Been prescribed Mirtazapine when I'm already grossly overweight. Any experiences?

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I've been on citalopram and sertraline previously.

I went today as everything is just so much worse.

I was prescribed this.

I'm 5ft5 and 17 stone :(

He said it may increase my appetite. I said I was already really depressed about my weight. He just sort of moved onto the next thing.

Got home and read this...(pic)

I don't know what to do

Should I take it?

I might see if I can get a telephone consult tomorrow

I had to go down at 8am opening to be seen today

Mirtazapine made me less anxious, improved my depression and, although made me a bit zombie like, helped me to feel more like myself after I got used to it.

I’d lost weight in the depths of depression, but Mirtazapine made me very hungry and I put it back on and more. I’d go back and discuss a different med.

I was prescribed this for anxiety...it helped with that but I was ravenous.

Has anyone found weight gain with Amytriptiline? It helps with my sleep. Are all sleep inducing ones, ones that make you gain weight? Does anyone know?

Be warned with duloxetine - I'm on it and the side effects are not nice, and the withdrawal effects are awful - dizziness, sickness, brain fog.

@CatMuffin Amitriptyline was the very first antidepressant I was put on. I gained a huge amount of weight but I was also on the maximum dose, I think around 150mg.

I was a lot hungrier on them so I knew early on I would gain weight.

It’s mostly tricyclic antidepressants that cause weight gain. Out of the newer ones, the one least likely to lead to weight gain is duloxetine but as I said up thread it a nightmare to come off or even reduce the dose for a lot of people.

I read mirtazapine actually affects some peoples basal metabolic rate so its not even necessarily possible to control weight gain with diet. I put on 3 stone on it, even though I ate carefully and took up running, all the weight came off easily when I stopped.

Tough one OP, I sympathise. Without meaning to sound patronising, have you tried other things like mindfulness, exercise , etc?

Thanks Blackredblack

Sorry, I wasn’t trying to say you should be fat and happy, I was just saying that the alternative was worse for me. I don’t plan on being on if forever, I have 3 stone to lose. But it’s helping me right now and I’m not sure I’d be here without it. I hope you find something that works for you

I work in mental health, it's a good antidepressant but we will always prescribe Mirtazapine if someone's appetite is reduced as it makes most people eat more than usual.

It made me put on weight and hungry, i asked and changed to Fluoxetine instead. It is less sedating and more stimulating though

Yes as dotty says I heard it is used in anorexia for example