Posted by crittercuddler on December 13, 2008, at 14:14:22
In reply to Re: SSRI insomnia, restlessness, poor concentratio » crittercuddler, posted by raisinb on December 13, 2008, at 11:04:04
I have tried Remeron. I tried it once along with Nortriptyline for a two week trial of both medicines, both at the starting dose. This first time the combination seemed to depress me more. I felt so apathetic and just odd. I woke up from a dream and thought I saw a spider hanging from my doorway. It really scared me as I have never had anything like that happen before. I couldn't be sure if it was the Remeron or the nortriptyline.
I tried Remeron again for one dose a few months ago. This time I had some difficulty falling off to sleep and then when I was asleep I had very disturbing dreams like none I had ever experienced before. It was like I was half awake and half asleep, like I could feel the incredible urge in my muscles to act out my dream or that the struggle I was feeling in my dream seemed very real like I was partly concious and experiencing it. Very scary and very odd.
These two experiences have thus scared me from taking it.
I also read that it can lose its effectiveness fast and might cause a feeling of depersonlization. These are claims I read online, each I saw only the one time each, but reading those things caused me to be even more leary of it.
I have been dealing with depersonilization from the benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome and severe depression I have, so I definitely don't want that.
It is difficult for me trying to get on a medicine with my OCD so rampant because when I get a scary side effect I start to worry it will never go away and I get scared and stop taking it. It really kicks up my fears of hurting my brain somehow.
I must clarify however that I am sure that my intolerance of SSRIs is not a product of the OCD medicine fears... I really can't tolerate them. I admit though with other meds I could likely try them longer than I have.
Can you talk to me more about the novel anti-depressants you mentioned?
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