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Posted by ziggy2031 on March 20, 2004, at 16:13:15
I was put on Avanza(mirtazapine)(15mG) in January by a GP who said he could see in my eyes that I was depressed. I got more depressed and anxious once I was on it. I had a previous bout of depression 8 years ago so when the GP said I was depressed - I really got permission to be depressed. All along I have felt that the Avanza made me anxious but after 2 weeks I saw a psychiatrist who told me the GP shouldn't have put me on anything and that I was probably stressed and tired. At that stage I was on 30mg so we tried to taper off it but I got worse so we stuck with 30mg then 45mg. 45mg made me TENSE and anxious. My whole face was always tense. We slowly tapered down a bit again to roughly 25mg ( i was shaving off a small piece on the end). This seemed to make me less tense. I have asked to go back to the drug I took 8 years ago (Deptran - doxepin) but the psych wants me to taper off Avanza some more. I have become more and more depressed. Mainly in the mornings. Its as though the meds wear off during the day and by night I'm fine. I feel like the meds cause my depression and anxiety. Then I take them again and the same thing happens the next day. I went to my NEW GP becoz I was in a crisis of depression and he gave me a script for deptran and told me to start taking them concurrently and then gradually we'd taper off each. Is this okay? Any other advice?
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