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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR REMERON | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | anxiety/insomnia/depression | I've been off this drug for over a year and I am still messed up. My cognition is ruined. Still have not been able to loose all the weight I gained despite running about 50 KM per week AND doing Bikram yoga. I have never been able to feel alert ever since I began taking the crap. Still dull mood and drowsy in the morning, all of which were side-effects of the medication. It took 12 months to taper down using liquid form. | If you have side effects that won't subside on this medication, consider it likely that they will become permanent (i.e. will last for years after you get off the stuff). | F | 35 | 12 months | 1/16/2010 | 5 | insomnia anxiety depression | sedation at first...quickly disappeared though | Remeron is a WONDER drug. Ask your doc for this medication. It works as well as the tricyclics but with way lower side effects. I gained more weight on Paxil than Remeron. Start at 30mg is the trick. Don't believe all the negative stuff. If you want relief get REMERON. Super anxiolytic! | F | 43 | 2 years | 1/9/2010 | 4 | gad/depression/muscle pain | a bit sleepy when first started taking.on 15mg for first 2 weeks then went up to 30 mg...got terrible munchies | so far so good still get muscle aches but not as bad ...thinking of going up to 45 mg go in a bit of a daze some times and eaisley aggitated.....gunna stick them out any 1 wont to contact me feel free.......muscle aches in neck, back and on front chest and shoulders | M | 39 | 6 weeks | 1/6/2010 | 3 | mainly depression and worry | sluggishness | I think the trick to this drug is starting at 30 mgs. I did a few days of 15 mgs and was overcome by the effects of sedation. The shrink upped the dosage and everything was better. This drug has improved my mood but not quite enough for my satisfaction. I don't feel as energized, but I've read that at higher dosages the drug is more energizing. So I am moving up in dosage to 45 mg. as of this evening. I do agree with the 30-year-old guy lower down. The weight gain is possible if you give into it. Yes, you get more cravings, but either you manage them or you don't. If you give into them, then you diet the next day. I asked my pharmacist about this. He told me no patient on this drug has complained of weight gain. There has been some talk of metabolism changes that make weight gain happen despite appetite control. I'd like to know more about this because I work out and am in good shape and don't want to lose the edge. So anyone who knows anything about this please post. Vis a vis eating, I do think the drug makes food taste better, another reason people overeat. I read in a post somewhere, not on this site I don't think, that taking remeron is the anti-depressant equivalent of smoking marijuana. It heightens the experience of eating. That said, it can be controlled. | M | 51 | 4 weeks | 1/6/2010 | 1 | bipolar depression | i was taking zispin not remeron. still mirtazapine but im not sure if the brand name makes a difference. okay where to start? i put on a nearly two stone in a month. i ate everything i could see. since im also bulimic this was a HUGE fucking problem. i started hallucinating 'grudge' type japanese ghost children in my room but was completely paralyzed and unable to do anything. i got horrible night sweats. i got dizzy. i got shakey. | I HATE THIS MEDICATION. i had the most awful time on this. i started out on 15mg the first week then up to 30mg the next week then 45mg then i screamed at the psychiatrist to take me off it because the side effects were so horrific that i was thinking about killing myself. hate it. | F | 24 | 3.5 weeks | 1/5/2010 | 5 | anxiety/depression after surgery | I had no unwanted side effects--I needed to regain my appetite and I did. I have added some pounds which I needed. | I only take 7.5 mg at bedtime. I would advise starting with this small dosage to see if it does the trick. | F | 71 | 2 months | 1/4/2010 | 4 | depression/anxiety | Glued-to-the-bed morning somnolence that goes away fast with a single cup of coffee, but it can be hard to get up sometimes. Some weight gain, perhaps 5-8 lb. over the 7 weeks I've been taking it. Not too bad given that the holidays fell in this period. I do not have the "munchies" some folks describe getting on this stuff, bur food tastes pretty good, especially sweets. I'll have to watch what I eat a bit and also work out some more. | After 7 weeks at 15 mg/day, I think this stuff is helping me, albeit in a somewhat subtle way. I have a bit more initiative and no longer automatically go into blue funks when something goes wrong or for no apparent reason at all. It has also had a significant positive impact on my anxiety, which is the larger portion of my dual diagnosis (GAD/depression) situation. In summary, I'm not dancing in the street and passing out flowers, but I feel better. I think I'll give it another month