Mirtazapine withdrawal is one of the nastiest kinds. Even if you were on them for a couple of months. Standard tapering schedule for mirtazapine is reducing the dose 10 percent every three to six weeks, depending on how you feel. Some people have to go 5 percent or less. I made a mistake of reducing the meds 30 percent and have been ill for two weeks.
Awaiting biopsy results from endoscopy. It will be 2 weeks today since my endoscopy. My doctor was on vacation for the last week and just came back into the office on friday. The scheduler called to make an appointment for a consultation visit with the doctor. I asked to speak with the nurse to find out my results and I was told that she'd call me by the end of the day.
If a temporal artery biopsy shows no signs of inflammation but your symptoms strongly suggest giant cell arteritis, you and your doctor will discuss the risks and benefits of treatment and of no treatment. You and your doctor will decide whether or not you will proceed with treatment.f you are taking high-dose corticosteroids, the biopsy result may not be accurate. In this case, any biopsy testing must be performed as soon as possible, preferably within 2 to 5 days. Biopsies done more than about a week after the start of high-dose corticosteroids may be falsely normal (false-negative).