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Nov 29, 2015, 06:40 AM
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Since I started remeron I hardly sleep through the night anymore. It sucks and makes me almost miss zyprexa
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#2
Nov 29, 2015, 04:28 PM
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How much are you on? The lower the dose the more sedating it is. 15 mg or 7.5 mg tend to be pretty sedating while 60 mg was not sedating for me at all (which was perfect at the time).
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Nov 29, 2015, 06:59 PM
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I was put on just this and it induced my first mania. Yay....
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Nov 29, 2015, 10:07 PM
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Im on 30. 15 didn't help as I was manic.
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Nov 29, 2015, 10:13 PM
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but it works backward so 15 would actually slow you down more. I had a lot of patients who took 7.5 as a substitute for sleeping pills because it is so much more sedating at low doses.
i know that's weird but it's something strange about the drug. It was the only AD that worked for me without making me manic before I was diagnosed so I got to know it pretty well. It's one of the meds that I've taken longest out of all the pile of meds I've been on. In fact for me it actually seemed to work as a mood stabilizer to some extent. But anything less that 45 mg and I was completely knocked out. on 45 mg I could function and was only a little sleepy and on 60 it didn't sedate me much at all. I don't understand how it works but I know it does work that way.
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Nov 29, 2015, 10:46 PM
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Well....that's not what my doctor told me and the higher dose helps me sleep longer than I was, just not as well as when I was taking zyprexa (which was too sedating for me.)
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Nov 29, 2015, 11:13 PM
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Ok. I'm not trying to argue, just that's been my experience and what I've seen with other people. And I've also had a dr who didn't know that and really messed me up. I'm sorry if it came across that way. YOu said you werent' sleeping on it so I just meant to share what I'd learned the hard way. But whatever works is of course the right thing.
BUt I'm glad you are getting some sleep, that's the importantth ing.
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Nov 30, 2015, 12:03 PM
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P.S. I was on 15 mg when it induced the mania
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#9
Nov 30, 2015, 04:26 PM
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Remeron knocked me out too, but it made me eat like a horse so I had to stop. But I agree, it's not as relaxing as Zyprexa. I slept better on that.
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#10
Nov 30, 2015, 07:11 PM
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I started having sleep issues after I started remeron. I know of course zyprexa was more sedating but I hate not sleeping. I was up 23 hrs the other day and wake up at like 4am every day almost and then can't go to sleep til midnight or so.
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#11
Dec 01, 2015, 03:15 PM
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low, low dose of remeron helped the first night only. after that, no significant change in my sleep. waking up a lot to use the bathroom - that was from the lithium, but sound sleep was a faraway hope.
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