Posted by ggg on July 11, 2002, at 3:42:02
I'm gonna contact my doctor tomorrow about this, but would also like to get some alternative feedback in the meantime.
For the last year and a half I've experienced shortness of breath. Choking, feeling breathless, and feeling like I'm not getting enough air are a few of my symptoms. I notice that aerobic exercise at least 3 times a week causes much of those symptoms to subside, but they can readily come back if I'm not consistent with working out, and even during the periods of time when I feel my breathing is generally okay, I still occasionally feel some shortness of breath, at times.
For the first time, I read the prescription pamphlet provided by my healthcare provider (not the Organon pamphlet) and it said that shortness of breath is a less common side effect that should be reported to your doctor immediately, so right then, I'm beginning to panic because its been almost a year and a half since I first experienced that symptom!
Well, I've been on Remeron for 2 years now. I started in July of 2000 at 30 mg a day and increased to 45 mg a day in August of 2001 and that's dose I'm currently taking. I started experiencing these symptoms in February of 2001, so I don't know for sure if they are a direct result of Remeron.
Any comments...what could this be and is it related to Remeron? I'm not really overweight by the way, so this is quite unusually, especially since I've been heavier at times long before I ever used Remeron and never experienced this then, but I was also much younger too back then.
Remeron has been helping me greatly, but I really hate the feeling of not getting enough air; it doesn't allow me to think as clearly and it causes my head to feel weird (lack of air feeling).
ggg
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