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Is Remeron Safe To Take For Depression?
Question: is remeron a good drug for deprssion for an 88year old woman? has had anxiety disorder all her life but only on medication/effexor 150 bid for last 5-7years
very drowsy--skeeps all morning most of the time, sometimes has dreams but nice ones has had a couple of bad ones in last several weeks/on 15mg only with queliapine 12.5 HS maybe--canot confirm this at this time
would it help to decrease Remeron to 15mg so less side effects? biggest side effect is the drowsy cannot stay awake
very drowsy--skeeps all morning most of the time, sometimes has dreams but nice ones has had a couple of bad ones in last several weeks/on 15mg only with queliapine 12.5 HS maybe--canot confirm this at this time
would it help to decrease Remeron to 15mg so less side effects? biggest side effect is the drowsy cannot stay awake
Brief Answer:
Excessive drowsiness is a known side effect
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
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I have gone through your question in detail and I can understand what you are going through.
Excessive sedation and drowsiness is a known side-effect of remeron. Many of my patients have complained about this. In your mothers case it should be all the more avoided as she has problems with her memory as well. Sedation will disturb her residual memory as well. It increases the risk of falls and trauma as well. There are many other safer drugs for anxiety and depression like desvenlafaxine or sertraline or escitalopram which will not cause much sedation and at the same time will be effective.
If at all you want it to continue then you may reduce the dose to 7.5 mg every night and even this dose may be sufficient for her.
Hope I am able to answer your concerns.
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Excessive drowsiness is a known side effect
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Thanks for choosing health care magic for posting your query.
I have gone through your question in detail and I can understand what you are going through.
Excessive sedation and drowsiness is a known side-effect of remeron. Many of my patients have complained about this. In your mothers case it should be all the more avoided as she has problems with her memory as well. Sedation will disturb her residual memory as well. It increases the risk of falls and trauma as well. There are many other safer drugs for anxiety and depression like desvenlafaxine or sertraline or escitalopram which will not cause much sedation and at the same time will be effective.
If at all you want it to continue then you may reduce the dose to 7.5 mg every night and even this dose may be sufficient for her.
Hope I am able to answer your concerns.
If you have any further query, I would be glad to help you.
If not, you may close the discussion and if possible you may rate the answer for me, so that I get a good feedback.
In future if you wish to contact me directly, you can use the below mentioned link:
bit.ly/dr-srikanth-reddy
Wish you good health,
Kind regards
Dr. Srikanth Reddy M.D.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
Can this be decreased s doing it over period of time? She was also on Travazone which was supposed to be dc'd 4-5 weeks ago but the long term care missed this! Stopped now. Thank u
Brief Answer:
The dose can be decreased over 2-3 weeks
Detailed Answer:
Hello
Remeron dosage can be decreased over 20-3 weeks.
Hope this helps,
Kind regards
Dr. Srikanth Reddy MD
The dose can be decreased over 2-3 weeks
Detailed Answer:
Hello
Remeron dosage can be decreased over 20-3 weeks.
Hope this helps,
Kind regards
Dr. Srikanth Reddy MD
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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