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| 4 | depression/anxiety | increased appetite. i'll sleep for 12 hours on weekend nights if i let myself. for the first few days it occasionally gave me a twitchy, "restless leg syndrome" kind of feeling. | this stuff took about a week to start working, but it helped me quite a bit. i had been experiencing deep depression which is now completely gone. i was also having anxiety problems that would keep me at home because i thought that people were "out to get me", but now going places is much easier. i often find myself in a good mood instead of being depressed/worried/anxious about ridiculous things. | M | 32 | 2 weeks | 12/7/2008 | 2 | Insomnia | Took the first pill and bam. Slept till past noon the next day, could have slept all day. Did not take does last night, too scared I wouldnt get up for work. Now I have a terrible headache. Am I supposed to take this everyday? Or just when I need it to sleep? | M | 34 | 2 days | 12/2/2008 | 3 | Generalized anxiety, insomnia | I started taking 15 mg remeron 7 weeks ago. After 4 weeks, I continued to feel physical sensations and my dose was increased to 30 mg. Physical anxiety symptoms include: feeling on edge, nervousness, jittery stomach--felt like I have a ulcer; tightness in arms-biceps; and ear ringing. (Not many people seem to complain of ear ringing.) Vivid dreams as well. Since increasing dose to 30 mg, not much has changed. Will continue the 30 mg for a while--if nothing changes, I will cut back to 15 mg. I have not experienced weight gain; seem to be a bit constipated. Look forward to your comments. | Open to receiving comments about my reaction. | M | 64 | 7 weeks | 11/23/2008 | 1 | Depression | I used Remeron back in 1997 when it first came out. After a while, whenever I took a pill I got a sensation in my arms, legs and head like all of the blood was leaving them, then rushing back in, and then leaving again, in a cycle that lasted a couple of minutes and didn't stop. Also, my vision would get blurry when the blood rushed out, then sharp again, and there were sexual problems too. It got much worse with caffeine or over the counter decongestants, and back then, marijuana, which made it much worse. I told my doctor, and he actually increased my dose. It got so bad, I was having chest pains (not accompanied by anxiety) and getting dizzy. Finally, I stopped. The symptoms NEVER WENT AWAY! I have been suffering from this problem ever since. I can't drink coffee or alcohol, or use any drug that affects blood pressure or heart rate. The cycle of blood rushing to and from my extremities occurs every minute of every hour of every day. It's been like this for 11 years. All | M | 30 | 250 days | 11/16/2008 | 1 | GAD and Mild Depression | The usual sleep like a baby effect. Hunger increased, then returned to normal. No weight gain. THIS IS IMPORTANT! This drug crashed my WBC and platelet count. After two months my energy levels crashed and I could not shake a cold. I had worked up to 30mg/day. Bloodwork confirmed the necessity of immediate Remeron cessation. Lots of fun that week. Freaky, but dangerous side effect. CHECK YOUR BLOOD WHILE USING THIS MEDICATION! | I encourage all patients using Remeron to get a CBC at least once a month. Get happy, stay healthy. | M | 49 | 3 months | 11/16/2008 | 4 | Depression, Social Anxiety Disorder | Appetite WAY increased. Very, very sluggish feeling when I first started taking it. If you don't take it before midnight you will easily sleep past noon (that is if it isn't crucial that you be awake the next morning). Weight gain was not an issue. | This drug finally did what it was supposed to do. Made me not depressed, and have a normal affect. I must say it is quite a change, and it is worth the side effects. It also prevents you from craving to get fucked up. That is miraculous. I can't drink at all, and I sure as hell don't want to. If you do drink you will not like the way you feel, and you will not drink again. | M | 20 | 1 years | 11/15/2008 | 3 | GAD | \at first you feel kind of sleepy in the day,but that gets better after a week, nice appetite after about 2 weeks. great sleep, had insomnia. Gas pains all the time though. anyone else have the bad gas pains 24/7. I think it is the lactose in the pill, lactose intolerant here. | On 15 mg at first it made you feel very tired the first few days, but you sleep so darn good a straight 8 hours, took about 2 weeks for appetite to kick in, but that only lasted about 5 months. I gained 25 pounds in 5 months but have lost 5 since. been on it 10 months now and don't have much of an appetite at all anymore, and need ativan to sleep with it. Tried 30 mg. but that made me so anxious feeling. Plus even on the 15 