X day | 4/29/2013 Patient History | 2 | add and dystimia | I felt I couldn't get up the next day. It was so bad I almost fell out of bed so I ended up quit taking it. I was even drowsy at work. | F | 35 | 2 days 5mg | 4/25/2013 | 5 | insomnia | Drowsiness, but that's what's intended. An hour or so after taking this med, I will want to eat lots of sour candy. You will literally eat sugar out of the bag. I do not think this has caused me any weight gain, as this effect does NOT carry over into the morning/next day. For me, it's an inducer of a mandatory midnight treat, but that's all. I am skinny by nature, and have remained so on this drug. | Give this med a chance, it's disguised as a really nasty side-effect-laden drug at first, but give it at least a week to get past it's initial nastiness to judge if it's right for you. I felt like an absolute apathetic zombie the first two days I took this med (just 15 mg at the time). It was all smooth sailing after that though. Excellent sleep med after trazodone pooped out. It takes about an hour to hit me. I still need to take an SSRI for anxiety -- the remeron alone wasn't enough. An SSRI + Remeron may be a good combination for treatment-resistant depression. Does not cause sexual dysfunction like other AD's (specifically the SSRI/SNRI class of drugs). Buproprion is the alternative (may actually be sexually enhancing). Buproprion is the antithesis of remeron in terms of sedation/stimulation though. | M | 22 | 5 years 45 mg 1X day | 4/14/2013 | 1 | Anxiety, chronic worry | Insomnia: I would fall asleep deeply for three hours, then wake up and toss and turn, awake off and on for the rest of the night. Weird, vivid dreams, some frightening, some fun. NUMBNESS/APATHY: I felt calm and not anxious at all, but I also felt totally numb. My boyfriend and I were having sex, and although I responded physically, I was so detached from him emotionally that I couldn't go through with it. We had to stop and talk out my numbness. ANGER and HOSTILITY toward my boyfriend. I was just angry and pissed at him all week, started fights and was unreasonable. Felt like I suddenly wanted to break up with him because all of his faults were intolerable and our relationship issues were not worth working through. | This drug really calmed me down and made me much less anxious. But, that was only because I felt NOTHING. I literally felt numb, and when I wasn't feeling numb, I was feeling self-righteous anger. I stopped taking it and immediately felt back to my normal self -- including anxiety, but I'd rather be anxious than a raging, destructive bitch. | F | 43 | 3 days 3.75 mg 1X day | 3/29/2013 | 5 | Anxiety/Insomnia | 1st year slight weight gain (10lbs.), lost it in year 2. No side effects anymore. | My body must have gotten used to it over time because this drug continues to help my sleep and concentration. I have taken brand tablet, brand soltab, & every generic available. I stopped for about 6 months, didn't die, but missed it. I recommend using Wiki to read about how it works. It is no worse than ssri side effects or withdrawal effects. I don't drink and every year my liver/blood is fine. 15mg a night always works & 1 last thing, brand IS stronger otherwise Teva & Greenstone are good generics. Sandoz & Auerobindo not as good IMO. | M | 37 | 12 years 15mg 1X day | 3/8/2013 | 4 | Insomnia | It knocked me out but had a difficult time waking up. Had a very hard time getting motivated to do anything the next day. Will try half tonight. | F | 51 | 1 days 30 mg | 2/24/2013 | 3 | Major depression | Tingling in feet | This medication was a lifesaver for me about14years ago. It worked for 7 years, and then pooped out!! I had to have my blood tested once a month, because many people had died on this med! | F | 40 | 7 years 100 mg 1X day | 2/16/2013 | 1 | Sleeping Aid | I am tapering off benzos and can't sleep so Dr. suggested this for sleep. Yes, it works, but horrible hangover feeling. Hostility and depressed. Just don't care - about anything and that isn't "me". | Hate this stuff and not taking it tonight. I am going to call my doctor and have a little chat with him. | F | 57 | 7 days 15mg 1X day | 1/29/2013 | 4 | Insomnia | Extreme sedation. Tired weak and clumsy the next day. | F | 24 | 7 days 15 mg | 1/15/2013 | 4 | Insomnia | Dry mouth, weight gain, nightmares. | Has helped my insomnia tremendously. | F | 50 | 1 years 7.5mg 1X day | 1/4/2013 | 1 | Depression | Dangerous drug, terrible side effects(very dry and peeling skin around the eyes, hemorrhoids, kidney problem). | STAY AWAY OF THIS DRUG! | F | 36 | 60 days 30mg 1X day | 1/4/2013 | 5 | Depression | Sedation | Best drug ever for my depression with anxiety. | M | 28 | 14 days 30 MG 1X day | 12/17/2012 | 3 | Depression | Constipation and sleepiness (I like this side effect) on 15 mg; Voracious appetite and zapped of energy on 30 mg. | I started on 15 mg of Remeron 3 weeks ago. I slept amazingly well the first night. The next day on Remeron I had this "euphoric" feeling, as though all my cylinders were firing, and I was myself - happy and free. Best.day.ever. It only lasted that day. :( I did not expect it to last and I dont' know why I had those feelings . I am not sure it is helping with my depression at 15 mg. I incresed it to 30 mg 4 days ago and it zonked me out sleep wize. It also felt drained of energy, as if I could not move all day. I took 30 mg for 2 nights and went back down