Help! I was prescribed Mirtazapine for depression and took it for 2 mos. i then started having pretty rough anxiety upon awakening, so I started tapered down to 15 mg from 30 mg. I then started to feel suicidal and the anxiety became unbearable. I called the weekend dr. on call, and he said to just quit taking it...so I did. That was 11 days ago and I am still having lots of chest pain/ anxiety 24/7, crying spells, and wanting to die to get out of this emotional pain. I was not anywhere near this sick before going on Mirtazapine. I take xanax, little as possible, to cope with these w/drawls but it does little to help. The only thing I have that helps is Tramadol that i take for hip pain...it does away with most of the symptoms, but I don t want to get addicted to that also. The most of it I take a day is one 50mg tablet. Could I keep taking that much until the Mirt. withdrawals go away? I DO NOT want to be on another antidepressant EVER. All of the SSRI ones have had bad side affects on me also, but none like these. Please help me, thank you, Deann