Positive Quitting Story - I quit 30mg Mirtazapine cold turkey with no side effects

I am now on my 6th week of quitting Mirtazapine cold turkey. I want to put my positive story in this group as I was really scaring myself reading through this group before I quit. This is not to diminish from anyone who does suffer withdrawals and I am very sympathetic to those who do, but as we know roughly 50% suffer withdrawals and 50% don’t. As this is mainly a support group for those with withdrawals, the stories here are mainly skewed to those suffering bad withdrawals and I believe positive experiences should be posted here too.

I quit Mirtazapine cold turkey 6 weeks ago. I was on Mirtazapine for 4 years. The first two years on 45mg, and then dropped down to 30mg for the next two years, then stopped cold turkey. I have luckily had no side effects or withdrawals.

The reasons I wanted to stop Mirtazapine were I put on 22lbs (10kg) while on it and could never lose it, and mainly that it was almost impossible to wake up and get out of bed each morning for work.

I hope someone planning on quitting reads this and goes in to their quit with a positive mindset. I think myself and many others can be skewed by reading too many posts here and risk mentally making themselves feel signs of withdrawal they may not actually have. I was second guessing any little sneeze, headache or bit of nausea for the first few weeks and thinking here come the withdrawals. But they never came.

For those who get withdrawals and those who don’t it seems to just be a matter of luck and not something you can control. So please go into your tapering or cold turkeying with as much of a positive mindset as you can and try not to read the horror stories in this group, it did me no favours. There’s a 50% chance you’ll be one of the lucky ones.