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[racjen]

Well after a promising start it's all going down the pan again. Up until the weekend the mirtazapine seemed to be gradually helping - certainly the morning anxiety was getting less and I generally felt a bit brighter. But today (two weeks in) the anxiety was worse than ever, had been gradually creeping back, and I feel really depressed and crying a lot. I thought it was supposed to be worse for the first couple of weeks, then gradually improving, not the other way round. I was just getting to the point where I could dare to hope I might keep on feeling better and get some semblance of a normal life back, but looks like yet again it ain't going to happen. Will stay on it for as long as I can in the hope that this is just a blip, but feeling really disheartened right now  .

[racjen]

I don't think they'll let me up the dose till I've been on it for 6 weeks, so I'll just have to see if I continue getting worse and how long I can stand it.

[Tc]

Let's hope it is as you say just a blip. Racjen. It's hard when you see progress and then have a bad day to not think the worse but the chances are it is just that.  A bad day
Sending you loads off love and be kind to yourself  today. I realy have got everything crossed for you (although my legs are permanently crossed these days!!)
Big hugxx

[racjen]

Sadly I don't think it is just a blip - anxiety has been increasing since Saturday, and this does tend to be the pattern with me and ADs - it takes a while for whatever does the damage to build up in my brain and then wham, I'm feeling really really crap. Opposite pattern to what you're led to expect - first 2 weeks crap then it starts to get better. Only 2 weeks in so another 4 weeks till they'd let me up the dose, but given what I've just said that dosen't sound like a great idea anyway...x

[CLKD]

So ring your GP!

[Tc]

I also think maybe you should talk to the doc who prescribed racjen. The two week window has passed so you seem to be having side effects outside of that  can you get in touch with the doc easily?

[CLKD]

If this really doesn't suit you  then the reason why needs to be sorted.  There really is no point in taking a drug which increases symptoms that one is trying to ease.  These symptoms can be scary particularly when 1 doesn't know how long they will last or if they will increase 

[racjen]

I had already spoken to my GP - she doesn't really know what to do but has advised that I try and stay on it a bit longer to see what happens. As for the psychiatrist who prescribed it, in my experience they're not really interested if you can't tolerate the drug, there's not a lot more they can do except keep on prescribing different drugs, which in my case all seem to have the same effect.

[Karen max]

Hi rachen
They give me mirtazapine 15mg and up the dose every 4 weeks until I reached 45mg
I never suffered anxiety in my life until I started taking mirtazapine
I was on them 2 weeks when the side effects started hitting me ,doc said I needed dose increased 18 months later I was took of them and almost 2 yrs later I'm still getting withdrawals from mirtazapine
Feel free to send me a PM abd il explain more to you ..

Hope your feeling better

Kaz x

[Tc]

I have found that too in my own experience. The way phychiatrists work is to just keep going through the list of ADs. If one doesnt suit or gives you side effects then it's on to the next.
Are you going to do as GP suggested and stick with them?
X

[CLKD]

It's like they don't believe the patient who has unexpected effects .......... although their hands are tied unless a sufferer can be admitted to be checked etc..

[Tc]

I'll second that birdy
We actually have a massive amount of inner strength to get through what we have and are going through..
And to keep talking is the most important thing  that's why this forum is so important
Xxx 

[CLKD]

4 me it's the physicality throughout my body: Initially panic which begins in my gut, moves 2 my thighs and into my calfs so that I have to sit down.  Then I curl into a ball.  Adrenaline feels like very hot water coursing through my veins, frit the Life out of me the 1st few times 

It doesn't help that I know these feelings are 'natural'.  Why don't they naturally bugga off and leave me alone ............ 

Depression wasn't just in my head, it was throughout - when I came out of a bad few weeks I would ache, inside and out.  Even my shadow ached.  I NEVER want to feel so frightened.

[CLKD]

I've tried everything except yoga over the years.  I have tapes - remember those  - of relaxation therapy.  I would sit down with  on my lap and drop off to sleep whilst the tape ground on and on and .......... relaxation therapy rarely worked quickly enough.

Anti-histamines to help me sleep the feelings away, emergency drugs to hand; always.  Walking but I couldn't go far from the house 

[CLKD]

I sing under my breath sometimes unless I'm really anxious.  I find washing up whilst watching the birds in the garden helpful. It means that I'm grounded in 1 place and trying to re-focus my brain.