mg.s seems I always have bad gas pains in my stomach, I am lactose intolerant and lactose is one of the ingredients so that could be it. I am hoping the appetite comes back again, Irather enjoyed eating for a while I did need to gain weight since the year before I lost 15 pounds due to constant nausea from anxiety.That is why I tried remeron. Have tried Lexapro, zoloft and celexa all made me feel quite sick to my stomach expecially Lexapro. If my appetite would come back and these constant gas pains would leave it would be great, I felt wonderful for a good 6 | F | 48 | 10 months | 11/14/2008 | 3 | prevernt depression recurrence | sedation at low starting dose; that remitted rapidly. increased appetite and some weight gain, but nothing alarming. when i went to 30 mg at bedtime, i noticed restless leg syndrome on/off for several weeks. also, i ran out and was off for 3 days before starting back (tapering). the 2nd day off i experienced very unsettling sense of anxiety/restlessness, feeling cold/chilled, and bilateral temporal headache which did not respond to anti-inflammatories. important lesson learned -- abrupt cessation doesn't feel good. as for its therapeutic effects--i guess now bad news is good news. i have been depression free for over one year and contine to take the med for a preventive basis. | M | 45 | 1 years | 11/11/2008 | 2 | depression, insomnia | Insatiable hunger and weight gain, spaced out and cognitively impaired, impossible to get out of bed, limpid and emotionally out of it. | I've been on this before without any noticable effect on my state of mind; now given a higher dose (45 mg) since I have severe insomnia as well as a sad and depressed feeling. However, I really don't like the extreme hunger and have relapsed into binging after 10 years without such symptoms. I don't find it any easier to fall asleep than before, but I sleep really long and don't care to get out of bed. I seem to care less about life's issues and have trouble thinking (which could be connected to the fact that I was given gabapenthine as well). These symptoms would indeed keep me depressed so I would rather be without this medicine! | F | 43 | 16 days | 11/11/2008 | 4 | depresion,sleep,Gad,appetite | Super Vivid and Upseting dreams | I have been using Remeron for 7 years constantly. It works very well for GAD, Sleep, and decreasing the "sick" feeling associated with depression. But, the dreaming that accompanies remeron is untolerable. Just recently i figured out a solution: I take my full (30 mg) dose of remeron and 30mg of cymbalta at night before bed (hour or so before). Even though the cymbalta is a stimulant, its properties combinen with rem to give nice sleep with less intense/crazy dreams. Dream recall is also lessened with this combo. I also have lung trouble. But the remeron does not intefer with breathing. | M | 38 | 7 years | 11/10/2008 | 2 | depression, anxiety, insomnia | Weight gain. Was somewhat sedating at first, but it wore off quickly. | F | 35 | 4 months | 11/3/2008 | 2 | major depression, panic attacks,etc | i have gained alot of weight, i crave salty stuff really, really bad and it is not helping me to stay asleep any longer. i do have very vivid bad and strange dreams when i do sleep. however it does help the depression somewhat along with my buspar. | i have a lung disease and am told they cannot up my dosage, i am on 15 mg now, because of the sedative effect it has and they are affraid i will stop breathing, but it has never had that much effect on me in a bad way like some of you have described here. it has made me a little woosy and unsure footed but that's about it all for the sedative effect. has anyone with breathing problems ever taken 30 mg of this? and if so how did it effect you? please e-mail me and let me know. | F | 49 | 1 years | 10/31/2008 | 4 | Despression from wife dying | carbohydrate cravings | 1st - this drug will get you through the deepest, darkest parts of your life. 2nd - It will help you sleep. 3rd - It will help you eat. However, as your depression subsides, you will crave sugar enough to eat it directly out of a bag with a spoon. Minor side effect, in my opinion, compared to the wonder of the drug. | M | 39 | 6 months | 10/28/2008 | 5 | anxiety | Started initial dose of 7.5 mg at bedtime. Sedative effect was immediate, but very groggy when I (finally) got up the next morning. Noticeable increase in appetite after a few days. Pdoc increased dosage to 15 mg, and that relieved some of the over-sedation. 