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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR REMERON | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | panic, depression | When I 1st started taking it I was so dizzy I had to hold on to the walls to walk from my bedroom to the bathroom. That eventually balanced out and stopped. It made me sleep from 12 to 14 hrs a day. And i gained 40 lbs but I was skinny and needed it. I had very strange or vivid dreams. But it helped me majorly with my panic attacked and depression.. It well worth it to me. | not covered my many insurance companies and is extremely expensive. | M | 35 | | 9/13/2006 | 1 | depression | Sleepy, sleepy, sleepy!! Lack of coordination (literally bumping into walls), did nothing for my depression after having been on 30 mg. for 2 months. This drug is a wasteful nightmare (unless you enjoy having your body disconnected from your head). | STAY CLEAR OF THIS DRUG!!! | M | 48 | 2.5 months | 9/5/2006 | 3 | major depressive disorder | vivid abnormal dreams, constantly hungry, very very spacey feeling, constantly tired, hand tremors, increased sweating. | what i have noticed so far about this is that somebody will say my name to get my attention, and have to say it about five times before yelling it, and then i finally notice. i feel spaced out all day long, and not really 'with it', but at least i am too spacey to feel suicidal. also i am hungry ALL the time. | F | 26 | 3 weeks | 8/25/2006 | 2 | sleep | F | 8 months | 8/22/2006 | 4 | anxiety depression | every night I eat out the refrigerator and any thing in sight to eat. Have gained weight signifigantly. | be very careful taking this medication. The reason I say this is that I had a horrifying experience when I ran out on a Friday and thought I would have to wait til Monday. Never ever ever discontinue doses or try to skip doses ------it will drive you to the edge. Believe me I will never let this happen agian! | M | 51 | 3 months | 8/14/2006 | 2 | poor sleep and concentr , confusion | EXTREME difficulties getting up in mornings, (seemed to have gotten worse with lower dosages), heavy daytime fatigue, (at lower dosages?). At normal dosages seemed to cause high increase in blood pressure with probably corresponding fevers | I have complete quadreplegia at the C6-C7 level. My Doctor gave this med after I told him that I was having trouble with sleep, lots of confusion and poor concentration. (I don't feel I'm depressed, though.)I took the med for a few monthes at normal dosage and only remember it helping me get to sleep once without also having to take sleeping pills with it. My sleep was still distrubted with many wake ups during the night. As a quadreplegic, I tend to have quite low blood pressures. This med seemed to increase my blood pressure a lot and thus probably was cause of my fevers. My doctor then started lowering the dosage. After a certain time and dosage, it would start to make me tired a while after taking it, but I still couldn't sleep with it alone. At this low dosage, I would feel EXTREMELY tired in mornings and have a very hard time getting up, even though my blood pressure tended to be higher in the morning than usual. During the day I tended to feel fatigued, despite above average blo | M | 33 | 3 months | 8/13/2006 | 4 | Severe depression/anxiety | Weight gain (I was nearly 20 pounds underweight to begin with), drowsiness, "blobby" feeling until about noon, low energy level, mild coordination problems, slight hand tremor. | I have been on and off Remeron for the past five years. SSRIs (Prozac, Paxil, etc.) had disastrous side effects on me. "Yo-yoing" with a drug, such as Remeron, THAT REALLY HELPS YOU is a very bad practice. I would gain weight and discontinue Remeron due to the fact that I'm anorexic, even though my depression/anxiety practically disappeared and I felt more normalcy in my life. Remeron is a drug that lifted me out of a deep depression. It's just important to STICK WITH IT and allow it to work because depression not only affects us, but it's also hard on our families and friends. Lastly, don't think that just because someone described a side effect of Remeron (or any drug) that it will have the same effect on you. I wish everyone the very best, and hope that this posting was helpful. | M | 47 | 3 months | 8/6/2006 | 4 | depression, anxiety | weight gain. lots. vivid dreams. sleepiness. | I was hospitalized after