Recovery: Mirtazapine Withdrawal (Day 7)
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- An update on my recovery.
Unfortunately when I quit benzodiazepines 3 years ago, I relied upon mirtazapine and was on it ever since. I am now quitting it with the intention of being free from all pills. Today is Day 7 off it.
Tomorrow I plan on beginning microdosing Psilocybin mushrooms.
Took that shit for 2 days, couldn't tolerate it. Felt like a zombie, mouth was dry all day....and this was just 2 days! Glad I didn't continue even though the doctor insisted.
I am on 7.5 for 3 weeks feel good before taking this I couldn't do anything like work so this is helping
thanks for the video i stopped cold turkey mirtazapin after 15 years im on day 8 i feel so much better now i feel i was dying before
It's certainly not a fun time! Good luck to you moving forward.
Hello there. I cold turkeyed from mirtazapine 2 weeks ago been on meds for about 20 years, mirtazapine for 5 years. I'm on nothing now and have not had any side effects. I'm waiting for them but they aren't coming. Can you please tell me how you are doing now? Did your side effects come and go or was it just the initial 8 days? I really hope your doing ok.
What arevyour symptoms
@@jasonshackelford3928 who are you asking that question too?
Happy for you mate
Hope your feeling a better now. I was also addicted to bonzo's for at least 5 years. When I say addicted I mean drug dependant not that i was taking too much. Anyway the withdrawal was intensely horrible and left me with anxiety for years. Eventually the doctors sent me for a blood test and I was diagnosed with an overactive thyroid which amongst other things gives you anxiety. Years later I had a dream that there was a link between that and the benzodiazepine withdrawal, so I googled it and found a study in America that found a link showing that, I think it was 1 in 6 people who had used benzos went on to suffer with thyroid disease. Might be worth looking into if your still suffering. Officially an overactive thyroid is called Graves disease. It will make you anxious, nervous, tired, weak, poor sleep, weight loss and much more. It made me feel horrendous for years but it is entirely treatable. Anyway just a thought. All the best
Glad you are better! Thanks for the advice. I will look into it, as I do alo have tiredness.
I’m still on my treatment with Mirtazapine 30mg, at my higher dose I don’t get the sedative effects but my pharmacy messed up my prescription and been told on sunday I need to wait till thursday which is tomorrow. Its been the only medication thats helped me with my anxiety which went haywire months prior and I was basically crippled with sickness, insane nausea that strong anti emetics couldn’t stop and I didn’t sleep for nearly two weeks, those final days I went into cardiac arrest and was hospitalised i’d say that was my lowest point thinking that was it. The mirtazapine felt like it saved my life because it made me sleep and my sickness vanished, when I was still getting use to it I always thought it was too good to be true but over time felt better when it started to take effect. My dependence makes the withdrawal so much worse for me feeling I can’t function or i’ll collapse into wonderland. I’d say i’ve been lucky with it not getting any side effects from taking it but I wish I was lucky enough to be like people who didn’t suffer from withdrawal.
Inderstandable what ur goin thru, 2nd week off mirtazapine, havin the withdrawals. Depression anxiety. Was on clonazepam, mirtazapine and venlafaxine, stopped takin venl.. month and a half ago went thru withdrawals of venla.. now yhru the withdrawals of mirtazapine and eventually i want to be off clonazepam so another withdrawals symptoms i will have to go thru.. yuck.. hang in there bud, psych got me into all these meds becoz of alcohol addiction , dont ever want to go thru the whole cycle ever again
I'm a month off now, will have an update soon! Thank you. Good luck to you too!
Hello mate,
Can I just say please don’t apologise about you saying that you can’t bring a positive to this video. Mate, you have 100 percent.
Hi mate, I’ve found your videos so helpful.
I got started on mirtaz after 1 week of panic attacks and tried coming off because it didn’t help after 5 under doctors guidance and suffered terribly, still not got rid of withdrawals even after reinstatement. So I wanted to ask; how did you taper from 15 to 7.5? As I tried doing the half dose and after three days I had severe withdrawals and akasthesia symptoms, and from all the communities, you really bring me hope I can recover from this mistake.
