Posted by ravenstorm on May 31, 2004, at 23:24:09
In reply to Re: how can 22.5 of remeron be more sedating than 15mg » ravenstorm, posted by Sad Panda on May 31, 2004, at 22:48:36
Sad Panda--
Are you saying that an increased dosage would actually make the blood sugar thing worse??
Before seeing your post, I decided to only take 15mg tonight, anyway, so I can go to work tomorrow. The sedation was just incredible today at 22.5mg. I couldn't even do anything until 4pm, even after 12 hours of sleep. I feel guilty now though. . .like maybe I should try 30mg for a week and then 45mg.
I don't want to add an SSRI. I just can't seem to tolerate them anymore after the severe paxil withdrawal. I have taken every one of them except effexor-SNRI (several for only a few days, however). I won't take effexor, because if I had severe protracted paxil withdrawal that made me worse then I'm sure I'd have the same problem with effexor.
Also, I want to switch to the ensam patch if it ever comes out and I don't want to go through a wash out period.
On 15mg I wake up early (6:00am) and struggle to get back to sleep.
I know everybody thinks manerix is weak, but I'm toying with buying it online and trying it. I would think it would be safe with the 15mg remeron since apparently even nardil and parnate are.
I really didn't expect all this trouble bumping up a crummy 7.5mg. In fact, I thought by going slow I would avoid all unpleasant side effects and then bump up to 30mg the next week.
I was looking back over old remeron posts and there were a lot of people on 45mg who had never felt better than on remeron. I never thought I'd never have the chance to increase my dosage!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was actually slurring my words on 22.5.
Until my pdoc gets back, I'm going to add some fish oil and maybe order some manerix.
As always Sad Panda, thanks for your time.
Chairman MAO thanks for the input as well. Maybe next weekend I'll consider trying 30mg instead. But seeing as I just missed the enitre holiday weekend with no benefits to show for it, I don't know if I'll be willing to do it again!
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