Remeron and depression

My psychiatrist has me on two 20mg Adderall everyday. He just added Remeron to my cycle and it ruined everything! It's hard to find something for anxiety/depression that works with the Adderall well. I've tried everything but this one scares me. SSRIs and SNRIs usually make my head tingle, more anxious than usual, and unpredictable mood-wise. After starting Remeron for about a week, I had a massive strange hours long panic attack. I tried to slit my ankle, screamed and yelled things at everyone I came into contact with, walked off down the street three separate times (three diff. people had to come find me every time). My skin felt "creepy-crawly" and I was SO angry and couldn't get away from the anger. I'm still waiting on the Dr. to call me but I told his secretary I just am NOT taking it. I'll take the nerves, shakiness, and sweatiness ANY DAY over feeling crazy like that. Angry and wanting to die.. not for me.

I have had some interesting times with Remeron. I take 30 mg at night. I have gained about 20 pounds on it! It is true what others have written here it makes some people have an eating compulsion. It is hard to describe the feeling but at night you feel like you are forever hungry. I have found I can cope with this hunger side effect by carefully watching what I am eating and switching to healthy snacks like fruits and veggies. I have been on it for 6 months. I tried to go off the medication several days ago but I felt so depressed being off it. I think some of the depression is withdrawal from it. It helps me sleep better and lowers anxiety during the day. It cuts back my panic attacks also. I would not recommend it if you are already a heavy eater. I can imagine it would have a disastrous wait gain. Remeron makes you sleepy too during the day. I find I have to give myself 11 hrs for the sedation to wear off. So I take it at 9:30 and go to bed at 10:00. If I take it later I have problems staying awake at work. Even with the hunger problem and sedation I plan to stay on this medication since it has helped my depression and it doesn't have GI upset I had with Lexapro or Effexor. If you have sleep problems and anxiety Remeron might help you. Make sure you keep up with exercise and watch portion control with food and you can cope with the side effects.

I have been on Remeron for 3months, and have went from 125 lbs. to 144 lbs. I want to eat all the time, especially at night. I always feel hungry. I also feel like my legs are swollen, and they ache when I walk on the treadmill, trying to exercise and quit gaining. The depression is better, and I sleep very well, but I am going to really get depressed about my sudden weight gain. Never was this big, except at 9 months pregnant. I am stopping this drug. I also have numbness in my right hand. I don't know what that is from. Last of all, I am more forgetful, and a little OCD now about things.

My mother has been on Remeron for four years. She started for depression and received the prescription from a psychiatrist. Our family raised questions about the drug with her psychiatrist after she began to have rage issues and became very disagreeable. My mother and her psychiatrist insisted the was doing fine on the medicine. Since that time things have only escalated. She now gets Remeron from her family doctor. She has become more and more enraged, throwing things and has gotten physical with my father, her husband of 46 years. He has been living with my sister for the past month because of her extreme behavior. She is estranged from all family, (except one son) and friends because of her behavior. We are very concerned for her. She has denied still taking Remeron but we did not believe this. And has recently found she has a newly filled prescription for 30mg.
I have called her doctor and relayed all of her extreme behavior. Just hope and pray he does not continue to prescribe this drug for her. It has torn my entire family apart. Any suggestions would be welcomed.

My father who is going to be 80 on July 15th started taking remeron back in January of 2008 for depression he was in and out hospital and rehab since October. He almost died in October but he fought his way and hes physically doing better now. He was put on remeron cuz his depression was so bad that he just wante to give up, he started on half a pill at bed time..(7.5 i believe) he was doing his exercises and again..he bounced back from a deep depression within days :) February 7th 2008 my dad finally came home after being away for 4months he became very very talkative like hyper, couldn't sleep and got agitated very easily(thats not my dad) on June 18th 2008 the doctor that comes to the house asked what was going on..i told her HES NOT SLEEPING..and hes very like hyper, so she INCREASED HIS REMERON!!! full dose 15mg. well.. July 2nd things changed for the worse, He talked about things that happened years ago, he went as far back as the days of THE DEPRESSION..yeaaaars ago;
just things he never talked bout before...July 3rd he was showing signs of being VERY LOST..VERY DISORIENTED...like he would get up to use his potty(as he calls it) and thats rite next to his bed, and he went rite past it and into my kitchen way. just standing there, NOT KNOWING WHERE HE WAS. and he would repeat himself over and over and over, not remembering what he said, :( very sad )
The 4th of July i had him taken to the HOSPITAL to be checked out cuz he just wasn't acting right, i thought maybe he was on the verge of another stroke his BP was 150/101 HIGH....i think maybe cuz of the agitation,(HE GOT MAD...DIDN'T WANT TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL: )but i needed to know what was going on..they sent him home, they said possible early dymentia, NOT..i don't agree....june 18th -july 2nd IS EXACTLY 2 WEEKS..WHICH IS HOW LONG IT TAKES FOR MEDICATION TO GET INTO THE SYSTEM...i believe its the REMERON causing these problems.i took him to his psych and he asked my what was it increased? i said the doc increased it cuz he wasn't sleeping, well the psych was NOT HAPPY wit this...he was like U CANT DO THAT ITS NOT FOR SLEEP ITS FOR DEPRESSION..U DO THAT AND UR GONNA HAVE BIG PROBLEMS.... Well thats exactly what we are having.So then i was told to decrease him back down to 7.5 and if no change in a week -2 weeks...to stop it...well im stopping it tonight. I am hoping to see him better soon..if anyone agrees with me PLEASE LET ME KNOW...he was perfectly fine b4 the increase in this medication...BESIDE THE EXCESSIVE TALKING..but i am willing to deal that..i just want him back to the way he was. Its soo frustrating and sad to see him this way :(

