Posted by Sad Panda on March 9, 2004, at 8:56:01
In reply to Remeron Side Effects, posted by tjej on March 8, 2004, at 14:31:25
> I know a lot of these were covered as I read through a lot of the posts, but I wanted to share some effects and get some feed back and compare notes, I think this is a new enough med that we are still kind of guinea pigs.
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> I have never had good sleep all my adult life and I have used just about everything, but remeron gives me the deepest sleep I think I ever had. The only thing is that lately I have been waking again in the night, though very briefly usually during a very vivid dream actually. I have been on Remeron at only 15mg for about 8 weeks. I also sweat in my sleep and I never did that before. I convinced myself I had hiv as I am a hypochondriac as well but my doctor assured me that I did not, so the only thing it could be is the remeron. It is not drenching nightsweats but rather I wake up hot and sweaty like a child. Does anyone else experience this? I also have very dark urine in the morning, sorry to share that but I wondered again if anyone else had this?
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> Finally, I read about the sex drive loss with some of you, and they say that is not a side effect but I have had absolutely no sex drive since about two weeks after starting remeron.
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> I am sure that it is helping with my sleep but not so certain it is helping my depression, I have cried a lot since I began treatment, just all of a sudden. My doctor says this is the depression lifting but I am not so sure I feel quite a bit more apathetic than before as if life is just there, I am neither enthusiastic nor phased by anything,nothing excites me at all, except the bouts of crying I have little emotion left in fact. Has anyone experienced this?
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> As for weight gain, yes and I am happy as I was emaciated from not eating before due to my depression, my entire family suffers from it and this has been a hard year as my younger sister tried to kill herself and subsequently had shock treatments and I just spiralled from there,though I am usually the strongest of us all, in fact I am hiding my depression from my family. But back on the topic of weight gain, is it a metabolic change or is it because we eat more? I tend to think it is metabolic as I am not eating that much fattening food though I am hungry almost all the time. Any answers would help.
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>Hi,
Remeron isn't really a totally new med, it's a revamped version of an old best seller called Mianserin. The main changes between the two are Remeron is more sedating & has less to orthostatic hypotension.
I don't experience night sweats, but it does seem to be a fairly common side effect of a lot of AD's, it may pass with time. I think the weight gain is from eating & sleeping more, not from metabolic change.
Cheers,
Panda.
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