u/HeiRhoMoon

I started taking mirtazapine 7.5 mg three nights ago for major depressive disorder. I felt the effects immediately. Positives are that I sleep extremely well and I don’t have the obtrusive/repetitive thoughts. The bad is that I sleep too long, almost 12 hours, and I wake up feeling drugged. My speech is slower, head is fuzzy, vision is blurry, limbs are heavy. I told my psychiatric nurse practitioner about these side effects and she advised that these side effects are normal and that I could go up to 15 mg, that the higher dose had less sedative effects. I also have multiple sclerosis so who knows how that or all the other things I take are messing with it.
I would just like to know if anyone else had a similar experience and if they benefited from increasing their dose of mirtazapine from 7.5mg to 15mg.
I know every medication works differently based on the individual but I would really appreciate any feedback. I feel so alone dealing with this.