Posted by purplesky on July 29, 2006, at 12:48:44
In reply to Wellbutrin a good option » purplesky, posted by pseudoname on July 29, 2006, at 9:56:55
Re: Was the Remeron a horrible experience? It was for me.
I went on a combination of Remeron and Zyprexa during my 2nd hospitalization. I suspect the psychiatrist there hated me. I was fairly underweight at the time (mostly from school and work stress and being so busy, party from being depressed, and partly from my body image issues.) I was always getting light-hearted teasing during vitals about how tiny I was and how they used a child's cuff, and they would tease me at mealtimes as to what I did and did not eat, which was really triggering to me and irresponsible of them.
I assume they were trying to get me to gain quickly without dealing with underlying issues, but I went from a moderately depressed, apathetic individual to an emotionally labile wreck with sugar cravings, and I dealt with it how I used to.
I just about cleared out the cereal pantry of the psych ward every night and purged between 15 minute checks. I hadn't purged regularly in almost a year. The staff was so incompetent, they were completely oblivious, even though I had disclosed everything on the charts. I gained a lot of weight in a very short period of time.
I'm not sure whether to blame the Remeron or the Zyprexa or myself, but I quit them as soon as I got out of the hospital at the advice of a holistic/naturalist friend of my mom's who suggested an arsenal of amino acids and vitamins, which actually worked much better than Zyprexa/Remeron did. So I guess I don't exactly have a horror story on Remeron, just a miserable story of which we're not sure the culprit!
What is your horror story of Remeron?
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