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Mirtazapine trouble concentrating side effect?

Posted by divinewisdom28 @divinewisdom28, Feb 10, 2023

Hi,

I have been on 45mg mirtazapine (remron) remeron for the past few months for anxiety. I know at the higher doses it's not sedating. I don't necessarily feel tired, however I've been having a lot of trouble with concentration and I'm always confused when people are asking me to do something, like it doesn't process through my brain. I'm only 28 years old.
Today i felt like i was going to faint. I try sometimes so hard to concentrate that i get tension head aches now. It's like my brain is constipated when i am trying to formulate sentences or thoughts.

Not to get off track, but I've also been using the Fisher Wallace Stimulator for a month and a half now. Apart from these 2 treatments, I don't know what could be wrong.

I was just wondering if anyone has experienced these side effects on this medication or if this is even a commonly reported side effect, especially at this dose?

Thank you,

John

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cmd | @cmd | Feb 11, 2023

John,
We should chat about Mirtazapine!
I was on it before…..
Let me know if you want to discuss.
Carolyn

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yasmineseropian | @yasmineseropian | Feb 11, 2023

I have been on 45mg for six months, lower doses about a year. I love it. I am alert, active, positive, just functioning as I am supposed to.
Sorry, you have problems with it.

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cmd | @cmd | Feb 11, 2023

John,
Please research this medication each person reacts differently to it.

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chistiania | @chistiania | Feb 12, 2023

divinewisdom28 @divinewisdom28
John,
I used to use 45 mgs a long ago, because I had huge problems sleeping at night. It helped a lot. But after some years I realized Mirtazapine was the reason for my huge weight gain and I stopped using 45 mgs. Now I only use 15 mgs.
(Could it be that the reason you are unable to concentrate, is that you are constantly tired because of Mirtazapine?).

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divinewisdom28 | @divinewisdom28 | Feb 12, 2023
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divinewisdom28 @divinewisdom28
John,
I used to use 45 mgs a long ago, because I had huge problems sleeping at night. It helped a lot. But after some years I realized Mirtazapine was the reason for my huge weight gain and I stopped using 45 mgs. Now I only use 15 mgs.
(Could it be that the reason you are unable to concentrate, is that you are constantly tired because of Mirtazapine?).

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Honestly I don't really feel too tired from it. My psychiatrist said that at higher doses like 45mg it is not sedating, but maybe there's something in it. I've also been having really bad earworms like music playing in my head...it's been bad.
Also have been getting really bad tension head aches and when i do it is just really hard for me to concentrate at all.

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chistiania | @chistiania | Feb 12, 2023
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Honestly I don't really feel too tired from it. My psychiatrist said that at higher doses like 45mg it is not sedating, but maybe there's something in it. I've also been having really bad earworms like music playing in my head...it's been bad.
Also have been getting really bad tension head aches and when i do it is just really hard for me to concentrate at all.

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I am sorry that you have these difficulties. Unfortunately, it seems to me that medicines sometimes help for something but create other problems (like tinnitus that I got from something I was using for fibromyalgia called "Savella". I wish I never had taken it. And I discovered it was Savella that caused it by sheer chance. When I found out it was too late and now I have tinnitus too!).

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