Posted by bohemian grove on February 5, 2009, at 14:09:03
In reply to Remeron/Klonopin Withdrawal, posted by TimeLord on January 19, 2009, at 12:03:43
Finally someone with the same experience. Welcome to phase IV trials.
My experience with mirtazipine/remeron:
I discontinued klonopin/clonazepam after ten years. I had been to the ER half a dozen times after running out of it.
The pain of clonazepam withdrawal was NOTHING compared to remeron.
Remeron withdrawal was the worst pain I have ever experienced.
The doctors I saw did not believe that an antidepressant could cause this.
What did it feel like? The best analogy I can think of: it felt like I was being IMPALED.
It went away INSTANTLY with the smallest dose of remeron.
I had run out of refills and could not obtain any more. The pharmacy advanced me two tablets. I swallowed them and drove home. Half way home I had to stop to vomit all over my car and then the street.
And I did not withdraw from it abruptly, but over the course of a month. By the end I was crushing the tablets and diluting the powder in water.
It sounds hard to believe, I know.
I have tried to stop again and am down to 3 mg. I can't sleep. My internal clock seems set at about 26 h/day.
I was prescribed muscle relaxants for stomach spasms. It had no effect.
Remeron can also cause a hypertensive emergecy when used with clonidine.
Good luck making any doctor listen to you when it's a psychiatric drug. In general they don't know anything the drug companies don't tell them.
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