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Re: Klonopin and serotonin

Posted by zeugma on January 9, 2004, at 16:08:14

In reply to Klonopin and serotonin, posted by zeugma on January 8, 2004, at 18:29:15

Starrlight and Ame,

Thanks so much for your responses. Ame: I believe I might have had a response like this to Zoloft which I tried years ago. I had a starter pack and I think I only took a SINGLE dose before getting some severe side effects that might well have been sleep-related. The effects were so bad that I was literally incapable of taking another dose. This was long before I pieced together the fact that I had some kind of narcolepsy-like condition. I did know at the time that I had a sleep disorder. However, when I went to the sleep lab to do a study, I couldn't sleep! I suppose that's fairly common. There was no other drug that I was only able to take one pill of. I tried Wellbutrin a few days later, and did get through most of the starter pack, although it caused severe light sensitivity, dizziness, and lack of coordination, and I decided to quit it because those were the days when i was driving to school and I was afraid I would have a traffic accident.

The only other SSRI I have tried was Prozac when I was 18. It made me severely nauseous, and caused me to lose a lot of weight, quick, which caused the docs to yank me off it (same thing happened with stims, minus the nausea, and with the difference that stims made me feel better overall while the Prozac didn't). That was before I developed narcolepsy when i was 23, so maybe that doesn't count.

Starrlight: Have you had this reaction only to Klonopin? or to any other meds? How long after starting Klonopin did the problems appear? They started for me the day i took my first pill. Have you described your symptoms to your doctor? When I told mine he simply told me to stop taking my afternoon dose. It's upsetting for me because klonopin is the only thing that has made a dent in my severe anxiety, social and otherwise. When I get these shocks I feel like I'm damaging my brain. Of course, I had a preexisting problem that was similar, but it's different now and I'd like to get to the bottom of this.


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