and am asking my regular doc to prescribe something else. i don't think that the Pdocs that i see know diddly ---- about my head. the nightmares are driving me nuts and the bad is out weighing the good here.

i'm extremely frustrated and scared and i feel that i have to just take my treatment back to my regular doc and try to tweak things til i get to texas and get another Pdoc....

any helpful ideaas? love, pat

[Larry_Hoover]

Have you tried St. John's wort?

You can take as much or as little of it as suits you.

Lar

[bandia]

Hi, Pat ... I'm new here, but reviewed some of your previous posts about Remeron, bcz I used to be on it. I had night sweats ... and vivid dreaming, not necessarily bad. (I'm a vivid, 5 senses, lucid dreamer, so if there were differences, they would've been lost on me.) I was Rx'ed for insomnia when nothing else worked. I take Paxil for my D. The 1st time I went on Remeron, I took myself off (which I never do) within 2 weeks bcz it intensified the D. The 2nd time, I stuck with it for a number of mths, but when I cycled into the deepest D ever, they immediately took me off it & increased my Paxil. I refuse to ever take it again. There's too many other options. Best of luck to you. I look forward to talking to you on line.

actually, larry.....thanks for reminding me of St. JOhn's wort.....i haven't tried it but will go get it......my regular doc told me to just quit the remeron. thank god!

bandia, thanks for your response. my dreams/nightmares have gotten worse and worse. and not sleeping throughout the night really gets you down.......

as soon as i get to Austin, i'm going to try and start some of this over. i'd like to have a Pdoc that really is interested in prescribing what works.....trying remeron just wasn't for me.....xoxoxo pat

[Butterfly_Faerie]

I did not like Remeron at ALL I posted in that post I believe called Lorazepam and Remeron. I shared my expierence with it there.
I've been on a few different medications, and for me personally the one that worked the best for me and still continues to is Effexor XR. However some people had terrible expierences on it, so I guess I got lucky, aparently it's one of the best medications to be on right now for depression.

I'd talk to your doctor though, figure out your different options.