Posted by Richdawn on June 25, 2005, at 8:02:05
In reply to Re: Nardil St John Wart » ace, posted by linkadge on June 21, 2005, at 6:34:00
Hi, Linkage
Could you tell me what brand and dosage of SJW you were on when the serotonin syndrome incident happened?
Since my son, age 22, seems mildly depressed, I told him he could try SJW to see if it would help. He had previously tried Celexa and Zoloft and didn't like the side effects. Now after reading your experiences, I am a little worried that I advised him to try the SJW.He also takes Adderall.
Thanks for any info you can give.
Richdawn
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I started to crash and felt extremely suicidal so went to hospital and got put on celexa.
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> But I would only try SJW again if it was some synthetic derivitive.
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> Serotonin syndrome is scarry as hell!!
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