Remeron and groggy

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.

My doctor told me for the first two weeks I would feel groggy. So I took my first dose(15 mg.) on Friday night, knowing I didn't have any major plans on Saturday. Well it's a good thing I had no plans, I slept for 30 hours. Yes I do agree about the eating, in between my 30 hours of sleeping I ate tons of food mostly junk! When I did wake up, i was still in a daze, and very irritable(more than before) I'm tring this pill one more night. I'm cutting it in half and if that doesn't work, off to the doctor's I go.