Re: Mirtazapine 15mg 2.5 weeks in- way increased anxiety and vision problems
It’s a tough call for anyone else but yourself to make. Clearly if the side effects are intolerable, then it’s time to revisit your GP to discuss a way forward.
I’m of the opinion that you should stick to whatever medication the GP has decided might be the best option for you. Some of these medications take several weeks, if not months, to become wholly effective. Chopping and changing does not, to me, seem like a clear way ahead. So stick with it if you can. If you can’t, then my first paragraph refers.
I have been on 15mg of Mirtazapine daily for 11 days. About two hours after I take the tablet I start to feel very drowsy, but, paradoxically, restless and agitated. This lasts for around two hours, then fades, just leaving me drowsy. I then sleep fitfully through the night, with some extremely vivid and interesting dreams. The initial ‘stunned mullet’ feelings that I experienced in the first few days of taking Mirtazapine have now faded. So we all react differently to the drug.
I have no idea, at present, how long my GP will suggest that I stay on this drug. I see him again on 13 May, but I intend to persist until it either works or doesn’t.
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