I’ve been on mirtazapine 7months started at 15mg then went up to 30mg I was ok for first 3 months, started to experience shortness of breath and bloated constantly my breathing is like im trying to get a proper breath all the time and only sometimes I get a decent breath and then the next one again short like im suffocating this happens all day and when I eat more it gets worst, I have cut back to 15mg and its was a little bit better but still so frustrating that I cant breathe like a normal person its bad I think they call it respiratory depression,I suffer bad panic disorder were i just have panic attacks out of nowhere and feels like im dying when I get the attacks thats why I started mirtazapine it surely has stopped my attacks but now trouble breathing I cant win i wanna get off it but so afraid my attacks will come back im so lost I tried lexapro for 4 days got straight off it back on mirt as felt like it was coming back so a no no for me just wish this breathing would go away damn my disorder I hate it anyone have any suggestions that will help me
Just when i thought i would’ve never see anyone asking about this and that this problem was just my own sad problem. I’ve been asking here about this problem for like almost 2 years and seems like only a few have experience something a bit similar. This is the question i made a year and a half a go in here:
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 i started tapering( the 15 mg pill). The first 7 months i didn’t experience any breathing issue , although a few weeks before getting the breathing issue/ trouble breathing/ shortness of breath, i noticed i was breathing through my mouth and not from my nose because i felt it a bit difficult to breath through my nose? 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 sometimes a bit more bothersome/ worse. It feels sometimes as if i was breathing through a straw or like i can’t fill my lungs completely with air and i have to take multiples deep breath but still the sensation is there and ugh, i feel i’m suffocating! 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, has got me in depression thinking i’m going to die, 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!
If you are experiencing the same things then yup, is the damn medication( i’m also constantly bloated) and i seriously don’t know when all of that will go away completely till we finally breathe and feel normal again. Maybe after coming off this med and detoxing from this s***, who knows.
would like your reply on the comment i left 