Reviews for REMERON18 ratings: (taken because of ocd)Edit Filter | Clear FilterCompare REMERON with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR REMERON | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 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 | 5 | PPD, PPA & PPOCD | I've experienced restless legs a couple of nights but nothing I couldn't deal with. I've noticed I eat a lot more. Few headaches, dry mouth | Before taking remeron i was unable to eat,sleep or go 10 minutes without having a panic attack. I also was experiencing intrusive thoughts for the first time in my life. Remeron has helped me tremendously! | F | 27 | 6 weeks 30 mg | 10/24/2016 | 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 | 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 | 2 | anxiety, ocd | exteme sedation, very lethargic, groggy the next day | This is the official drug of sleepy-bye land! It will seriously knock your lights out within an hour of taking it. And then you will sleep! Seems like a good choice for a panic attack, since it is so sedating. | M | 30 | 1 days 7.5 1X day | 7/22/2010 | 5 | OCD Treatment | Extreme exhaustion about 2 hrs after taking it, all-day tiredness for the first two weeks I started it, slight confusion, vivid dreams, increased appetite | I love this medication, it has been wonderful for me. Before I was on it, I was underweight due to constant stomachaches everytime I tried to eat (This was caused by anxiety) and I could not sleep, again due to anxiety. The OCD was interfering with my life on a daily basis; I couldnt eat at restraunts, fast food, or even friend's houses out of fear of getting food poisoning, I was germaphobic, and the obsessions/compulsions caused a huge ammount of anxiety. After taking Remeron, almost all of that dissappeared. I gained weight (Though it leveled out quickly and I've weighed a steady 130 lbs for years now) the anxiety was gone, and I could sleep. I still have some lingering loop-thoughts, but the compulsions are pretty much gone and I'm not dictated by irrational fears anymore. Remeron has worked wonders in treating OCD! | F | 18 | 8 years 15 mg 1X day | 7/14/2010 | 4 | Depression, Anxiety, OCD | The two major side effects of this drug have been listed here ad nauseam: increased appetite and sleepiness. When you start this drug you will be an outright zombie for the first week or two, or at least that was my experience. If you have a job that requires you to be coherent in any way, best of luck to you. Thankfully for me I was between jobs. This intense zombie like period passes but I am still having difficulty getting up in the morning. Some people have said that moving from 15mg to 30mg helped lessen the desire to sleep in but I haven't found that to be the case. With respect to the eating: I considered myself lucky at first since I didn't notice either a change in weight or a change in appetite. Over time though I started to realize that my appetite had in fact grown quite a bit. Most of it is mindless eating and you don't realize at all that you're doing it, which might explain why some people say they've gained weight without changing eating habits (not saying it's impossib | Despite the negative side-effects, Remeron has been a surprisingly good drug. Interestingly it never seems to be a first line drug for OCD or anxiety and yet both have been very well managed by the med. I've tried everything including Wellbutrin (increased anxiety and OCD), Effexor (sweat like a maniac, zero libido), Luvox & Zoloft (both worked for anxiety to some degree but had memory problems on both and sexual side effects were not tolerable) and Celexa (sweating, sexual side effects). Needless to say there is always a trade off with these medications but if you're a man in your mid-30s, the sexual side-effects can be particularly hard to live with. I have found Remeron to be relatively free of any of the usual SSRI sweating / libido / cognitive & memory inducing side effects. I'll check back up on this board in a few months to give it a final verdict. If I haven't ballooned into a fat slob, I'll give this one an A. | M | 37 | 2.5 months 30MG 1X day | 3/12/2010 | 3 | severe depression and ocd | 10 pound weight gain; always craving food; rage; restless leg syndrome | I gained ten pounds after a month and even though I ran everyday and competed in 10ks I could not lose it. After 4 months of taking it I got uncontrollable restless legs which made me so miserable I had to quit. That was on 45mg. | F | 15 | 4 months | 7/19/2009 | 1 | anxiety, panic disorder, OCD | disassociation, agoraphobia, inability to process information and to do simple every day tasks without thinking too hard; short term memory loss; irritability; disorientation; worsening of OCD and that's only a few! | didn't work for me at all. After being on it for only 6 days, getting off it was a nightmare. Lost sleep for days, the thinking couldn't clarify for weeks! I tried it twice, the first time i was combining it with some other drug and thought that it could be interaction. But when i tried it the second time on its own, the side effects were exactly the same only worse. | F | 32 | 6 days | 5/22/2009 | 2 | OCD, GAD, PTSD | Dry mouth, leg pain, sleepiness (all minor, not a problem) | I was diagnosed with anxiety disorders in 1990. Docs gave me the usual SSRIs but I couldn't take them without unmanageable side effects. Lexapro almost sent me to the ER. I was put on Remeron (with 2mg Ativan) one and a half months ago. I have had only the slightest of beneficial effects, so slight that it's almost not even worth the effort of opening the bottle for my next dose. But the pamphlet said 4-6 weeks before I might notice anything beneficial, so I'll give it another three weeks, which is when I see my psychiatrist again. If there is still no enhanced effect, I'll let the doc know and request to