Posted by musky on May 7, 2006, at 23:56:37
In reply to Finally, posted by johnnyj on May 4, 2006, at 15:53:36
> Good for you johnny,,, keep going no matter what!!! Dont give into the anxiety...
Today i had some really anxious thoughts like I was going to loose it.. this is so strange as i am still on the 2mg(about) dosage... I am being firm on getting off.. I plan to stop completely in about 18days... I kknow that it is still withdrawl... I have done a TON of research on this drug.... Remeron has a very long half life.. 20hrs(or longer depending on metabolism). and did you know that females metabolize drugs much slower than males??? yet the docs rx these meds all the same(figures). So I am thinking when 20hrs have gone by its basically time for the next dose which means that the drug is constantly in my system... so when you taper it isnt completely accurate ,, uyou know what i mean??
I mean yes, we are cutting back the drug but the dose from yesterday is only half gone and that dose is only half gone, etc, etc.... back to the higher doses.. so I can understand how withdrawl takes a LONG time to pass and we must not give into this too soon.
IM expecting this to take at least 6months before out of my system and then another 6months for the body to rebuild ....
good luck
Musky
Well, after a rough few days things have evened out. But dose to 3.75 about 10 days ago. Day 6 through about 8 were not fun. I had a nagging anxiety that I know now was pure withdrawal. No sleep on Sunday night and last night I got about 7 hours with no sleep meds used.
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> I feel that I will dissolve my sol tabs and go down to 1.5 mg and see what happens. I will wait about 10 days before I do that though. The brain needs some time to heal ya know?
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> I was feeling like I wanted to die on Sunday night and Monday. It was that bad. Amazing what an improved nights sleep can do. I just didn't feed the anxiety and just let it pass without a fight. Today I just have a headache and some tight chest stuff, and of course the sponge brain. That is a little better though.
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> Good luck everyone and keep at it. However, we all do what we must to feel better. From what I can tell some needed to go back on and that is ok. You have to please yourself.
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> cheers
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> johnnyj
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