Can mirtazapine cause shortness of breath/ trouble breathing?
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Plz, anyone whos got experience with it , comment your story/ what you felt and how long it lasted, but only the ones who felt this side effect. Plz be specific !
Now a little background of my story ⤵
I never got any trouble or problem with my breathing. Yes, it was a bit short but it never gave me problems. I started tapering mirtazapine 1 year and a month ago, because i read so many bad things about antidepressants that i didn't want that in my system, so a started tapering. The first 7 months i didn't experience any breathing issue , although a few weeks before getting the breathing issue i noticed i was breathing from my mouth than my nose because i felt it a bit difficult? But it was mild and then boom! One day it started really bad and now is been 6 months almost 7 with it. It sometimes goes away or so i think, but it comes back and sometime a bit more bothersome. I have gotten check ups like: The air in my blood wish was perfect, an x ray of my lungs and multiple times check with a stethoscope to make sure my lungs sounded well and everything came out really good/ perfect, However i still feel and suffer from this and is very bothersome to a point it drives me mad. And on top i have another year left to taper, how am i going to keep handling this when is sooo annoying? Anyone can relate? plz let me know!
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markd6694 Yaralee98362
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I have suffered symptoms like this several times last week , but it seems to pass again its like your throat is tightening up , i think its just anxiety for me
Yaralee98362 markd6694
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at least yours went away, i wish with all my heart that mine goes 2 😢 it had made me soo depressed because i have health anxiety/ocd and i keep thinking im gonna die. Gosh what a nightmare.
emma79531 Yaralee98362
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i have health anxiety also and ive only been on these tabs a few days i feel awful!... like im short of breath, my head feels drowsy and not with it, i also feel like im guna die which caused my anxiety to go through the roof:(, i hope it passes soon
james51054 Yaralee98362
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I I also had a lot of problems breathing while on the remeron. I think that you'll feel better once the drug is completely out of your system and your body is no longer physiologically addicted.
Yaralee98362 james51054
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Really?, was it on it or while tapering? and what exactly did you felt? i mean, explain the symptoms , for example: couldn't breathe enough air along with cough and tightness etc?
sarah24378 Yaralee98362
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i am tapering off and my breathing can feel laboured. it feels like i have a low level cold all the time cos of the histamine intolerance whilst tapering.
what dose are you on ?
james51054 Yaralee98362
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it was both while I was on it and tapering. I felt like I just could not catch my breath.I would have to take a very long deep breath and hold it so I could get enough oxygen in my lungs. scary feeling of suffocation. it's been a month now since I've been off the remeron and feel so much better because my nose doesn't get congestion and I can take long deep breaths
sarah24378 james51054
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what dose did you jump off at and did you get withdrawals ?
Yaralee98362 sarah24378
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oh wow 😕 and im at 2.3mg right now and yed I've heard about the histamine but is so complicated
james51054 sarah24378
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I was at 30 mg per day. Then the doctor put me on 45 mg per day and I took that for four days and just decided to get off it all together. it was becoming too much. since I was only on the medication 3 months I decided to go cold turkey and really didn't have any withdrawals except for the labored breathing
Yaralee98362 james51054
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Breathing becomes sometimes a freaking task 😦 i'm so sad and mad, why did i had to end up in this drug? all i pray to god is to help me, because this is really a challenge.
I get a tingling sensation that makes me cough, then i feel i cant breathe enough air, had to take deep breaths and is not that enough, my nose takes less air in so i breath through my mouth sometimes , feel suffocated , bloated.. ugh damn this!
grace83710 Yaralee98362
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hi, do you all feel better now? I an wondering if this difficulty in breathing will go away after sometime?
Yaralee98362 grace83710
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you have it to?!?! omg , not to sound weird but thank god im not alone! for me, is been 1 years feeling like this, is horrible, i want to cream it feels suffocating! i never had any of this before starting this med and when i started tapering ( which im still am) after some 4 month of taper, it started and now ive been with it for 1 years and some days. i still have a long way to gotta finish this taper so im hoping once im out of this sh** ill be ok again. Tell me your experience with the breathing issue 😃
greg2273 james51054
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did you come off because it never worked for you or was the problem the breathing?
Yaralee98362 greg2273
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i decided to taper ( which im still am ) because of how bad antidepressants are for people( i know some must take them no matter what) but not for us who i think that some therapy and other stuffs would've help more than just throwing pills at us like thats the solution to everything, so i decided to start tepring, this 2 of november will be 2 years of tapering and i still have a long way to go 😦