go on a benzodiazapine (Xanax, Valium, Ativen, etc.) till further notice. In the 18 years I've had these anxiety problems, the benzos have been the only thing that has worked. As of right now I am ambivalent about Remeron. I'll check back with this list in a few weeks and let you know if there have been any changes. | M | 51 | 1.5 months | 10/19/2008 | 5 | Anxiety, Depression, OCD | Increased hunger Will take you to sleep easily. | I was sick of SSRI's and there funny effects so I tried this one. Your first time you take this you will be extremely tired (can't stress that enough) so this is certainly one you take before bed and not in the morning. This drug should especially be tried by people looking to gain weight or have trouble eating. It helped make me really happy again and I hadn't been that way in a long time and it made me 'destroy' my depression and anxiety and want to do things again. This is a great anti-depressant I can't see why this isn't entrily adopted to replace SSRI's. Great for people having trouble getting to sleep as well. I hope that this keeps up. | M | 24 | 4 weeks | 9/18/2008 | 1 | Anxiety, Depression, OCD | This drug reversed the delayed orgasm side effect of Lexapro, which in my case was a bad thing, but may be something worth pursuing with your doctor if delayed orgasm presents a problem for you. | No effect on my anxiety, depression, or OCD. However, I should note that this was the 20th psychiatric medication I have tried. | M | 23 | 2 months | 8/8/2008 | 4 | anxiety, trouble sleeping, ocd | almost nothing: no weight gain, no obstipation. A little bloating sometimes. But one time a forgot to take my dose at eveneing so i took it the next morning and i was craving for sweets and snacks at night. So that might be where the weight gain comes from, for some people | 30 mg helps me sleep for 5 hours non-stop and when i wake at night i'm not suffering anxiety anymore. My mood is so much better. The ocd is less intense, bearable. And with the help of cbt i think it will be gone soon. | F | 37 | 6 weeks | 6/28/2007 | 4 | Anxiety/Panic Disorder/OCD | Weight gain, drowsiness/lethargy, extremely vivid (but helpful!) dreams. | I'm only on week ONE taking 30mg Remeron/night. In addition I currently take 150 mg Effexor and 1 mg Klonopin daily. Before Remeron, I was taking 225 mg of Effexor and it was causing horrible side effects - sexual dysfunction, horrible heartburn/nausea. Now I plan to drop the Effexor almost entirely, and I don't even feel the need to use benzos as I once did! I've been on almost every one of the big name antidepressants with various combos. I even tried Seroquel. This is the first time I've reviewed a medicine because I think there is serious potential here. I plan to write another review if anything changes. Crossing my fingers! | M | 25 | 7 days | 6/18/2007 | 4 | OCD, IBS, Anxiety | I have irritable bowel syndrome, and the Remeron really helped my stomach. I have had normal bowel movements since starting this drug, where I was having stomach upsets daily before. Remeron is also an antihistamine, and my allergies have improved since starting Remeron. I have gained 15 lbs in 4 months, and I have intense cravings for sweets. (because of my IBS I was very underweight though, so the weight gain was a good thing. My OCD and anxiety has gotten a lot better. All the compulsions and obsessions I previously had are 90% gone.I am on 22.5 mg qhs. I have been having very vivid dreams though, and a lot of nightmares. My husband has woken me up quite a few times because I made so much noise during my sleep that I woke him up. | You will gain weight. You will most likely get constipated, but you sure will be a lot happier. | F | 27 | 4 months | 5/1/2007 | 3 | Depression, OCD, Anorexia | Extreme weight gain, extreme sugar cravings, inappropriate laughter | My doctor prescribed remeron to help me deal with major depression, OCD, and anorexia. It helped incredibly with the depression...but the cravings for sugar were horrible. It would make me go on sugar binges that lasted for days--I literally ate brown sugar out of the bag and whole bags of chocolate a day. I quickly gained 70 pounds in just 4 months! I developed horrible edema from the water retention and started an extreme exercise program--walking 4 miles a day and eating only 1,400 calories a day. The weight still would not come off and continued to increase in smaller amounts. Besides the weight gain, I found myself laughing hysterically in inapprpriate situations. (Like if the dog would chew up something at my mom's house, I thought it was hilarious). I stopped taking it because with my eating disordered past the weight gain just eventually made me even more depressed. I've been off it for almost a week and already the sugar cravings are gone and I feel better and more awake than | F | 25 | 18 months | 4/29/2007 | 3 | mild sleep disorder/ GAD, OCD | mild weight gain, sleepiness ( that was what it was supposed to do)Out of body feeling | Remeron helped my sleep somewhat- anything is better that what it was, but it hasnt helped my anxiety or OCD. In fact, I made the OCD worse and my temper shorter. I will be on 15 mg at night with an addition of a low dose Effexor in the morning. | F | 31 | 16 days | 2/10/2005 | 1 | OCD | At first I slept so soundly I could hardly wake up in the morning, even after eight or nine hours of sleep. That side effect went away, but the increased appetite didn't. I did my best to control food intake, but still gained weight, and felt unbelievably bloated. It made me depressed! Once I went off, the weight fell off too, thankfully. | Remeron would be an excellent tool for an actor who needed to gain weight quickly for a role. | F | 34 | 60 days | 4/2/2004 |
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. (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA) FDA Approval Date: 1997-03-17