Posted by sowhysosad on April 17, 2009, at 18:25:16
In reply to Remeron for treatment resistant depression..., posted by Enigma on April 17, 2009, at 17:15:42
Remeron is a triumph of marketing over research. The early research on it was deliberately misleading (the drug company buried any unfavourable research) and there's little evidence it has any effect on serotonin.
I can't see how it can help with treatment-resistant depression much at all. All it does is boosts your norepinephrine a bit and makes you fat and sleepy. In fact, I took it for treatment-resistant depression and it just gave me brain fog and some edginess/anxiety. Did exactly zero for my mood.
As I mentioned elsewhere though, might be worth a shot alongside something like Effexor to help with sleep and some of the Effexor side effects.
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