to 15. I wasn't going to succumb myself to that one more day. I am not sure this med is for me, but I love it for sleep! | F | 52 | 3 weeks 15 mg/30 m 1X day | 12/7/2012 | 5 | Anxiety/PTSD/Insomnia | I know a lot of people have said this gives them nightmares ect, but in reality, they ate actually reaching REM sleep. After having insomnia, I was put on a maintenance dose, and found that the first month I did have nightmares and dreams. But this was because I was actually sleeping. It takes a while to really get the full effect. No drug is a wonder drug. Everyone's body is different. I stopped having really crazy dreams after about 3 weeks. Weight gain- well I have gained 10 lbs in a year. It does slow down your metabolism, but with proper diet and exercise, you should be fine. I am in the military and in the healthcare field,.so I was pretty well informed about the side effects. This drug, like any other is not one to be judged in a week or two. Like other antidepressants, it takes 2-6 weeks to really get your body adjusted. My advice, if it still doesn't really work after 2 months, then try something else. But give it at least that amount of time. It's worth the try. | F | 32 | 1 years 15mg | 10/22/2012 | 4 | Anxiety and Depression | Extreme sleepiness- solved after reducing dosage to 30 mg, as long as I didn't have to be up too early. Dry mouth. Oh well., I can live with that CRAZY vivid , hallucinogenic, dreams the first week, then went away. Weight gain- wight has been piling up since I started. | So, first thing: I am grateful this med is out there and was prescribed to me. It really save my life since I was unable to work, anxiety ridden, suicidal, unable to sleep or eat , exhausted and nauseous and throwing up every morning. I was also reluctant to go back to prozac and it numbed me emotionally. With this drug I got my sleep and appetite back, and the depression lifted enough that I could function- while at the same time being able to experience a normal range of emotion from sadness to joy. During this year I did have a few depressive episodes but adjusting the med helped ( I went back and forth between 15 and 45 mg with my psychiatrist's indications). It's amazing to sleep again, to eat again and not to wake up as if you're on plane that's crashing. Was able to resume yoga practice and that has also helped immensely. My main issue is I've piled up weight, and that is crashing my self-esteem, so my psychiatrist has reccommended wellbutrin. Feeling bummed I can't be off meds, but trying to take baby steps back to a place where I won't need them again. | F | 48 | 1 years 45 mg 1X day | 10/7/2012 | 3 | depression | Increased triglycerides to 550.....A VERY dangerous level.....you can get pancreatitis if you are not careful with triglicerides and that is deadly. | went off it in a month gradually and after a month (2 months since i started tapering off) I checked my triglycerides and they had gone back down to 250...............a great sign. Hope soon to have my triglycerides return to normal around 150. This drug worked initially, made me feel great for about a month.............then i would get nausea (as my triglycerides must have skyrocketed and poisoned my blood serum) occasionally. | M | 37 | 1 years 30 1X day | 10/4/2012 | 3 | sore scratchy throat | please email me if you have had a sore throat from this med. I told the doc about it and he waves it off | F | 46 | 7 days 15mg 1X day | 9/12/2012 | 5 | depression with anxiety and insomni | Finally able to fall and stay asleep. | Before taking remeron I was taking seroquel and trazodone. They did not help me sleep any PERIOD. I take Soltab at bedtime and rest a good 8 hous and do not wake. It has caused my life to become normal for once. It will make you drowsy at first in the mornings but soon goes away after about a month. I now wake refreshed and not so hungover as many meds have made me. I had not slept good in over two years due to problems from PTSD from being a retired veteran where I witnessed to black side of war. I would have nightmares when I would briefly doze off and would have the same nightmares like I was still trapped behind enemy lines. My wife is now able to sleep since I do not get up all hors of the night looking for and intruder in the yard. I shot my neighbors dog thinking it was an insurgent trying to case out my home. I spent 30 days in jail and didn'y sleep a wink and now I use a pellet gun to shoot the dogs since now I know they are only trying to see what why I am out in the yard at wee hours of the night screaming to my platoon to "take cover", 'ememy spotted 5 o'clock.... My psychotris says I should scald the dogs with hot bleach water and give them antifreeze on bread to tide them over until reinforcements can arrive. Soltab has save my life and my platoon and the neighborhood dogs if they stay out of the bait stations since they are so poor, they sometime go for the sntifreeze even though I have marked the sites with skulls and crossbones signs, but | M | 43 | 6 years 30 mg 1X day | 8/29/2012 | 1 | sleeplessness | vomiting, lack of sleep, shaking | this is the WORST medication i have ever taken i took it twice and i've been sick for a week. | M | 15 | 2 days 30 1X day | 8/25/2012 | 4 | depression/anxiety | Weight gain! 16 pounds in 5-6 weeks.Makes my sugar levels go crazy if exercise. It does help with my depression/anxiety. | M | 22 | 6 weeks 30mg | 8/9/2012 |