I was prescribed Remeron (Avanza in Australia) for a neurotransmitter deficiency that was causing "depression-like" symptoms including lack of energy, low libido, poor sleep, pessimistic thoughts, brain fog etc etc. I really wanted to give Remeron a good try because most other anti-ds that I've taken have an even worse effect on my sleep. Remeron was good taken at 30mg to help me sleep (I found 15mg knocked me out even more and was ridiculously tired the next day). I however progressively slipped into depression over a period of 3 weeks where I had zero energy, complete apathy and was really irritable to the point of having a massive blow up with family and girlfriend. I was told these effects would lessen in time and I would feel "lighter" and "better" - This didn't happen at 4 weeks and although I should keep going at a higher dose before knowing for sure if this medication doesn't work for me, I read on this page that feelings of irritability and agitation continue while on the med - This is cause enough for me to not be on this medication. Within 48 hours of stopping, I feel better already! Remeron - apparently works for most but not for me.

I began 15mg of Remeron per day about 1 month ago. At first, it was wonderful. I slept better than I had in years and my depression was reduced greatly. I felt hope for the first time in ages. However, about a week into it, I started to become aggitated VERY easily. I would get angry at anything. This has not subsided at all...in fact, it's worse. Now I wake in the middle of the night with my mind racing and either in a rage or STARVING. I eat a lot. It's nice to have my appetite back, but I crave sweets too much. I can accept that symptom if it wasn't for the rage and inability to stop my mind from switching between utter numbness to anger. I'm going to give it longer, in the hopes that it brings me back to where I was when I started taking it. If this keeps up though, I'll be in trouble.

hey my name is kaylen and i have been taking remeron for about 5 months now. i liked it at first as it definetly helped me sleep soundly and not wake up to a throbbing head. i especially liked that it helped me to concentrate about 50% better than i had been after a sudden and unexplainable extremely deep depression. i have been diagnosed with bipolar and OCD and have been on a host of other medications but am now on lithium, klonopin, seroquel, and remeron. the thing that irritates me about remeron is how HUNGRY i have been. and its not even that...i eat when i am not hungry at all, i just cant stop it. i have gained 50+ pounds in 5 months and i cannot understand why this medicine has to have this effect. can anyone relate?

I was on 30 mg of remeron for 7 months for depression. This drug is a nightmare! Severe cravings for sweets, and an unsatified hunger that nothing seemed to please me at night, munched about anything. I gained weight and slept through about anything at all. 3 months ago I developed a constant anger/rage feeling, and I was ready to take on anybody who crossed me. Sometimes I even became violent, I would break things, scream and yell at my BF for no reasons at all. BF left a few times, and friends stopped coming around. I felt like I was going insane. I would be happy one minute, and then either angry or sad and crying for no reason at all. I have started to ween myself off this drug for 8 weeks. I DO NOT recommend remeron.

When I took it, it was because I was only able to naturally sleep 1h per night, and after a month of this I was fairly suicidal. It did knock me out, hard, and it kept doing so every night I took it. I slept at least 10h a night and was groggy most of the time. It did decrese my anxiety and my chronic pain though and got me to sleep at night, so all that was good. Plus I do tend to not eat enough, so this increased my appetite, and I agree it increased cravings for sweets, but I needed it since I was working out 5 days a week. Now that I am off it, my shoulder hurts to much to work out at all anymore, and I still have trouble sleeping, but my depression is under control so I'd rather not take it just to sleep better. I will have to find some other way to control chronic pain so I can get back to the gym.

I have been taking Remeron for two weeks and have gained 15 pounds. I no longer have the ability to tell when I am full until it is way past too late. I have exercised every day since I've been on the medication except one, and even this hasn't stopped the pounds from accumulating.

I've been taking remeron for about 3 months and I have gained 15-20lbs. It increased my appetite especially at night. I would have an intense cravings for sweets, and it seemed like I never would get full. I hate this, everyone keeps asking me why am I gaining so much weight. I tell them its the remeron, and they all think I should just stop taking it, but it's not that simple. I've been struggling w/ extreme insomnia and depression for 2 years, with little or no relief from many other meds. It helps me sleep most of the time, but I don't know if it's really helping my deppresion. I'm going to speak w/ my doc about trying something else because I can't stop gaing weight, and that makes me even more depressed.

My husband has been taking Remeron for about a week. The first effect was, totally knocked out and slept for almost 24 hours. That soon wore off and now he is abusing the drug he takes not the 2 at bed time but 4 throughout the night. He has used up 22 pills in one week. He is not sleeping at all and is extreamly diffacult to live with. He is edgy & rude to me and our 16 year old daughter. He feels like he can do and say anything, not just to us but to anyone. He also had nightmares and talked all night in his sleep when he was taking 30mg a night. I hate this drug and what it is doing to our family. My husband has a brain injury(1988) but he has few motor skill problems just depression and cognitive trouble. Has anyone had suicidal thoughts? He has had them in the past and I'm hopeing we won't have to go through that again. He cut his wrist in 2001, and spent 2 weeks in the mental hospital. I know this is an extream case but I need help.

Have been on remeron (15mg) for one week. Had been on paroxetine (30mg) for depression but unable to sleep. Very tired, increased appetite, very vidid dreams and night sweats (totally drenched) Good drug apart from dreams and night sweats. Depression lifted

No side effects and works pretty good for my depression.
--Chris

weight gain, very vivid dreams, difficulty falling asleep after being on drug for over one year, tired feeling throughout the day, minimal relief from depression, weight gain is the worst-never had this problem before, no energy to exercise.

No side effects to speak of. Helps with the depression but not with sleep. Unsure whats appropriate dosage