Posted by shellie on November 9, 2000, at 16:14:23
In reply to Re: Serzone and Aching Muscles- » shellie, posted by SLS on November 9, 2000, at 6:29:39
Scott, my pdoc called this morning and agreed with your evaluation. Not exactly serotonin syndrome, but definitely a serotinon reaction-said to cut out serzone, stay on nardil for now. Then when I've gotten back to normal-- stay at 100mg of serzone. So you were exactly right.
So, if I ever run out of money, you will have to be my pdoc.
By the way, when I was reading some old posts about serzone I came upon a post where you mentioned Nathan Klein. If I wasn't in such a bad place now, I would write him (is he still alive?) to tell him he saved my life when I was 22. I saw him on PBS after getting out of shepard pratt hospital with no improvement and he talked about MAOIs. Then after I got my doctor to prescribe them, in his book he said don't give up after three weeks, sometimes the effects aren't noted until six weeks. I read that page every day for two weeks and kept with the nardil. And sure enough nardil took effect for me in the 5th week. I couldn't take tricyclics (which they kept giving me at the hospital), and no one there, or my psychiatrist outside had even mentioned MAOIs even though I was in a horrible depression. So it was luck that I caught him on PBS and his encouragement that keep me on the MAOI after four weeks.
Thanks again. I am doing really badly. I hope you are doing better than me. Let me know. Shellie
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