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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: Restorer on April 09, 2012, 04:19:42 PM
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Has anyone been on Remeron (the generic is mirtazapine)? I overheard a doctor recommending it to another patient for increasing appetite. I wonder if it might be worth bringing up with my neph for doing the same.
If you've been on it, has it helped? Did you have any side effects?
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Remeron is a tetracyclic antidepressant. One of it's common side effects is to increase appetite. They were considering putting my SO on it as a mood stabilizer. It is used off label to treat anorexia and low appetite and underweightness. The transplant psychiatrist has considered it for my SO, so I assume it would be safe for someone on dialysis to use.
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I was on Remeron for depression. My doc told me to take it at bedtime because it might make me sleepy (it did). It also must have increased my appetite because I would get up in the middle of the night and eat but wouldn't remember doing it the next morning. Figured it out when I blamed my son fro leaving the kitchen in a mess a few times and he kept saying it wasn't him then one night he and a couple of friends came home at 2:00 AM and found me eating scrambled eggs! :oops;
The Remeron also raised my Triglycerides, so if that's a problem for you you might want to look for another option.
MJ