2 weeks later we increased to to 22.5 mg. I sleep very well (night time anxiety and and insomnia were 2 of my major initial symptoms). I have now been on Remeron for about 2 months, and at 22.5 mg for about a month. Noticeable, but manageable increase in appetite. I have not gained any weight. No other side effects. | I began haven severe anxiety attacks about a year ago, following a very painful, prolonged, and complicated kidney stone attack. I would wake up around 3 AM in a state of extreme anxiety, and not be able to go back to sleep. I also had some severe periods from time to time during the day. I got so bad at times that I took all the guns out of my house and stored them at my son's house. Working with both my family doc and a psych doc, I tried Xanax, diazepam, zoloft, Buspar and Geodon. Contrary to generally accepted belief, I develop tolerance to the anxiolytic effect of benzos, and had to keep increasing dosage to maintain relief. Buspar is helpful, but not strong enough to give any lasting relief It would last about 3 hours after each dose. I was up to the max recomended dose of 60 mg/day. Geodon was so sedating, I couldn't function until late morning, and even then was a little out of it. And I didn't want to keep increasing my benzo usage. So my psych put me on Remeron. | M | 66 | 2 months | 10/27/2008 | 1 | Anxiety Disorder, Severe Depression | About a week into taking the meds, I started having severe chest pain. It hurt so bad that I stopped breathing on some occasions. It was incredibly painful to do things such as laughing and deep breathing. Also, while taking Remeron, I started eating continuously. If it had been up to me, I would have never quit eating. My appetite had already been already healthy, and I have a fast metabolism, but the pills made me gain over 15 lbs in a week. | I contacted the doctors that prescribed the pills to me. They automatically took me off of it, and in 5 days, I had lost 7 lbs. My chest still hurts painfully after a few weeks of being without it, but I can deal with it, as long as I'm not put back on the meds. | F | 14 | 3 weeks | 10/27/2008 | 2 | Depression, insomnia, anxiety | It changed over time. At first, felt spaced out and groggy, hard to focus/concentrate. It did NOT help me sleep better but gave me very vivid almost 3-D dreams. it immediately increased my appetite when before I had had none and gotten skinny; I gained a few pounds while on it because I began to eat normally again. As time wore on I noticed an extreme startle reaction to sound (such as phone ringing or my name being called) and that sounds seemed disturbingly much louder. Then, I found that my anxiety became WORSE and I started to feel "drugged" more of the time. I also experienced visual afterimages which despite stopping the drug months ago I still have. This disturbs me and I wonder if they'll ever go away. | I was on 30 mg and wonder if it might have been OK if they'd prescribed a lower dose. Remeron did in fact improve my depression. As it is, I started hating it and tapered myself off. I am now on a low dose of Prozac and have no side effects -- a totally different animal. | F | 49 | 4 weeks | 10/25/2008 | 4 | Bipolar/Borderline | Drowsiness, dizziness, nausea, tingling, hypersensitivity to sudden sounds, increased appetite | Taking Remeron 45mg with Abilify 10mg. Most side effects wore off after a while. I'm feeling pretty good aside from the lingering drowsiness and a slight sensitivity to sound. Have put on a modest amount of weight so I switched to diet coke and try to moderate what I eat. | M | 27 | 5 months | 10/22/2008 | 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 | 4 | anxiety due to family tragedy | Weight gain (always hungry) lethagy - (find exercising in the morning a problem as can't get going), fluid retention/urinary retention, raised cholesterol (?from Avanza) constipation, very dry mouth and dry burning eyes | Medication worked immediately - intense sweating totally ceased after one dose. Felt calm and removed from the situation after a few doses. Cured my insomnia. Weight gain & urinary retention the main problems - I'm just starting to ween myself off slowly and will see how I go. Would certainly use it again if needed. | F | 61 | 17 months | 10/18/2008 | 3 | depression/insomnia | drowsiness and fatigue. dry mouth, increased appetite, especially after taking the pill. difficulty concentrating. weight gain, about 30 pounds. very agitated when hungry, aggressive thoughts. | after switching from Cipralex, I found remeron helped me a lot more. My mood improved, and became more interested in being around people and activities. am now able to feel good about myself, but still experience mood swings and feel depressed. I was able to sleep, and helped my insomnia. However, not a good long term medication because it makes me very thirsty and hungry (and become uncomfortable and irritable when im hungry) also dislike the weight gain of 30 pounds. | F | 24 | 6 days | 10/15/2008 |