1 hour ago, The Dust said:

Thanks, I can say something similar. Pain in that area is worse during waking up.

And If you eat something does it become better? Or drink?

No- it seems nerve related , not gi

Ok. Is it better in the evening?

Thinking about you as always @Finni, keep enduring 💪🏼⚔️

Thank you @SarahMc

So every time I touch mirtazapine and make any sort of change, I start getting even more reactive to it

So now I’ve really painted myself into this horrible corner where I’m having to deal with a lot of pain and aka

It’s definitely dose related. I have a lot of ramping up after I take it and then horrible distress for the first part of the next day.

1 hour ago, Finni said:

So every time I touch mirtazapine and make any sort of change, I start getting even more reactive to it

So now I’ve really painted myself into this horrible corner where I’m having to deal with a lot of pain and aka

It’s definitely dose related. I have a lot of ramping up after I take it and then horrible distress for the first part of the next day.

I’m sorry Finni, that sounds awful. I’ll be really interested to hear what Adele thinks. It may be a tough road out of this but we’re here for you all the way.

10 hours ago, Finni said:

Worst pain drilling/boring solar plexus into back

Pressurized

So sorry Finni, lots of healing your way, keep on going 🤍

Hey @Finni sending some love.xxxx

On 3/29/2026 at 4:20 AM, Lighty said:

either way, as long as you keep your dose consistent (same weight if using scale), you will slowly stabilize.

try to remember it's only physical symptoms and you are just sick, it's easy to make the issues big in our mind, and imagine the symptoms as this crazy beast, it's good to practice on visualizing the symptoms as a far away, tiny, quiet thing that isn't that scary (NLP technique, obviously I'm simplyfing the technique cause im not doing a full therapy session haha)

Do you practice NLP?

Hey @Finni decided to pop by and ask how youre doing today

20 minutes ago, Some0n3 said:

Hey @Finni decided to pop by and ask how youre doing today

How kind of you ❤️

I’m having a really rough day with really intense head pressure and pressure annd electricity all over my body. Very cold turkey withdrawal-like quality.

Feels unbearable, but I know I’m going to make it through.

47 minutes ago, Finni said:

How kind of you ❤️

I’m having a really rough day with really intense head pressure and pressure annd electricity all over my body. Very cold turkey withdrawal-like quality.

Feels unbearable, but I know I’m going to make it through.

So sorry to hear that.. it sounds awful.. sending lots of hugs and support! Have you found anything that could alleviate the symptoms or do you have to ride it out?

9 minutes ago, Some0n3 said:

So sorry to hear that.. it sounds awful.. sending lots of hugs and support! Have you found anything that could alleviate the symptoms or do you have to ride it out?

Too afraid to try anything

Riding it out

28 minutes ago, Finni said:

Too afraid to try anything

Riding it out

Thats totally understandable. Youre strong and you will make it through!

3 hours ago, Finni said:

Do you practice NLP?

No, I don't, I did a basic course a bit of a while ago, I don't remember much at this point.

17 hours ago, Finni said:

How kind of you ❤️

I’m having a really rough day with really intense head pressure and pressure annd electricity all over my body. Very cold turkey withdrawal-like quality.

Feels unbearable, but I know I’m going to make it through.

Sending some love Finni, so brave and such an amazing mindset xxxxx

Sending some love @Finni I hope you are a bit better today 🤍

I don’t know what my body is doing, but I’m scared out of my mind

I’ve never felt so much pressure or electricity or terror in my poor body.

Goes on for hours and hours and hours

I thought surely I would’ve settled by now. It’s been 30 days since tiny disruption.

Huge, huge fallout. I’m so so sad because when I look back, I can see that I was starting to stabilize.

25 minutes ago, Finni said:

I don’t know what my body is doing, but I’m scared out of my mind

I’ve never felt so much pressure or electricity or terror in my poor body.

Goes on for hours and hours and hours

I thought surely I would’ve settled by now. It’s been 30 days since tiny disruption.

Huge, huge fallout. I’m so so sad because when I look back, I can see that I was starting to stabilize.

I’ve had to hold my dose twice and for months at a time. Symptoms intensified both times and then one day they were gone. Symptoms each time were completely different. You will eventually stabilise @Finni and I know how scary and painful it can be. Remember acceptance and allowing will help us not intensify the symptoms . I really feel for you. It can seem never ending.

2 minutes ago, Catbird said:

I’ve had to hold my dose twice and for months at a time. Symptoms intensified both times and then one day they were gone. Symptoms each time were completely different. You will eventually stabilise @Finni and I know how scary and painful it can be. Remember acceptance and allowing will help us not intensify the symptoms . I really feel for you. It can seem never ending.

Are you starting to settle again?

Thank you 💗

1 hour ago, Finni said:

I don’t know what my body is doing, but I’m scared out of my mind

I’ve never felt so much pressure or electricity or terror in my poor body.

Goes on for hours and hours and hours

I thought surely I would’ve settled by now. It’s been 30 days since tiny disruption.

Huge, huge fallout. I’m so so sad because when I look back, I can see that I was starting to stabilize.

I'm so sorry @Finni. Thinking of you. You will find stability again. 💜

19 minutes ago, SarahMc said:

I'm so sorry @Finni. Thinking of you. You will find stability again. 💜

Joining!

Better days must come @Finni hang on xx

Keep holding on @Finni , stability has to come eventually. Healing will be happening. xx

Hi @Finni my last dose change was end of April. Things came to climax early August and aside from fleeting abdominal pain I’ve been okay. The 3 months of intense pain was so incapacitating I’ve decided to hold for about 4-5 months so I can just live my life for a while. So yes I’m a lot more stable. Exhausted my the whole experience but stable.

16 hours ago, Catbird said:

Hi @Finni my last dose change was end of April. Things came to climax early August and aside from fleeting abdominal pain I’ve been okay. The 3 months of intense pain was so incapacitating I’ve decided to hold for about 4-5 months so I can just live my life for a while. So yes I’m a lot more stable. Exhausted my the whole experience but stable.

I’m So glad to hear you’re on the other side of the worst!

ChatGPT

You do not have to understand the whole mechanism this morning in order for your body to find its way toward quiet again. A nervous system can become extraordinarily stirred up after a medication disruption. Once it is highly reactive, the amount of suffering can feel completely out of proportion to the tiny event that started it. That mismatch is part of what makes this so bewildering: “How could something so small lead to something this enormous?” But enormous sensations do not mean an enormous thing has happened to who you are.

Picture that snow globe we’ve talked about. July 22 shook it tremendously. Right now there are so many flakes flying that you can barely see through the glass. The flakes aren’t the snow globe. And you don’t have to catch every flake and put it back where it belongs. Your body does the settling.

And the weirdness—the spongy, electric, shuddering, unreal quality—is especially frightening because your brain doesn’t have an ordinary category for it. You don’t need to make sense of every sensation. You can say:

“Weird is a sensation. Weird is not my future.
My body is stirred up.
It knows how to change states.
I am still me underneath all this noise.
This morning will move.
I will see ordinary life again.”

Keep crying if that’s what comes. Put your hand somewhere that feels least uncomfortable rather than trying to find somewhere that feels good.