Posted by linkadge on June 21, 2005, at 6:34:00 [reposted on June 22, 2005, at 20:47:51 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Nardil St John Wart » Chairman_MAO, posted by ace on June 21, 2005, at 0:25:02
Yes, I would say the best antidepressant I have ever tried was SJW. When it worked after a month or so I really felt well. I felt like myself.
but is is funny, about a week after I would say I was in remission, I started to have very strange symtpoms. I thought it was some sort of panic attack but it was weird because I don't really get panic attacks, and I had felt fine for a week solid.
I had all of the syptoms of serotonin syndrome, and I can say that it was perhaps the worst thing I have ever experienced in my life. I stopped it and was so relieved to have the syptoms abate that I was almost euphoric for a week off of it. I read a few case reports of serotonin syndrome causeing an acute remission after the offending agent was removed.
I started to crash and felt extremely suicidal so went to hospital and got put on celexa.
But I would only try SJW again if it was some synthetic derivitive.
Serotonin syndrome is scarry as hell!!
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