(11-03-2017, 12:55 AM)fishfarmer Wrote: I, like you cutstack, have a tolerance to Benzo's, although have tapered down to about a third of what I took just six months ago. Just started a thread about the same topic, and Benadryl (Diphenhydramine) even at the 25mg dose, they make extra strength 50mg, knocks me out! This is coming from a heavy user of Benzos for 14 years. I am guessing since I have tapered so much is why I need a sleep aid? Give it a try, you got nothing to loose and can buy it at the Grocery stores for 5 or 6$ Good Luck!-FF
The funny thing is that my tolerance to the anti anxiety daytime benzos hasn't gone up. I can get away with sometimes one valium a day. Or sometime a total of 1 mg of Xanax spread through the day. My daytime issue is bad but I know taking the benzos during the day would really destroy me. At night I need huge dosages of hypnotic benzos or z drugs to sleep. I'm talkikng high doses. What started out as 15 mg of midazolam turned into a number I won't write here. Same with zolpidem and temazepam. I always alternate to keep the tolerance down but it's coming to a point where I have to think outside the box because I'm waiting on magazines and I'm panicking I'm going to not have hypnotics soon since this is the longest it's taken me to receive. I have tried diphenhydramine as well as doxylamine in the past and remember being disappointed but I'm going to try them again. At this point I'm so desperate. I am going to have to shell out a lot of money for a good psychiatrist soon. I need professional guidance on how to use rameron or seroquel as those are not drugs I'm familiar with enough to use safely without guidance.
(11-02-2017, 10:55 PM)barq- Wrote:(11-02-2017, 01:33 PM)cutstack Wrote: Is the weight gain on mirtazapine tolerable? What side effects can I expect? Thank you.
I think it varies. I good friend was on it for about a year at a high dose for it's antidepressant qualities (so 2 or 3 times what you'd have for sleep). He's the slimmest man I know and he put on about 4 or 5 lbs, but then got it under control. I think it took a bit of messing around to hit the right dose, but he used mirtazapine for over a year after struggling with the addictive side of z-drugs. But I appreciate your concern. Weight gain can be an issue, but I think people tend to post the horror stories.
Did it have an effect on libido?