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NT1100B: Mirtazapine

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Morning all, back off a slightly shorter walk, zero energy and feel like s**t. I awoke after 3 hours broken

sleep on a 0 so not much bloody change there. Now I got a Mate to empty my bits and bobs out of my car

on Friday, now I couldn't go with him as I was in a horrific state, that grieved me but out of my power.

 

Anyway I did ring the guy yesterday and he said he could fix it, but said he would get a price off the specialist

and let me know!!!!!! He has already had the car a month!!! Cattle prodder up his arse needed!!!! But I am thinking

the state I am in it's not mega at the MOMENT, so he also said the fix would be guaranteed 12month, SO I will

hound him next week for the price. I did say my Motorbike had gone, so I NEED it!! The guy is in a world of his own.

 

But anyway ALL car contents now in bungalow, so I am happy with that, but PWD, no nearer yet, I just seem to keep

getting worse, so in a way everything else is on the far side lines anyway. If I am sounding confused, sorry, my brain

is like a corrupted computer, making very little sense. So for now it's keep plodding. Gonna lie down for another hour,

catch you later.   Take care all,         B.

2001-2021 Prozac 20mg

2020-2021 Tramadol 300mg

2022 April 15th  Started Mirtazapine 15mg

2022 Sept 15 dropped to 7.5mg

2023 May 16th failed CT reinstated.

2023  June 30th tapering off

2025 Jan 7th Stopped all drugs.

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  • NT1100B
    NT1100B

    Hi all, as I just said to LIC, I have miraculously lifted to a 7.5 this afternoon, calmer than I have been in a long time. Now if it's sleep reset to a 0 tonight, then so be it, that's out of my

  • HopePerseveres2.0
    HopePerseveres2.0

    @NT1100B, you WILL win this fight. You are trying to do too much of this alone. Part of successful healing is to not be isolated too much. If you do call the crisis center, ask them for help, not nece

  • Its-me-Rosie
    Its-me-Rosie

    Sorry to hear your wave is ongoing. I know from my extensive past googling 🙄 an watching every success story out there on Angie’s page, that some of the people she interviewed say they were just

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56 minutes ago, NT1100B said:

Morning all, back off a slightly shorter walk, zero energy and feel like s**t. I awoke after 3 hours broken

sleep on a 0 so not much bloody change there. Now I got a Mate to empty my bits and bobs out of my car

on Friday, now I couldn't go with him as I was in a horrific state, that grieved me but out of my power.

 

Anyway I did ring the guy yesterday and he said he could fix it, but said he would get a price off the specialist

and let me know!!!!!! He has already had the car a month!!! Cattle prodder up his arse needed!!!! But I am thinking

the state I am in it's not mega at the MOMENT, so he also said the fix would be guaranteed 12month, SO I will

hound him next week for the price. I did say my Motorbike had gone, so I NEED it!! The guy is in a world of his own.

 

But anyway ALL car contents now in bungalow, so I am happy with that, but PWD, no nearer yet, I just seem to keep

getting worse, so in a way everything else is on the far side lines anyway. If I am sounding confused, sorry, my brain

is like a corrupted computer, making very little sense. So for now it's keep plodding. Gonna lie down for another hour,

catch you later.   Take care all,         B.

Hey B

 

Im glad you got your things back from your car. Yes he needs kick in the butt for sure! So frustrating when people don't do what they say they will do. No matter it will be sorted, and as you said not the biggest thing right now. Now you just need to do as you are and concentrate on healing.

 

It's soooo slow I know! Wish it would speed up, but I truly believe this is as bad as it is because you are quietly making MASSIVE progress behind the scenes! At some point you will crawl out of the shell and see it! Its coming! Just gotta keep holding on for as along as it takes! We are all here right behind you the whole way!

 

Chippy

I’m not a medical professional and cannot offer medical advice. I only offer my thoughts as support. Please speak to your health practitioner about your care. This is a peer site where we support each other on our taper/recovery journeys. 

 

If you are from the UK please make sure you fill in a 'Yellow Card' report for the MHRA. It is you doing your bit to help make a difference.

Please take the time to do it today 🙂 https://yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk

For US members details here.

