Re: What is 'SSRI activation syndrome?'

Posted by RiFi on March 16, 2012, at 6:05:13

In reply to What is 'SSRI activation syndrome?', posted by LostBoyinNCReturns on March 13, 2012, at 23:41:48

Hi Eric,
The symptoms you've described sound like Serotonin Syndrome (I experienced it earlier this week and it ain't fun!) It occurs when too much serotonin is released into and/or remains in the brain. It typically occurs when the dosage of an SSRI or SNRI is increased, or when it's combined with another drug (lithium in my case, but it can happen with many other psych meds, pain killers, cough medicine, supplements, herbs etc)
If you look it up at 'pubmed health' you'll see that the symptoms are very close to what you described:
Agitation or restlessness
Anxiety
Diarrhea
Fast heart beat
Increased body temperature (fever, sweating)
Loss of coordination
Nausea
Overactive reflexes
Rapid changes in blood pressure
Vomiting
Hypomania
Muscle spasms (including general stiffening and soreness of muscles - flu-like, viral symptoms)

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