Posted by Brazilnut on July 10, 2007, at 14:16:59
In reply to Re: Mirtazapine: 10 days, 10 years a question, posted by 13243 on July 9, 2007, at 18:14:09
13243:
Each person is different, and I hope you aren't so sensitive as myself. One of the things I learned with great pain weaning off several meds is that at the beginning it looks like it will be easy. But after a few days on a lower dose problems start, and theres no coming back. I spent 6 months to come from 22.5mg mirtazapine to zero, and now I think it was too fast. I finished it 21 days ago; the first 10 days were manageable, but then it started to get worse each day.
Another thing I learned is that splitting the dose along the day, instead of taking just one, helps a lot. I dont know it will work for everybody, but it did for me with rivotril, trileptal and mirtazapine. My hypothesis is that W/d symptoms are more or less proportional to the variation of the concentration of the drug in the blood during the day. But even splitting the dose in 3 was a painful process for me.
I know what you mean by the feeling of that pill waiting for us every day. If you decided to stop it, go ahead!
Now that I finished mirtazapine, I learned that Inderal, that I started taking to lessen the mirtazapine W/D symptoms, is also very difficult to wean off But this is subject for another board.
Good luck!
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