cutting and trying to kill myself numerous times. I was put on Remeron after being on a skew of other antidepressents(paxil, celexa, wellbutrin and more).Remeron has helped me through that time in my life and i'm almost off of it now. But it didnt come without a cost. I've gained about 60lbs on it... 15 of which i've lost since. | F | 21 | 40 months | 8/4/2006 | 5 | Enxiety, depression and sleep apnea | A bit hungry, have to do lots of exercise to keep weight off but is worth it. A little dizzy and some relapses of enxiety but not as bad as before.Sometimes I get a little lost,I draw a blank for about 1 minute. | Works great for me. It helps me sleep which i need since I use a Cpap Apnea mask.My depression is gone, My enxiety is down 50%.I can still have sex. | M | 36 | 2 years | 8/2/2006 | 3 | Insomnia/Depression | Weight GAIN..big time! I gained 15-20 lbs on my petite 111bls frame. Also had some bad side effect this go-round that I didn't the last time I took this. It made me swell in my ankles, feet, and fingers(face too) water weight it looked like.when I woke up I felt tight all over. Also did not ever have a migraine until the last day I took remeron. I never get headaches. BP was through the roof when checked. Pulsating pounding headache that only exedrin migraine would keep in check. So dibilitating it made me want to crawl out of my body, was so painfull! | Will never touch this stuff again, did not agree with me this time around, last time taken worked perfectly. Puzzling, but Im not going to mess around with it, that headache is a day I will NEVER forget! | F | 28 | 1 months | 8/1/2006 | 3 | ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION | SLEPT VERY GOOD AFTER STARTING REMERON. BEEN ON THIS MEDICATION ABOUT 2 YEARS AND HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED.SLEEP IS POOR AT BEST.EXTREME PAIN IN MY JOINTS,NUMBNESS IN MY HANDS AND FINGERS.ANGER AND SLIGHTLY PARANOID.MY KNEES ARE SO BAD THAT I AM NOW STARTING TO WEEN OFF OF THIS MEDICATION.WORKED WELL FOR A GOOD PEROID OF TIME. | I WOULD RECOMEND IT FOR A PEROID OF TIME,BUT NOT MORE THAN A YEAR.I WAS ALSO ON WELLBUTRIN AND ATIVAN WHICH MADE THE REMERON MORE TOLERABLE. | M | 59 | 2 years | 7/24/2006 | 2 | Anxiety | Realistic open-eye visual hallucinations, spacy feeling, sleepiness | I had to stop taking this medication. Unless I went to bed right after taking my dose, I would begin to hallucinate and stay awake to watch things that weren't there. It was very entertaining. About 10 minutes after ingestion, I'd begin to see wispy smoke. This smoke would become more fluid, change colors, and take shape. Blinking my eyes did nothing. Moving did nothing. I stoped reality testing and simply observed. To determine if the effect was my own, I handed out five of my remaining pills at a party. Each and every one of the individuals that took them were seeing things by the end of the night. No joke. Some alcohol was involved by some, but not everyone. Remeron makes you feel good, I think, because it gets you very high. Mushrooms and LSD are also rumored to make you feel good and get you very high. I'd caution anyone who doesn't think they can handle percieving things that aren't there. If the idea of an open-eyed dream scares you, then stay away from this substan | M | 23 | 10 days | 7/24/2006 | 4 | Severe depression, anxiety,insomnia | First few days extremely drugged. Strange electric shock reactions to loud sounds or fast movements. Blurry vision. All of this went away within a couple of weeks. Now I dont' notice anything except that it is easier to fall asleep. | This drug lifted me out of the pit of despair, though not all the way out. My doc wants me to add an SSRI because she says Remeron is a little weak on the serotonin. I'm grateful that its given me a way to function to a certain degree, but it's not a happy pill. I would say it took me from severely to moderately depressed without any real downside. | F | 44 | 3 months | 7/17/2006 | 5 | Depression ; Anxiety... | Vivid dreams maybe?? Other than that, none. I love it. | I started on remeron after trying several SSRIs and experiencing no relief. With the remeron, im on a high dosage of 60mg daily but like i said, no side effects that ive noticed. Its really helped with the depression and some of the anxiety. Remeron is a very clean drug. I like it alot. | M | 20 | 1 months | 7/15/2006 | 5 | Major Depression | Weight gain of 50 lbs... 25 of which I needed to have gained. I ALWAYS need more sleep, at least 14 hours a day and maybe a nap in between. It is very hard for me to wake up for work and school, but I have adjusted. 