8 hours ago, HopeOfHealing said:


I do the same! Keeping You in my prayers B.! 🙏🙏🙏

Hey @HopeOfHealing thanks for being here for B and encouraging him. It's so kind of you! 🙂 

 

I noticed you have a success story on SA. Would you be up for adding a post here in our success stories section?

 

Chippy

I’m not a medical professional and cannot offer medical advice. I only offer my thoughts as support. Please speak to your health practitioner about your care. This is a peer site where we support each other on our taper/recovery journeys. 

 

If you are from the UK please make sure you fill in a 'Yellow Card' report for the MHRA. It is you doing your bit to help make a difference.

Please take the time to do it today 🙂 https://yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk

For US members details here.

Hi B

Im Going to stay off now until my next update as I find talking about Symtoms actually makes me worse but I wanted to come on and share a link to Baylissas website.

 

she has some spots next week for 50 minute coaching. It’s £100, but it may be the best money you’ve ever spent. She’s the OG coach and has coached over a thousand people and she always says ‘everyone heals.’

 

she can share some real hope with you as she’s seen it all and done it all from what I gather.

 

I know it’s expensive and you may not be able to afford but just thought I’d share 

 

https://baylissa.com/sessions/

 

Rosie x 

- Compazine injury following surgery used as an anti nausea drug Feb 2023, led to agitation and racing thoughts 

- tried to cope med free, advised to start Prozac May 2023 20mg 

- made me worse but was told to persevere, believe I had an adverse reaction. 
- decided to taper after 6 months of use at 20mg. Went down over 14/15 months to 1.5mg.

- February 2025 came off 1.5mg due to feeling good and didn’t know this would lead to such strong WD

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16 hours ago, Its-me-Rosie said:

I know it’s expensive and you may not be able to afford but just thought I’d share 

 

Thanks @Its-me-Rosie for the very kind thoughts.

Take great care,       B.🙏🤞❤️ 

2001-2021 Prozac 20mg

2020-2021 Tramadol 300mg

2022 April 15th  Started Mirtazapine 15mg

2022 Sept 15 dropped to 7.5mg

2023 May 16th failed CT reinstated.

2023  June 30th tapering off

2025 Jan 7th Stopped all drugs.

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Morning all, back off my morning walk, very lethargic with a grumbling stiff back, feeling s**t again.

I awoke on a 0 after 4 hours very broken sleep. Not getting any better yet at all, this is the long, long haul.

SO nothing more I can say on that one, it's just keep surviving the living hell, second, minute, hour and day.

Take care all,       B.  

2001-2021 Prozac 20mg

2020-2021 Tramadol 300mg

2022 April 15th  Started Mirtazapine 15mg

2022 Sept 15 dropped to 7.5mg

2023 May 16th failed CT reinstated.

2023  June 30th tapering off

2025 Jan 7th Stopped all drugs.

5 minutes ago, NT1100B said:

Morning all, back off my morning walk, very lethargic with a grumbling stiff back, feeling s**t again.

I awoke on a 0 after 4 hours very broken sleep. Not getting any better yet at all, this is the long, long haul.

SO nothing more I can say on that one, it's just keep surviving the living hell, second, minute, hour and day.

Take care all,       B.  

Morning B

 

Still in the trenches mate, I’m sorry bud. What kind of hell is all this eh? You know the truth. Time will ease this. It can’t go on forever, just feels like it I know. I can’t wait for the day you lift your head above this fog. It’s coming. I can’t wait!

 

Chippy

I’m not a medical professional and cannot offer medical advice. I only offer my thoughts as support. Please speak to your health practitioner about your care. This is a peer site where we support each other on our taper/recovery journeys. 

 

If you are from the UK please make sure you fill in a 'Yellow Card' report for the MHRA. It is you doing your bit to help make a difference.

Please take the time to do it today 🙂 https://yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk

For US members details here.

From what I've seen, and personally experienced, it's quite common to be treading water and not seeming to be improving at around this time.

 

That doesn't change that many others who were in this position at around this time did go on to get better and recover.

 

I believe that you will too, in time.

Nothing I say is medical advice, it is simply my opinion. I am an anonymous person on an internet forum with no relevant qualifications other than being badly harmed by a drug. For all you know, I could be an idiot. You are making your own decisions and part of that is deciding how much to listen to my opinion, if at all.

