Posted by jeninco on August 7, 2006, at 14:43:47
In reply to 2 weeks on Remeron, trying to Withdraw, posted by tiredofpanic on August 7, 2006, at 13:41:06
I tried stopping it at 1/4 of a 15 mg pill. I don't recommend it. You definitely have it in your favor that you haven't been on it long, but I would still recommend very gradual. Stopping it cold (even at low dosages) resulted in splitting headache, nauseau and inability to sleep for me.
The deal with remeron is that it has an extremely long half life, so you may not even start to feel the effects until 10+ days after taking the last dose.
What dosage are your pills?
Because you've been on it so short, I don't know what kind of taper you'd be best at.
I'm assuming you're at 1/2 pill now (7.5). You've been at it for something like 11 days, so now try dropping down to 1/2 that. I think I stayed at each dosage for 10 days. If you start feeling sick or anything than you're going too fast. I did still get an occasional head ache but that was it. Just taper down a little more every 10 days and you should be fine, remembering again to slow down the taper if it gets too bad.
You MAY be one of the lucky ones who don't have a hard time with stopping this medication, but man, if you aren't you will be very sorry. You can feel the affects from this for a very long time.
I took it from Nov-April, and only at small dosages (never more than 7.5), and stopping it was pretty hard. I went back to it after about 17 days the first time (after stopping cold turkey at 3.75), and immediately began a very gradual taper. I tapered down to 1/8 of a pill to every night for about 10 days, every other night, every 2nd night, every 3 for a few nights, then I stopped. And I've really had no big problems.
Others here have recommended against my taper, but I have to say, it worked very well for me.
I've been off for 22 days and aside from the occasional headache or mild nauseau here and there (dramamine will fix that), I've been fine.Good luck!
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