at 15mg. and if I hold steady, ask the p-doc about upping me to 22.5 or potentially 30 mg. I get the sense there is more improvement to be had and it may be dose related. But, I'll wait a bit first. | M | 58 | 7 weeks | 1/4/2010 | 5 | Major depression, anxiety | Increased appetite at 15 mg, that went away when upped to 30 mg. Morning drowsiness that wore off after a week or so of first taking it. Increased sensitivity to alcohol. | Honestly, I wish I would have taken this medication sooner- I would have spent a lot less time being anxious and depressed. The weight I gained was the weight I lost during my depression (about 5-10 lbs.) When I was upped to 30 mg, I didn't have the appetite or drowsiness like I did at 15 mg. I slept better at 15 mg, but overall I feel better now w/ 30 mg. I'm glad I didn't see these other posts before taking it or I would have been scared off. This stuff really helped me. Word to the wise: watch your alcohol intake while taking this stuff. My tolerance went out the window, now one drink is like having 2-3. Good luck! | F | 23 | 7 months | 1/3/2010 | 4 | F | 20 | 9 months | 1/3/2010 | 5 | severe anxiety and depression | very tired at first then hungry for sweets | Remeron saved my life. I had tried just about every med known to mankind, but when I was put on Remeron, my anxiety and depression were cured. I can now put things in perspective: most every problem is now managable. please try remeron. | M | 42 | 3 years | 1/2/2010 | 1 | trauma, anxiety, depression | MEGA exhaustion and mega increased muscle pain (these are two of my biggest original problems). i am ANGRY, irritable, upset, not sure i'm awake or asleep, headache, trouble eating(!!! what??) feeling out of my body and out of my head, desperate feeling of uselessness/hopelessness. | i've only been working up to my prescribed dose of 15 mg. i took half that for two days, then a full pill last night. i am taking a generic version of this drug. i haven't been this depressed in at least a decade. i feel like i'm back living with my father who caused all this in the first place. i would have called my doc earlier if i could have thought straight enough to do so. contemplating the emergency room now. haven't eaten and have hardly stopped crying ever since taking the first half dose but was trying to "let it work". i have previously taken celexa, and a bunch of anti anxiety meds like lorazepam for panic attacks, all at very low doses of about .5 mg. the anti anxiety scripts changed with the doctors prescribing, while celexa was constant for about a year (starting at lowest recommended dose, reaching highest) (would really help to have insurance AND a psych of my own at any given time, instead of a succession of pcps and clinics, half of whom don't believe in my fucking conditions, and most of whom are afraid to prescribe half the drugs at their disposal bc of addiction, which i have NEVER had a problem with...) at first they helped with panic but steadily that type of medicine started to make me feel like all my nerves were firing out through my skin and i just wanted to die. | F | 28 | 3 days | 12/22/2009 | 2 | depression | Initially I slept a lot. After I got used to it life was fine. All hell broke loose when I eased off of it. | After getting off the drug, I could not sleep well - even with xanax and ambien. It took over a year to experience 4 - 5 hours of acceptable sleep. 2 years later, I cannot sleep the night through and have a permanent sleep disorder. | M | 53 | 2 years | 12/14/2009 | 3 | Major Depressive Disorder | Hmmm, well intially this was the miracle drug. I was able to sleep like a baby, my depression was gone or at least managable, but the pounds continued to pack on. | So this is my first post and I must say that I am quite upset with myself for not checking this site 4 months ago when I began the medication for what to expect. As I stated in the otehr comments section, at first things were sweet on the drug. I was taking 30 mg at night and sleeping like a baby. Less irriated, agitated, and almost no anxiety issues. During the 1st month I was so happy to be feeling better I attributed the weight gain with all the celebrating I was doing for having my life back (this accounted for about 10-12 lbs). The second month I was still feeling good but started to get upset about the weight gain, but still attributed to other things like, being at home on stress leave for 2 months, so I began an intensive work out regimen along with diet pills to curb my appetite and began eating healthier. I've been working out for about 6 wks now and I can honestly say I've seen no change. Sometimes I even feel like I'm gaining weight. My stomach and lower back and thighs seems to have really been where the pounds have made their home and already being a thick girl this is not OK! I also have been experiencing night terrors lately. So bad that I feel like I am actually fighting the entire time Im sleep and wake up feeling exhausted. The dreams are really detailed too, and most of them are reccuring sitautions that