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Mirtazapine 15mg

Been on this now for over a month and even though the cravings for food are there I have a high metabolism due to walking a lot every day and doing some push-ups at night or in the morning.

It's helped (I've found) with anxiety during the day but in the evening it tends to wear off and I'm back to my old self which is hard to get away from.
 
Is it safe medicinal choice to teeth and/or brains? Anybody experienced? And head zaps, does those come with it later? That noradrenaline thing sounds scary. And fattening medicine. There was no info is it safe to head? Is it common anyway to get electric shock feeling from missed antidepressant dose, of course nerve endings firing empty or again firing properly?
 
I have some head zaps, or some low tension is a better wording. But my libido is here again.
Don't know about its action on teeth.

Sublimit: I've been always on 15mg ;) If I continue gaining some weight, I'll change to 7.5mg.
 
I gained a ton of weight on mirtazapine (30mg) but definitely found it better for my anxiety & depression than lexapro or zoloft and no where near as many side effects (& withdrawals) as effexor. I loved being able to sleep well and didn't mind the residual drowsiness but ended up quiting in the end because I was too hungry too often... I hope it works out for you loulou!
 
Thanks belarki ;) That's a thing I like too about mirtazapine, being able to have a good night's sleep. It's invaluable, as I just had a long bout of bad night's sleep before being put on mirtazapine.
 
its been over a month since ive been taking mirtazapine and I still feel groggy when I wake up, although exercise does help me feel energized afterwards and the grogginess diminishes, but its hard to try and exercise when your so groggy.. im not fat either, im actually underweight which is another reason the doctor gave me it..

Also, does anyone have these dreams where you are AWARE that you are sleeping/dreaming? I aware im in my dreams and its just very strange, i get scared and wake up.. and sometimes its so hard to wake up, i become HALF asleep and my eyes are open but I CANT move, its like im paralyzed.
its terrifying, but ive become slightly used to it, but its just weird. My grandma actually walked in my room when I was half asleep and I was trying to make this moaning noise so she could wake me up, and she was staring at me. then the next morning I asked her if she heard me make a noise and she said yes, she was just staring at me so this is no dream
 
yeah... mirtazapine can give you the most lucid dreams. Before taking it, I could never remember my dreams. I enjoyed the dreams that it gave me.
 
AfterGlow said:
yeah... mirtazapine can give you the most lucid dreams. Before taking it, I could never remember my dreams. I enjoyed the dreams that it gave me.
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I really like the ones where you are aware youre dreaming AND you are able to control it like fly and shit, i fucking love those.. but i get ones where I get killed like shot or something its scary, ive never been shot irl so idk why i get those dreams
 
Mirtazapine doesn't give me lucid dreams... which is such a shame because I'd like to organize an orgy in one of my dreams, I deserve it.
 
c3nuke said:
Sublimit, how long did it take for your mirtazapine to start working? Ive takin it for a little over a month now (15mg) and even up to now it still makes me really groggy in the morning.. Ive started just 7.5 2 weeks ago, it still makes me sleepy as hell but still groggy in the morning, how long will the groggyness stop?

Also, how many mgs are you taking again? Im too lazy to check im sorry, very sleepy I took about 80mgs of oxycontin and its hard to find answers manually haha... all I can really do is listen to music and nod off, i really think I might pass out combined with remeron so sorry again for any misspellings, mistakes etc. :|
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Sorry man... been away from the boards for a few days. ummm well for me i only realized the positive effects after 8-10 weeks(might have been longer?) and only noticed it upon asking myself "has this been benefiting me".

so yeah, for me i didn't even notice that it actually had been working for a while. haven't had a noticeable shift in mood(emotionally stress free conditions) for 6 months. i change between 15 and 30mg at will. Don't know how long you'll be drowsy for, can't answer that, but I don't get drowsy from many things and if i do i soon develop tolerance to it. Personally, mirtazapine had a drowsy effect on me for a few days, and then nothing. 60mg or 15mg seems to have little noticeable difference on me.

