Positive experience

Just wanted to share my personal experience with remeron, since there’s so much negativity on this sub. This medication really helped me more than any other anti anxiety/anti depressant, and I took them all. I was on 15mg for about 2 years for severe anxiety and panic attacks. I did gain quite a bit of weight, i was constantly hungry and even when I counted calories and increased activity, the weight did not come off. Thats what ultimately made me want to get off the med, once my mental health was stable. I tried decreasing by half 15mg to 7.5mg at my drs recommendation. This was too fast and I did have withdrawal effects of dizziness, migraines, nausea, and increase in POTS symptoms. I went back up and decreased by 25% instead. For one week I’d do 15mg one night, then a night of 3/4pill, alternating for a week. The next week I did every day 3/4 of a 15mg. I continued that pattern until I got to 3.25 daily then jumped off. I took 1mg melatonin on nights I had trouble sleeping. I did have some of those withdrawal feelings first thing in the morning when I first made a drop, but it always leveled out within the week. So it took me about 7 weeks to get off and I’m doing just fine. I hope this is encouraging to someone.