Posted by musky on April 1, 2006, at 17:43:59
In reply to Re: mirtazapine/remeron updates?, posted by pinkeetoz on March 31, 2006, at 18:42:24
> Hey Pinkeetoz:
Ready for this?? my whole remeron story started when I had a stiff neck and was dizzy , unbalanced and ringing in the ears...
That led to a many tests looking for the cause .
The dr. started me on ativan, then vertigo meds, then serax, then he sent me to an ear specialist, which by this time I couldnt work and was so tired from not sleeping from the ringing in the ears so bad..
Needless to say the ear specialist found nothing wrong with the inner ear.. but yet prescribed amytriptylene at increasing doses to supposedly help with my neck muscles... ya right
this was my first experience with and antidepressant and it was not nice,, ALOT of jerking and then heart palpatations, and then feeling faint and out of breath..
Needless to say this med DID NOT stop the ringing or relax the neck,,
Meanwhile I had become severly anxious and depressed , which i find out later SERAX is very bad for this..
After suffering like this i ended up back to my family doc,, who of course, prescribed PAXIL , and told me i had a chemical imbalance.. ya right!! I was soooo drugged up.
48hrs after PAXIL i ended up in psyche ward with SEVERE agitation and such horrible thoughts going throught my head(wanting to get out of my body, and suicidal thoughts and strange fantasies, etc.). I really believed I was going INSANEThats where the Remeron comes in...when i ended up in emerge, a psychiatrist there pumped me chock full of ativan.. (probably to bring me down) and took me off the PAXIL.
Oh , forgot to mention I had weaned myself off the amytriptylene prior to the start of Paxil since the side effects were terrrible..ANyways,,, to summarize this
they said i had OCD which i never had this before
I have been an anxious type personality all my life and my anxiety hit the roof only AFTER all the meds.
I have NEVER BEEN DEPRESSED before ,, normal childhood, NEVER HAD sucidal thoughts before or fantasies etc.SO I believe that my problem started the day I took my first Pill!!
since then my neck problem had been finally helped after 3yrs .. by chiro, and deep tissue massage with active release.
the ringing in the ears was from muscle tension and jaw tension , which now is improved by my treatments .So I think I was totally misdiagnosed and treated like some one with a "disorder" or "imbalance" when ALL I WAS TRING TO DO WAS TO FIND OUT WHY I WAS DIZZY AND TO GET AT MY STIFF NECK!!
Sorry to ramble,,, there is all the details in between,,, but I needed to make a long story short..
This has been my experienceMy acupuncture says that all those drs were doing was putting bandaids on things and not healing my spirit , mind and body...
Its true Ijust hope all these meds havent permanently damaged me...
Im told probably not, but who knows,, I mean they cant get into your body and see every cell and its chemical reactions going on..but i have to stay positive
Acupuncture has helped me with my anxiety and also I did some cognitive thereapy with a great counsellor...just change the way you think
musky
I'm not sure if I've ever asked. What started you guys on Remeron? I have major depression and GAD. pinkeetoz
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