30 minutes after I take it, I get REALLY hungry, usually for sweets. | I love this medicine; however, I do not thinkg I could go to sleep without it or live my life without it. In a way, that is unsettling because no one wants to feel they 'have' to take a medicine just to sleep or be happy. Hope this was helpful... Remeron has really helped me and even though there are some negative side effects, being happy outweighs those any day. | F | 21 | 5 years | 6/30/2006 | 4 | Anxious depression | I took this when I was 21-22 years old. About a half hour after I took it, nothing in the world could keep me awake. I had to sleep at least 10 hours, 12 was better. I ate relentlessly--I would wake up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and grab 5 cookies on the way back to bed. It was the most fun 20 pounds I ever gained. If something startled me it felt like a full-body electric shock, with afterwaves that lasted several seconds. I was relaxed and content but pretty out of it, detached and indifferent. | I decided to stop taking it because I got an offer for a real job with responsibilities (instead of the menial job I had been working before)and I knew I couldn't function at that high of a level while taking Remeron. Also the depression had started to creep back. If I was ever at the end of my rope again, I would consider taking Remeron again, because for anxious depression it was an incredibly powerful drug. Incidentally, Wellbutrin helped reverse the weight gain. | F | 26 | 3 months | 6/26/2006 | 4 | anxiety/panic attacks and insomnia | Weight gain, dry mouth | I have been taking this drug for 5 years. It saved my life. Great at 15mg and 30mg, but when I go up to 45mg It's a nightmare. The SSRI component kick s in pretty harsh at that point. I'm on 15mg right now and thinking I need to go up to 30 because of some depression and increased anxiety. I'm hopeful at this point that I just need an increase in dosage and that the drug has not stopped working on me. The side effects have been worth it for me. | F | 35 | 5 years | 6/21/2006 | 4 | anxiety/panic attacks and insomnia | Weight gain, dry mouth | I have been taking this drug for 5 years. It saved my life. Great at 15mg and 30mg, but when I go up to 45mg It's a nightmare. The SSRI component kick s in pretty harsh at that point. I'm on 15mg right now and thinking I need to go up to 30 because of some depression and increased anxiety. I'm hopeful at this point that I just need an increase in dosage and that the drug has not stopped working on me. The side effects have been worth it for me. | F | 35 | 5 years | 6/21/2006 | 2 | anxiety (off-label use) | extreme fatiue, carb cravings, significant weight gain, constipation, sex dreams every night, orgasms so intense i thought i would pass out. | as soon as the psychiatric effects kick in, i lost the sexual side effects. also, i found my self feeling more depressed than ever. | F | 28 | 4 days | 6/7/2006 | 1 | Sleep related | Sleepy! sleepy! sleepy! Felt like I was in a living coma. Couldn't wake up, felt tired after getting up in the morning. Low libido, no sexual desire immediataly after taking this pill. Constant state of numbness. Slept great! Just wanted to do it all the time. | Upon taking my first pill I felt I was in a DRUG STUPOR. I loved the sleep I was experiencing ... didn't even get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night! Had to STOP TAKING THIS MEDICATION after three days, my life was passing me by and I slept all day and couldn't wait to go back to bed at night. Still AFTER STOPPING THIS MEDICATION, I'M EXPERIENCING DRUG HANGOVER! I hate it! I don't even want to plant flowers!! I still wake up wanting to go back to bed. I have no sexual appetite. I've gained weight in two days and crave sweets. This would be a great drug for anyone who wants to sleep, gain weight and not have sex. I want more than that in life and will tackle my issues on my own. I will never take this drug again. My husband is on Paxil and climaxing is a thing of the past (so far) these drugs are robbing us of our passion and zest for life. It isn't all about sleep I guess. I always thought if I could get a good nights sleep, all would be better. I think I need more | F | 45 | 3 days | 6/4/2006 |