Am down from 15mg to 7.5mg are you still on 7.5
They had me on 1mg of lorazepam for 4 months I'm on mirtazpine just because they stopped it cold turkey and the withdrawals are killing me I've been on it for 3 weeks and they want to switch my meds because I'm always anxious 24/7 is this a good idea or not how hard is it to stop this Med I can't get through this I don't know what to do
Mirtazapine at low dose (approx 7.5mg) causes far worse withdrawal than higher doses 15mg etc, it has dose dependant properties. Hence why there is a conflict of opinions concerning withdrawal.
Is it best to just stop completely once you are down to 7.5mg or taper a mg a month down to 0mg?
I have seen this on Reddit as well that people have more withdrawal symptoms from lower doses than higher doses
@@bluestar7757 I think I jaut replied to your comment on a other video. How are you feeling now.
@@mrc.p8423please please go slow don't jump off at 7.5mg
If you don't mind me asking how long were you on mirt after the benzo? And how did you taper off the mirt again? I'm
Hearing people
Say that they jumped from mirt too soon and it was actually under lying benzo withdraw still, which the mirt masked, but who knows cuz mirt withdrawal is a real severe thing but interesting to think about
around 3 - 3 and a half years, mainly at 7.5 - 15mg. I stayed on 7.5mg and 3.75mg for a long time, and then liquid tapered.
If you need help with liquid tapering, there is a seperate video on my channel that may help.
Im tapering down off mirt 15mg now. Im down to 7.5mg at the moment. Feel really weird right now tbh. Dont know whether to just fuck it off altogether now or continue tapering?. Is it just dragging out the inevitable or is it reducing how bad it would be if i wasnt tapering down gradually?
Where are you at now?
I couldn't give advice on what you should do unfortunately as it will really depend on the person. Many people cut off at 7.5mg, so you could give it a try. If you struggle then you could always taper, but personally I kinda feel like I wished I came off sooner so my opinion is biased.
@@aphenex im taking 3.75mg at the moment mate. Going to come off completely when im off work at xmas.
@@mrc.p8423 no dr here but take it slow. Im rushing because im desperate. And the mood swings are just really bad. Sometimes really irritated , sometimes anxious or sometimes really depressed
I was in 7.5 mg reduced it to 3.75mg for 2 weeks and now at 0 , ending 2nd week. Sucks. Never thought i wud get withdrawal from antidepressants
@@luisacosta4385 how are you now?
HOW is it going with the mushroom ARE YOU MICRO DOSING IF SO WHATS YOUR PROTOCOL
Thanks for asking! Will have a video on that shortly :)
@@aphenex give mexa shout when you do
Hi mate I’ve just stopped mirtazipine how quick did your withdrawals start
They were happening once my taper was under 2-3mg and probably peaked at 3-4 days completely off. It may be different for others though. Good luck.
Hi mate thanks for your reply. Can I ask your advice on benzos as currently been taking them and could do with someone with experience on the issue
@@stewartayres85 How long have you been taking them for, which ones, at which dose? Are you looking to come off?
Not long but already not doing much, I started taking lerozepam 1mg to calm the agitation down on the mirtazipine that’s why I come of quickly. I’ve done 1 week 1mg nearly 3 weeks between 2-3 mg a day but mor 3 mg. I’ve got enough to 2 mg a day next week, 1mg week after and 0.5mg week after. I’m hoping that will not give me to many issues
@@stewartayres85 You will be fine, just don't go back to it after. Good luck!
Bro same im suffering also.
Would you recommend Mirt to get off Z drugs? I'm finding they don't work at all as I've developed tolerance. Thank you
In my opinion it would be better to try to taper the z-drugs, without relying on anything else. You'll get some nights without sleep, but it will be worth it long term.
That said may be worth having an OTC sedative such as promethazine for emergency use. I used 25-50mg promethazine on my 3rd day without sleep after coming off mirtazapine, but only used it once or twice in the last 4 months.
@@aphenex Have to say I have been using promethazine on top of the z drugs for two years or more. I've got pretty bad tinnitus as a result of the otoxicity from the antihistamine. Hoping the ringing will dissapear once I'm over the withdrawal...
Hope you'll be back soon with an update - thank you
What’s happening you are still healing from benzos. You probably have protractive withdrawals. Just hang in there