Remeron/Mitrazipine

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I have been on these since February and I am gaining weight weekly!

I crave sugar constantly and could easily each a full pack of biscuits in one sitting.

I would like to stop them so have been cutting down on them, I guess I am just scared to actually come off the final dose and wondered if anyone else has had any experience with these? Or coming off them especially as when I google it is all bad.

My GP added in prozac this week as I have been having terrible nightmares, so wondered if I might be okay to stop? I was taken off them before after going from a size 10 to a size 16 but was put on amytriptyline but my current GP seems reluctant to put me on these.

Any advice/experience would be helpful.

Thanks

Yes, I can relate to that, I never liked coffe/cappachino, I am now buying abox of cappachinos per day and start panicking if I have nothing sweet in the house, so bad that I even eat porridge at 10pm with jam in it

I am now a size 12 but put a pair on this morning and they feel tight!

I look around 15 week pregnant and doing 100 star-jumps each night and 50 sits ups is not helping. I was thinking of a protein only dite but just crave carbs!! I buy in weight watcher meals but then each 20 jaffa cakes, I buy jaffa cakes as they are low in fat... not working! I think I would rather feel anxious/depressed than get any fatter and cannot afford a new wardrobe.

Oh lots of typos, possibly due to the fattness of my fingers.

Yes they are, I am on such a low dose, by cutting myself down I think I may need to just stop now. The insomnia bothers me the most but I think I would rather not sleep than be over-weight!

On a brighter note, I have read of people losing 5lb in one week of stopping, so I think I will just go for it, continue with the fluoxetine and and stop the fat pills.

Since my last post I have ate 7 jaffa cakes, had 5 cappachinos with one sugar, 2 cups of tea (one sugar) a weight watchers (haha) lemon risotto and 2 slces of wholegrain bread, and today has been a good day. Breakfast was 2 slices of wholegrain toast and possibly 5 jaffa cakes throughout the day.

I need to stop buying cappachinos and jaffa cakes.

I have been googliing and googling and apparently they are terrible to come off but I am going to give it a try, if I lie awake I may take 1mg by cutting a pill, but even 1mg makes me eat more!!! So may suffer and get up and read, if I could lose 5lb in one week that would be great!

I was on this one for a short time. I remember the tiredness & sugar cravings. I was eating jelly babies & biscuits all the time. My psychiatrist suggested eating things like meusli bars or dried fruit as you still get the sweetness but it's healthier. I stopped taking it after a few weeks as I didn't feel safe driving & it made my depression worse. I would cut down on the tablets only on the advise of your Dr.

You could try taking a diet sweetener instead of sugar in your coffee too to help reduce the calories a bit. It might help if you are ok with the taste.

Thanks for your replies.

I have tried talking to my GP but he said there is nothing else to help with the insomnia but if we treat the anxiety/depresssion the sleeping should get better and asked if I had thought about excersising. Hence the 100 star-jumps, running up and down the stair and the 50 sit ups but I am still gaining weight and getting larger by the day!

I too was on 45mg, last night it took a tiny tiny bit of one and was awake until around 3am with my mind racing but finally dropped off to sleep and slept fine until around 9am.

I have thought about sweetners but it's the biscuits and bread and well just everything really, I even have such urges to go and buy after-eight ice cream in the slabs, thren can eat a full one in a night.....even last night I felt hungry going to bed after a my meals, I have also thought about buying protein drinks but I am so low on the mitrazipine now I think I may stop and continue with the fluoxetine and see if/how that works.

I may also considering changing GP's if I still have problems sleeping as when this happened last time I was switched to amytriptyine.

I know it seems vain but really do not like the weight gain and do really crave sugary things, I wrote a list of what I ate one day and sent it to a friend on here and should found it unbelivable that I could eat such an an amount in one day.

I will see how the eating goes today as the amount I took last night could only have been 1 or 2 mg. I also don't like the tiredness in the mornings, when I take a full one I could easily sleep for 12 hours solid and they also give me very vivid dreams, mainly about bad things in the past, or what I have done during the day.

Thanks lots for your input.

Funnily enough the last time I was on amytriptyline I changed as a person, I was quite nasty and bitter and in RL I am not like that (much)

I think I may stick with the Prozac I have been on/off them for say 14 years and they seem to give me the lift I need.

The insomnia kicked in when my xhusband left me for a younger version. I think I may be okay on just Fluoxetine, I knew when I started the Mitrazipine there would be weight gain as when I took them last time I grew to a 16 but I don't intend going there again.

Ideally after multiple counselling I hope to one day be anti-depressant free! I was fine before I met EX abusive husband.

On a brighter note, today I have ate 2 slices of wholemeal toast, drank 5 cappachinos with 1/2 a sugar, 2 cups of tea with half a sugar and a dinner of spanish chicken and rice, 2 jaffa cakes and thankfully they are now finished and I feel full.

Which beats Saturday when I had, and this is no joke, I even tried to sleep longer so I am not awake to eat so much but Saturday morning I woke early:

Eggs mashed in a cup with butter and 4 slices of toast.
2 kit-kats (107 calories)

went back to bed as I woke at 5am
woke again at 10am:

Bacon on Wholemeal toast - 3 slices (I read somewhere this is a healthy breakfast)
numerous jaffa cakes
2 low fat baked potatoes with cheese and chives with roast beef, ham, salad onions, tomatoes, coleslaw and 4 slices of wholemeal bread with lurpack.
Tesco low fat meal Sausages and mash with onion gravy and more bread
8 cappachinos, 1 sugar in each
3 cups of tea, 1 sugar in each
porridge with syrup and jam
2 wagon wheels
2 low fat yoghurts

Wow!! Where do I put all that? Possibly my thighs and stomach!!

I don't feel the sugar craving today although did crave a little something sugary after dinner, so have a cup of tea with half a sugar here and had the 2 jaffa cakes, tomorrow I am buying no cappachinos, I only started drinking these when I started Mitrazipine.

I know it's bad isn't it?

The Sunday didn't get much better as I have Sunday lunch with my parents, which is always a roast beef meal with roast potatoes (I adore these anytime), they also had cake and biscuits, apple pie, custard, bloody ice cream and whipped cream, now that's just greed!!

I actually used to get away with jam rolly poly (Oh I ate a full one of them one night too, to the extent of hiding it in the microwave from my DC) with custard! It was my son who got me into mixing the custard with ice cream and whipped cream..... it's just so nice!

When I get back to my normal size I may still indulge in this (if possible) but only on a Sunday!!

I have yawned 3 times now which is good sign and about to take myself off here as PC makes me too alert!

Apparently I suit this extra weight but I just don't have to clothes, I am now down to 1 pair of jeans and one pair of leggings!! The size 12's I put on yesterday were tight, they were okayish last week. I don't like weighing myself, I just go by the clothes but think I must be around 10 stone and 5'8, which is not bad but I will soon have no clothes and cannot afford anymore, I took out a small loan to buy my 12's!! I do have sime 14 from last time I was on Mitrazipine but they are mostly working clothes (office clothes).

Thanks for listening and advising on my ramblings