Mirtazepine

[mikeeb125]

A friend of mine recently came off mirtazepine 5 days ago, could he roll safely or effectively?

The reason for stopping the mirtazepine was no effect on mental health and making work near impossible due to being like as zombie!

 

[Foerock]

I'm on mirtazapine as a sleep aid (PRN 30mg bedtime). I'm assuming your friend's dosage is MUCH higher than that because 30mgs does not zombify me at all, at least nowhere near how Seroquel does. Half-life of mirtazapine quite long; 20+ hours. I'd give it a couple more days for good measure.

 

[simstim]

Should be fine

 

[BlueBull]

I would wait a while longer to be safe. Half-life is not always a good indication. For instance, if you've been on an SSRI anti-depressant for a very long time, you would think that a week or so after quitting you should be able to roll again judging by the half-life. However, this is not the case, it can sometimes take multiple weeks or in rare cases months even for the full effects of MDMA to be felt again as evidenced by reports encountered over the years. Some anti-depressants have long-lasting effects, much longer than the half-life would indicate. You should not take chances with something like that

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I didn't see this was such an old thread that simstim was replying to before I posted. Nevertheless I'll leave this reply up in case someone else has the same question