Posted by johnj on December 28, 2007, at 8:38:44
In reply to Remeron - suicide?, posted by g_g_g_unit on December 27, 2007, at 21:54:23
I have been on remeron twice. I have anxiety/ocd(pure O). Remeron made my ocd worse. I didn't quite know it at the time because I hadn't been properly diagnosed but it made me very combatative and there were times I would wake up and just lay there thinking I would like to die. I slept better as that was a big problem but I was always angry. It made me get stuck on things and it was hard to let them go. I would started day dreaming a lot. It made me feel outside of my body. It is hard to explain but I don't think it is any good for ocd. I was mainly on 15 mg but did push it to 30 mg but that was not good as it made me very spacey and out of it.
I can't take ssri's as they cause way too much anxiety. Benzo's are not for me either. I was on them for 10 years and they made me depressed and killed my REM sleep. Right now, I am on nothing and my ocd comes and goes. The anxiety is better but I still have problems but meds didn't help me very much. I have looked into Lyrica or Depakote if I have to go back on something.
I stayed on remeron for 6 months last spring and summer hoping it would even out. It never did and it caused a lot of chest and stomach tension that has finally abated after 5 months of being off it. In a nutshell, it is not good for ocd, IMHO.
Have you tried anafranil? Do you metabolize meds slow or fast? As my pdoc and I have talked about low doses of anafranil at about 25 mg as that has helped some people. I metabolize slow so large doses create too many side effects to allow me to continue. What else have you tried as remeron for ocd is kind of a stretch.
regards,johnj
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