Posted by bleauberry on June 9, 2009, at 18:51:25
In reply to Remeron REMEORN REMERON!!! mystery...., posted by uncouth on June 9, 2009, at 17:32:22
At askapatient.com or revolutionhealth.com you will find a few people that did very well with remeron. Overall, not. I don't know how it looks so good in clinical trials. I think maybe the depression scores in the categories of sleep, appetite, and anxiety improve so much that it appears numerically to have had a strong antidepressant effect. When overall when you look at just its effect on depressed mood itself, maybe not that strong of an effect? Just a thought.
I like to read the stuff Dr. Gillman has to say at psychotropical.com. Check it out. His experience with remeron was poor and he doesn't have much good to say about it except that it is probably the world's most potent antihistamine.
I was on it for a year trying to augment prozac. Honestly it did nothing more than prozac was already doing. It had zero effect on anhedonia. But it was good as a knockout sleep aid and it was good for increasing appetite. The sleep however was the kind filled with wild bizarre vivid dreams. Withdrawal from it was prolonged and difficult.
As a sleep aid, I think people dose it too high. Anything in the range of 4mg-7.5mg is really potent for sleep, more so than a higher dose. For me anyway.
Personally I think the clinical trials and meta-analysis of its greatness are flawed and misleading. That doesn't mean it doesn't work like a miracle for someone else, but I just haven't seen it that often no matter where I look.
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