are devastating to go through even in a dream. So after 4 months and about 2 pant sizes, I've decided to remove this drug from my body. I have | F | 28 | 4 months | 12/8/2009 | 1 | seasonal affective disorder | LAWSUIT: Permanent fat deposits; permanent muscle atrophy | IF YOU HAVE DEVELOPED PERMANENT FAT DEPOSITS AND/OR EXPERIENCED MUSCLE ATROPHY AS A RESULT OF TAKING REMERON, PLEASE EMAIL ME AT [email protected]. I AM FILING A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST THE MANUFACTURERS OF REMERON. | F | 32 | 2 months | 12/7/2009 | 2 | depression, anxiety | sedation, derealization | The sedation from this drug is ridiculous. After being on it a little while, I got these derealization effects where I would walk around in a fog completley detached from everything and everyone around me. This in-effect caused my mental anxiety to worsen since I found it so hard to fuction on this med due to feeling drugged. It also made me feel dead inside where I became completley flat/ numb and I hated that feeling. The only good things that came from this med was that it allowed me sleep and it restored my appetite at a time when I really needed both. Overall however, the bad outweighed the good so I got off. | M | 29 | 5 weeks | 12/4/2009 | 5 | insomnia | Initially, a bit drowsy first thing in the morning, but the effect wears off in an hour or so. Developed quite a sweet tooth,gained about 5 lbs. Sleep is great - better than ever. | I have taken remeron for about 5 years. It saved my bacon. Had terrible insomnia and it was the only thing that worked. I did have a brief relapse after about a year, so in desperation, I learned progressive muscle relaxation. Learning to discipline myself to do 20 mins of meditative,progressive relaxation, plus remeron (I've gone from 15mg to 7.5mg) has helped me enormously. I would say to anyone suffering through insomnia, that the combination of the drug and a little training in relaxation could bring much relief.As for the munchies,once I was sleeping well again, I got my energy back, and I started gently cycling to work everyday (major adjustment!)and walking at lunch. That has kept the weight down. For me, remeron has been a blessing.Take care and good luck. | M | 46 | 5 years | 12/2/2009 | 1 | Major Depression | Increased appetite, weight gain, insomnia, dizziness/drowsiness during the day, excessive amounts of sleep (16+ hours daily), mania | I can't stop eating sweets and carbs, I've gained 7lbs in 2 weeks after working for a year and a half to lose 25. I cant fall asleep until 5-7am (I take it at night)once I do fall asleep, I'll sleep for a good 12-13hrs and after 2hrs of being awake I pass out for another 3hrs. I'm taking ritalin which may explain the mania. I'll just get so angry for no reason that I want to punch something and just curse my head off until it goes away which sometimes I will go to bed pissed off all to hell and I can't seem to get it to go away. | F | 18 | 1 months | 12/2/2009 | 3 | depresssion and taper from zolpidem | Sleepy, day time fogginess. Minor constipation, dry mouth initially. Have gained 2-3 lb., but this may be due to Thanksgiving over indulgence. So far, no ravenous sweet tooth or other similar effects often mentioned for this med. Vivid (with a capital V) and prolific dreams, but no real nightmares | I'm taking 15mg. daily for depression/anxiety and to ease my taper from low levels of zolpidem and diazepam, (5mg every other day and 3 mg day respectively). I've only been taking it 2 weeks as of today and can't say it has helped of yet, although I do feel more placid in general. I think I may be in the transitional phase where the drug is starting to kick in as I have alternating periods of energy/clarity (new to me of late..) and pretty profound blues. I'll give it a month, by which time I should be off the Zolpidem and then re-assess with Madame Shrink. | 57 | 2 weeks | 11/30/2009 | 5 | Insomnia | PEACE OF MIND, RESTFUL SLEEP, AND INCREASED FOCUS. WHY DON'T MORE PEOPLE COMMENT ON THE POSITIVE SIDE EFFECTS OF THIS DRUG! | BEST MEDICATION OUT THERE. I SUFFER FROM SEVERE INSOMNIA AND CHRONIC DEPRESSION. I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECT OF WEIGHT GAIN AFTER READING THE POSTS. HOWEVER, I HIGHLY DOUBT THE MEDICATION ITSELF IS CAUSING THE WEIGHT GAIN. IT WILL INCREASE YOUR APPETITE BUT JUST DONT GORGE AND YOU WILL GAIN NOTHING. DOXEPIN, PAXIL, SEROQUEL, ALL MUCH WORSE FOR WEIGHT GAIN AND CAUSE BLOATING BASED ON MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH THE MEDICATIONS. I HAVE EXPERIENCED NONE OF THESE NEGATIVE SIDE EFFECTS WHILE ON REMERON.THIS IS A FREAKING WONDER DRUG. DON'T BE PUT OFF BY THE CRAZY POSTS TALKING ABOUT SEVERE WEIGHT GAIN. | M | 30 | 60 days | 11/28/2009 | 1 | Depression | FAT, FAT, FAT. Unless you need to put on an extra 20-30 lbs, this is the med for you. | When will big pharma create a depression medication that also has the properties of steroids?! Muscle instead of fat. That is my dream. With Remeron, growing fat was my nightmare! | M | 44 | 5 weeks | 11/27/2009 |