Posted by raisinb on September 15, 2008, at 19:17:59
I started Remeron a little over a week ago. Welloft was working great for depression, but I wasn't gaining the weight I'd lost from depression, and my sleep was still iffy.
My pdoc has me titrating up very slowly--3.75 mg for a week, and I just went up to 7.5. I'm also tapering off Zoloft--was on 100 mg, now I'm down to 50 this week.
The good news is, it's the best sleep med I've ever tried. I sleep so deeply and it's tough to get up in the morning. I think it might be increasing my appetite a little, too, though it's too early to tell whether it will help me gain weight or not (which I need).
The bad news is, I feel more depressed. I feel kind of groggy, disconnected from my life and emotions, and when I do feel, I feel low, empty, and sad. It kind of feels like I'm watching my life on TV instead of living it. Part of the low mood might be those super-vivid dreams. I have trouble getting rid of the emotional hangover from them. If I'm sad or angry in a dream, it's so real that I can't get rid of that feeling for the rest of the day. Then it's time to take another dose and it happens all over again the next day. It's hard to tell if the low mood is from tapering off my other meds, or if it's the Remeron.
Any advice or experiences for getting through these first few weeks? Did anyone else have these side effects, and if so, did they go away once you got up to a regular dosage and adjusted?
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