Oh and you're experiencing sleep paralysis and lucid dreaming! Don't be afraid of the sleep paralysis man, i know it was scary as fuck for me at first and my instinct was to instantly try n snap out of it, but like you say you get used to it, and i started treating them like a psychedelic trip, and now... whenever they do occur, i try and make them last and last.... the best is when you can end a lucid dream in sleep paralysis.... only ever happened once but it was fucking awesome. I was loving my lucid dream and was walking in psychedelic wonderland, I approached this room that was the only black thing there and it appeared like a glitch... didn't fit with the landscape. I somehow managed to push my head inside this black transparent wall and boom! Literally had DMT like visuals that soon vanished and left me in sleep paralysis thinking wtf! wtf!wtf!wtf!
 
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loulou reed said:
Mirtazapine doesn't give me lucid dreams... which is such a shame because I'd like to organize an orgy in one of my dreams, I deserve it.
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Depends on what environment you find yourself in.... i'd be happy with just sauna girl:Dl

well i don't think the dream stuff started happening for me straight away, i think it took quite a while actually. It sounds like you're already going better on it now than before, so hope you start getting crazywicked dreams too:p
 
Last week I had this dream that I was running towards my fiancee's house (to find the key I had lost, but hadn't really) but the ground was made of thick tar (like the bar scene in F&L before the lizards) and I couldn't get any further - then I hear this slow beeping noise in the background and I was like 'wtf is that', it grew louder and louder then I snapped out of dreaming to her alarm going off beside me. It was like the alarm was being pulled into the dream.
 
That was my last dream on this, wonder when the next one will come? Come to think of it that dream was last week.
 
Ooh mirtazapine makes me fart like an old dog, that's crazy. Luckily I live alone, but my diet is ok so it's kind of embarassing, to say the least :p

I hope it won't last.
 
I had a similar experience with citalopram......took 20mg and after a month started noticing I was eating good, sleeping good and overall feeling better about life. After a cessation of use, I used it 4 months later at 40mg and even after 2 months it did not help at all like I thought it would......maybe your body just becomes immune to certain anti-depressants after a good time on them and just have to switch to a different one. Anti-depressants are weird.
 
The cravings for food have gone and I've slipped back into not eating at all now. I hated the cravings, and more so hated eating so much during the day.
 
The increase from 15 to 30 made me sleep for like 14 hours, then if I couldnt be fucked to face the day I'd easily force myself to sleep,, but yeah,, I got it swapped from an SSRI which was just generally a shitier drug for me,, the anti-depressant feeling of mirtazapine seems more 'whole' whereas the SSRI citalopram seemed to be that you could almost feel your happiness radiate from your stomach area,,, weird,,, oh but mainly citalopram made me sweat WAY too much,, I also had low libido on it and couldnt stop yawning on it at first so,, for my OCD/ tic disorder I prefer mirtazapine and though the jump up to 30mg now has added extra hours stuck in bed I've at least bought some ephidrene to combat that and would probably recommend the 30mg increase personally,,, oh yeah,, and wouldnt ya know it even with an appetite suppresant/ stim like ephedrine I've put on weight,,, which is weird as I dont remember eating more or wanting to- then again I'm drinking a bit so that might be it,, be well -RB
 
^^^ It's not wise to take ephedrine with anti-depressants in fact it's not wise to take ephedrine at all really. It's a shitty dangerous fairly useless drug anyway.

I was on mirtazapine for abit and i went rather quickly from 15mg's to 30mg's a night. I was not on it long as i was not on a mood stabilizer and was only taking low doses of risperdal with it so it aggravated my mania. Or i think it did anyway as this was awile back.

I didnt find it that bad at all and since i was abit skinny at the time the appetite increase was a good thing. It's a great anti-depressant for sleep but sometimes my hunger would override the drowsiness and id stay up a few hours and eat everything in sight. The drowsiness kinda goes away once youve been on 30mg's for awile as the norepinephrine effects start to kick in.

I have been on worse anti-depressants that is for sure and it didnt give me any withdrawal symptoms when i stopped taking it. So that in and of itself was a big plus.
 
great for depression

well i have tried loads of different ones in the past. for depression this one starts to work straight away. the sleep inducing properties are great as well. sometimes i take 30mg in the day just to let my mind unwind and feel pleasantly tired. its a 50 % chance it will knock me out. i have been taking it for 3 months have gained a little bit of weight has not taken away my sex drive.(one of the reasons my shrink put me on this)
ita good for anzxiety as well.i dont take any other meds apart from synthetic cannabinoids occasionally. it goes really well with grass.

I think its one of the most effective ones out there. little to no side effects. if i were to be on any AD this would be the one i reccomend.
 
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