Mirtazapine increase

Hi everyone

Going on three month mark of no benzos. Feeling the withdrawal but also feeling with what I suspect an increase in anxiety. Have a session with my doctor on Tuesday ( tomorrow)

Currently on 15 mg Mirtazapine which was rx’d for sleep and anxiety.

Feeling dizzy, ears ringing and tingling. Classic withdrawal symptoms.

I think tho it may be also increased anxiety.

Don’t want any other drugs but was curious if anyone has gone from a lower dose to a higher one because of increased anxiety? Did it help?

Just hate another drug and it’s side effects.

Will ask my doctor but would appreciate advice.

Thanks

Old Sal

The higher does increased my anxiety.

It might help. I was on 90 mgs during and after my detox.

You maybe keep Mirt low, it acts more on histamine at lower dose and makes you calm.

On higher dose its also noradrenalin, which could cause anxiety?

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6322815/

Mirtazapine generally better for anxiety/sleep at lower doses like 7.5mg.  Once you get to 15 and up the norepinephrine effect starts to kick in. 

so, i don't understand how people are able to take this drug and not gain a significant amount of weight. i'm a naturally thin, fit mid-30s guy and if i even look at a bottle of mirtazapine i gain like 10 lbs and it doesn't stop.

 

it works, but the detriments outweigh the benefits for me and i wish that they didn't.

so, i don't understand how people are able to take this drug and not gain a significant amount of weight. i'm a naturally thin, fit mid-30s guy and if i even look at a bottle of mirtazapine i gain like 10 lbs and it doesn't stop.

 

it works, but the detriments outweigh the benefits for me and i wish that they didn't.

 

Mirt absolutely saved me during the worst parts of BWD/acute. It masked the severity of the BWD symptoms for me and let me sleep at night/helped me hold down a job, so I accepted the weight gain as a side effect even though it sucked for sure.

Mirt absolutely saved me during the worst parts of BWD/acute. It masked the severity of the BWD symptoms for me and let me sleep at night/helped me hold down a job, so I accepted the weight gain as a side effect even though it sucked for sure.

 

i used it  to taper off of ambien and yeah, it helped, but then it was really hard to get off of mirtazapine, so i felt like i was trading one chemical dependency for another, which i totally was.

 

i mean, it doesn't help that i suffer from an underlying pretty severe anxiety disorder, so i need to be on something, i just want to be on the least amount of whatever that is as possible to minimize side effects. if mirt didn't have such a terrible side effect profile, i'd stay on that med for life bc it does, indeed, work really well to squash anxiety.