Posted by Latinlover on October 21, 2002, at 14:56:18
Just been on Remeron for a week and a half. Two things: it really works and it causes no sexual side effects at all. That is enough for me to continue using it. It does cause sedation, but the day sleepiness desappeares after a few days.
The inmediate sedation and sleepiness, though, is very strong and knocks me out like half an hour after I take it every night. But, again, I'm only starting to take it. I'm in 30 mg because my doctor told me to do so (of course, I began taking only 1/4 of a pill and rose it gradually to 1 whole pill), but I don't know if it's too much. Maybe it's enough for me whith half a pill, but I have heard that the sedation decreases after a few days after rising the dosage, because it developes toleration, so I'll obey my doc.
Among the side effects, it causes me a lot of pressure in the nose area and, sometimes a little in the ears (like when taking off and landing in an airplane). It is not a false sensation, I really have preassures and voids of air in my nose, and sometimes I can feel the air deppressurizing a little, even making noise. It's like when you block your nose with your fingers and try to blow or breathe through it.
I have also experience a lot of bad temper, but extremely bad temper. It's even scary. Yesterday I was driving in my car with my girlfriend in the middle of a heavy traffic and very hurried and I became so angry and crazy that I began to shout extremely loud and to hit the horn of the steering wheel so fast and hard with my fist that I hurt my arm. I ended up very tired, tense and sweaty and my girlfriend later told me yhat she thought I was going to hit her. God knows I would never do that. The truth is that lately, I am shouting to her and scolding her a lot. I can't help it, but every single thing she says is sounding stupid and irritating to me. Also, I have noticed that I don't like being caressed, touched or teased in this drug, I find it like suffocating. I have never being like that. Another thing that I have noticed is that animals, specially cute, little ones, are inspiring me cruelty, yes, cruelty! Whenever I see a little dog or cat I feel that I want to do very cruel things to it. I AM NOT LIKE THAT AT ALL! And now I am hearing a little whistle in my head. And the pressure!
Another thing is that when I recieve a little scare, like when someone scares my for fun, I get a really BIG scare. I feel my adrenaline going up very quickly and then going back down also very qwickly. It's like having vertigo. This things makes you loose control of your adrenaline!
It is important also to mention that Last week I withdrawed from Effexor, so it's difficcult to know which of the effects were caused by the Remeron and which of them were caused by the Effexor withdrawal. During this week, I have being replacing the Efexxor with Fluoxetine and the withdrawal effects of Effexor have finally disappeared. Today I will take the last Fluoxetine pill and then I will go on only with the Remeron.
I have not experienced important waight gain, because I am a natural thin person. But I am eating like an animal. I am eating everything in the refrigerator. I look like a danm pot smoker!
Paradoxically, I have noticed relatively little interference with alcohol, but only at low or regular amounts.
That is only part of my experience. It sounds negative, but, at I said, only the fact that it has no adverse sexual side effect and that it works is enough for me to consider it excellent compared with other drug.
Please mail me if you have information about when this symptoms go away and if they even go away at all.A quick answer will be very useful, because maybe I will be better with just 15 mg., but I'm afraid that if I stay too long with 30 mg. I might develop a resistence to the antidepressive effect of the medicine and that then it may not work if I go back to 15 (does this even happen?).
Thanx.
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