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Anyone Taking Mirtazapine for Sleep?
I've recently titrated off of 450mg of Venlafaxine that I had been on for fifteen years. While I was on it I would wake up every two hours until they put me on 150mg of Seroquel, but that makes me depressed and groggy, so I no longer take that.
Even though I am no longer on Venlafaxine I still wake up every two hours. I believe, and I think my provider now agrees, that the sleep disturbances are at least contributing to my depression and anxiety, if not the cause.
Soooo, my primary care provider has ordered a sleep study that I don't suspect will find anything. And my psych provider has just prescribed Mirtazapine. I of course have looked it up but I'm interested in any first hand experiences with the drug.
Does it help you sleep through the night?
Where you able to stop taking it?
How bad where the side effects?
Thank you for any information you can provide.
May you live in peace and good health.
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That is exactly the problem. It does make you dizzy and I do not take mine until I am literally going to get in bed and go to sleep.
Yep I was taking Mirtazapine 30mg nightly for 35 years,was great I slept extremely well then several years ago it just stopped working for me,then drs tried all different meds until I tried a new dr she put me on venlaxafine 75mg highly along with chlorazapine and zolpidem been great ever since.
It helped me with sleep at either a very high does, 30 mg or at a lower dose 7.5.
I felt wonderful on this med but I gained loads of weight. All the advice about watching what I was eating was of no value, the weight just kept coming and staying.
I did find an other good effect, it stopped my allergies, something about it being a H2 blocker.
Good luck