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Cramping in leg? Be careful... » baba-loo

Posted by Chris O on March 18, 2005, at 17:40:39

In reply to trytophan side effects, posted by baba-loo on March 18, 2005, at 15:24:37

I don't want to alarm you, but leg cramps, if I recall correctly, are one of the symptoms of EMS, the syndrome that people got from contaminated tryptophan in the late 1980s. I have...when I took tryptophan, I experienced the same thing, the muscle cramping, and I immediately stopped. I'm a bit of a scardy cat with supplements though. I guess I would check all of this out with your doc to make sure it's okay.

Good luck,
Chris

> I have been taking 5htp for about a year and the depression/anxiety has been creeping back in. My Dr prescribed tytophan, suggesting it may be more helpful at this point. I started two days ago with one dose of 500mg. Felt great yesterday-best I've felt in a long time. Last night I upped the dose to not quite 1000mg and woke up today, a wreck! anxious, jittery, muscles in my leg cramping, hyper-alert, and very aggitated. I am so wanting to keep trying the tryptophan but am afraid of serotonin syndrome. i am not on any other antidepressants ( have never been able to tolerate the side-effects), but am still taking a low dose of 5htp (100Mg). I'm wondering if anyone else has had these symptoms when first starting tryptophan. I'm hoping I can just go back to the one pill and let my body more gradually adjust, but the way I feel today is worse than the depression. I'm so frustrated at how sensitive I am to taking things that are meant to help. Perhaps I should completely stop the 5htp because the two are interacting and giving me too a big a serotonin boost too quickly. Any thoughts from fellow-experimenters? Thanks, Baba-loo


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