Remeron (Mirtazapine) — Does Anyone Have Problems with It?

My ears are still blasting away, I take 15mg remeron, 2mg lorazepam and 15mg restoril. Does anyone have problems with Remeron?

 

Has anyone heard of remeron causing sudden hearing loss?

 

Hi Bob,
Try doing a search on this forum for 'Remeron' and you'll find a lot of information. I'm one of the people whose tinnitus became worse after taking Remeron. A few years after I quit taking Remeron things starting improving for me though. Personally I would never touch antidepressants again.
All the best, Maria

 

I started getting a lot of body twitching after starting remeron. Haven't touched the drug since and the twitching has disappeared. That said I think body twitching is a side effect of remeron that is quite common when starting dosage and they say it calms down after time. I found it quite scary though.

 

Anyone get tinnitus from mirtazapine? Mine is worse now from mirtz or the two benzos, lorazepam and temazepam.

 

What do you mean by "worse"

 

I think mine got aggravated from mirtazapine. I've been taking it to be able to sleep for a long time now, but only in very small doses - like a crumble out of one pill (so like 2,5-5 mg). Not long ago I tried upping the dose, in order to try whether it would help my anxiety. So I slowly took my dose to 15 mg. I think there was a quite clear increase in my T volume - no new noises or anything, just somewhat higher volume. It would have been worth it, if it cured my anxiety or something, but as it did not help anything, I went back to using it as sleeping aid. The spike I got lasted a couple of weeks maybe, but wasn't permanent.

I think it may have something to do how these medications affect serotonin. There was new research information just months ago that serotonin may worsen tinnitus. It's a bit scary news for some of us, but I think it's better to know and discuss it with doctor than just use medications without knowing the effects. All in all, I think minor increase in T would be worth it if it meant I would be healed from anxiety, OCD etc.

 

Mine is worse now because it's louder and I have the morse code sound too. I'm trying to taper the remeron.

 

I am sceptical about causalities, my T-intensity varies considerably from day to day and I have not yet found any connections... (food, sleep, medicine, weather, stress...).

 

I've been taking it on and off for years. I take a quarter of 15mg every other day and a little temazepam sometimes. I think the mirtazapine makes the electrical static sounds worse for me. My ears have worsened a lot over the years which could have happened anyway or could be related to the mirtazapine and sleep aid combo. Who really knows? I just know that I need help with sleep so I can keep working to support my family. I wish I was completely free of meds but am on very tiny amounts now and not taking every day. But I need sleep to cope. My tinnitus is insanely loud. I can't sleep with this electrical storm in my head, without some help every other day.

 

Do you having beeping morse code sound.?

 

There's only one clinical case reporting sudden hearing loss after taking one pill of 30mg.