Coming off medication

[BurntSausage]

Has anyone got any experiences of coming off mirtazipine and quetiapine?

I’m on 45mg of mirtazipine and 150mg of quetiapine and it’s really wiping me out. Been on them both for three years at that dose, longer than that on smaller doses.

I feel like absolute shit. It’s always been hard but it seems to have got worse. If I go to bed at 7pm I could easily not get up again until 10am. It’s got to the point where if I know I’ve got to do something the next day I don’t take my tablets the night before. Bad I know. I nearly fell asleep just on my bus to work and feel like I’m wading through treacle.

I asked my psychiatrist if I could come off and he said why rock the boat. I might go to my GP but they usual say they can’t interfere with the psychiatrist. I’m really desperate. Any advice gratefully received.

Have you had blood test recently?
Maybe nothing to do with meds
Thyroid? Menopause?

I think I’d check blood first, as it’s notorious coming off ad’s to be very hard
If you do though do it very slowly
Over months rather than weeks

Many find when they have come off, few weeks/mths later there back on them. So frustrating
You may be a lucky one, as where all different

Thanks for replying @granadagirl I’ve had lots of blood tests over the last few years. I’m b12 deficient so have quarterly injections (due next week actually, hmm that might be a factor but I asked them to check if I needed them more regularly because I’ve gone to the GP feeling knackered before but they said every 12 weeks is fine 🤔). I take vitamin D and iron tablets too.

I’ve been feeling a lot better mentally. I was in a very bad place when I started taking these. The thought of being on them forever and being zombified for the rest of my life is a grim prospect though.