Ever increasing venlafaxine, plus mirtazapine

[Dying_Swan]

Just updating after another review. Ven down to 150mg, quetiapine up to 300mg. Still on mirtazapine for now but will switch to trazodone asap. Currently feeling quite wired but I know this happens when I increase quetiapine, so hopefully it'll calm down soon, otherwise I may be forced to go running in my pyjamas in the middle of the night

[Maca44]

Is running in Pyjamas listed as a side effect 😉

[Dying_Swan]

Is running in Pyjamas listed as a side effect 

Running at all would be an amazing side effect for me. Thankfully, for my neighbours, I managed to stay in the house.

[Maca44]

I know that some people on Zopliclone can go night driving and wake up not knowing they had done so, odd isn't it.

[Dying_Swan]

Oh wow, that's quite scary. I think quetiapine can also make you sleep walk etc, but I've not yet noticed anything. Are you still on the zopiclone?

[Maca44]

Afraid so still use it as a sedative if things get out of hand so im under no illusion that im totally addicted to it. Doc wants mood/anxiety under control before zop reduction.

[Dying_Swan]

That's fair enough. Probably a good idea to have a decent period of stability before making any more changes.

[Sunnysideup]

How are you doing, DS?

[Dying_Swan]

Hi Sunny. I'm not too bad thanks. I'm on 150 ven now and am feeling some withdrawal, though not too bad. I think I'm going to go back to 75mg twice a day rather than 150 XR just in the morning. Switching Mirtazapine to trazodone soon so hoping that won't be too bad. How are things with you?

[Sunnysideup]

Hi Sunny. I'm not too bad thanks. I'm on 150 ven now and am feeling some withdrawal, though not too bad. I think I'm going to go back to 75mg twice a day rather than 150 XR just in the morning. Switching Mirtazapine to trazodone soon so hoping that won't be too bad. How are things with you?

Good to hear things are relatively okay.
I'm also not too bad. Had a great run of 8 anxiety free days, then something silly wound me up and I crashed yesterday, was really anxious all day. Spilled over into today, but is resolving this evening. Ugh. 8 weeks in tomorrow and still levelling out, really.