 

Perhaps you should consider this post an artistic work of fiction written for entertainment purposes.


Story from SA: LukeUK: Remeron/Mirtazapine Severe Withdrawal - Introductions and updates - Surviving Antidepressants

 

15mg Remeron/Mirtazapine November starting 2022 (severe physical side effects)

Attempted to taper off January 2023, ended up having a major breakdown and going up to 30mg, took weeks to stabilise

1 month taper  to 0mg

Last dose April 2023

Severe withdrawal syndrome with many physical symptoms

Summary: 5 months using Mirtazapine, including 1 month taper ending late April 2023.

Dear B., what a Hell, nobody in this world has to endure this unbearable suffering. As Chippy says, this terror cannot be forever. I am in my month 13 of horror... Let's hope in the Time.

Svetla

Edited by skamen

2011-2023 Paxil

2023-2024 Effexor

Since February 2024 in anhedonia caused by the long use of AD

February 2024-March 2025 drug after drug after drug... 70 rTMS sessions, 8 ketamin infusions-nothing worked

March 2025 CT upon doctor "advice" from Desipramine, Viibryd, Lithium at high doses all together in 6 days

Since then awful withdrawal: unbearable anxiety, panic attacks, adrenaline rushes, hot flashes, muscle pain over all the body, insomnia, depression, intrusive thoughts, brain fog

Current tapering Mirtazapine : December 29,2025-3 mg, February,15, 2025-2,7 mg, February,28-2,5 mg, March,8-2 mg, March,14-1,5 mg, March,20-0 mg

Hey Mr B , 

I know your having a break from this site and you don't have to reply but I'm thinking of you and sending you all my love . Keep plodding your the king of that 🤴

On Paxil since 1995. Seroquel added 2014 after withdrawal crash. History of too-fast tapers/reinstatements.

 

21 April 2025 taper two drugs at once 

Paxil 4% Seroquel 3.5% per month

that ended up being too much and changed to one drug at a time  

13 Jul 2025: 4% Paxil cut

29 Jul 2025: 5% Paxil cut 

6 Aug 2025: began hold

Oct 2025: changed from liquid to powder and accidentally took 10x Seroquel dose for 2 weeks by mistake

23 Oct 2025: returned to liquid with accidental 4.7% Seroquel cut

 Holding both drugs to stablize

Holding at Paxil 8.25 mg / Seroquel 6.5

Paxil taper

22/4 8.23  29/4 8.20  5/5 8.15 13/5 8.05  3/6 8 11/6 7.95

Hey B, I have been sick and not able to get on the site for almost 2 weeks. I am sorry that you are back on a 0 trend but had that recent window too. This is still great progress!

Things to help with sleep:

1) You can mix nutmeg with your choice of warm milk for an evening drink.

2) Another Ayurvedic hack for sleep is massaging the body or even from knees down to feet and elbows down to hands with jojoba oil (or calming Ayurvedic oils), which calms the nervous system. You can do this after a shower. Take the shower before bed as the warmer temperature then cooling off is key, which also brings about a parasympathetic response.

I looked this up just now because Jonathan is very good at compiling and sharing information with others for their health. I often refer to his website for a lot of issues.

https://lifespa.com/health-topics/sleep/ayurvedic-guide-best-sleep/#Ayurvedic_Sleep_Solutions_for_Just_Before_Bed

Maybe I should post this in the coping strategies section!

 

I know that this is wearing you down but you are stronger than the wave thinking on all levels: emotional, cognitive, spiritual, and physical. You will get past this crappy phase of your life. Keep having faith that God will see you through this. Blessings and prayers, my friend.

2 Tim 1:7 For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice (fear); but rather of power and love and self-control (a sound mind).

The Whole Story About Me

--Current Rx: since 2000-2025 Levothyroxine discontinued late Sept 2025 under DO supervision--no menstrual cycle for 2 months, Hypothalamus PMG brought it back and has been regular ever since under functional chiropractor =o) thank God for holistic medicine

2017-current Remeron/Mirt. recent taper schedule here: crushed pills 0.45mg May 30, 2025; 0.4mg Sept 14, 2025; found out 0.4mg weighed is actually a dose of 0.44mg Dec 19, 2025 and now using compounded Rx; 0.41mg Feb 27, 2026; 0.39mg April 3, 2026, 0.38mg May 8, 2026, 0.37mg June 28, 2026.

--Supplements: Standard Process-Whole Food Folate, Prolamine Iodine Plus, B Vitality w/ CoQ10, Zypan, RNA, Cataplex E, Symplex F, and Immuplex (sort of like a multi but for Oct-Apr) when needed; Biotics Research- Mg-Zyme 100mg; Omega-3 Oil, Black Currant Seed Oil, Vitamin D3/K2 drops; sometimes Seeking Health methyl free multi vitamin and elderberry zinc gummies

**Love my work, fitness, polyvagal exercises (includes yoga-style poses for nervous system regulation), prayer/Inner Healing Prayer, holistic health, somatic therapies, lovingkindness, forest therapy, singing, helping others, spending time in nature and with family and friends.

Anti-histamine Withdrawal Video-Explains a lot (This is not me.)

@NT1100B I hope we hear from you soon again. I am a bit worried.

From 27. February 2025 - 15. April 2025 Mirtazapine 15 mg (tried quitting CT 3 times before reinstating after one day, successful CT on attempt 4)

(2 weeks in that timeframe my dose was upped to Mirtazapine 30 mg, I don't remember the exact date when the dose was upped and in which timeframe I took it.)

 

15. April 2025 - 29. April 2025 Lorazepam 0,5 mg

15. April 2025 - 20. August 2025 on Olanzapine 5 mg

20th of August 2025 - 04. September 2025 tapered off Olanzapine (5 mg to 2,5 mg to 0 mg)

 

Off all meds since 05. September 2025.

@HopeOfHealing @MischaDE some comments about a linked video have been moved to a separate thread to keep this one about B.

 

Nothing I say is medical advice, it is simply my opinion. I am an anonymous person on an internet forum with no relevant qualifications other than being badly harmed by a drug. For all you know, I could be an idiot. You are making your own decisions and part of that is deciding how much to listen to my opinion, if at all.

 

Perhaps you should consider this post an artistic work of fiction written for entertainment purposes.


Story from SA: LukeUK: Remeron/Mirtazapine Severe Withdrawal - Introductions and updates - Surviving Antidepressants

 

15mg Remeron/Mirtazapine November starting 2022 (severe physical side effects)

Attempted to taper off January 2023, ended up having a major breakdown and going up to 30mg, took weeks to stabilise

1 month taper  to 0mg

Last dose April 2023

Severe withdrawal syndrome with many physical symptoms

Summary: 5 months using Mirtazapine, including 1 month taper ending late April 2023.

Hey B, hope you're doing well. Praying for you. 

2014-2017: Prozac

2017-2021: Paxil and Mirtazapine

2021 (initial): Sertraline and Trazodone

2021-June 2024: Sertraline and Mirtazapine, with doctor-instructed tapering- experienced withdrawal starting in August

October 2024-May 2025: Lexapro and Mirtazapine- to alleviate persistent panic and depersonalization, which I now attribute to withdrawal

Since May 2025: Fluoxetine 20 mg and Mirtazapine 7.5 mg (Attempting to discontinue all medications- stabilizing first)

 

Current meds:

Fluoxetine- 20 mg

Mirtazapine- 7.5 mg

 

Current Supplement:

Magnesium Glycinate

Taurine

Vitamin C

Dear B., @NT1100B, my thoughts go to you. Our suffering is huge, but we NEED to struggle, there is NO OTHER choice.

Svetla

2011-2023 Paxil

2023-2024 Effexor

Since February 2024 in anhedonia caused by the long use of AD

February 2024-March 2025 drug after drug after drug... 70 rTMS sessions, 8 ketamin infusions-nothing worked

March 2025 CT upon doctor "advice" from Desipramine, Viibryd, Lithium at high doses all together in 6 days

Since then awful withdrawal: unbearable anxiety, panic attacks, adrenaline rushes, hot flashes, muscle pain over all the body, insomnia, depression, intrusive thoughts, brain fog

Current tapering Mirtazapine : December 29,2025-3 mg, February,15, 2025-2,7 mg, February,28-2,5 mg, March,8-2 mg, March,14-1,5 mg, March,20-0 mg

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