Posted by sk85 on January 15, 2012, at 15:25:57
In reply to Re: Tardive (drug induced) dystonia, posted by Phillipa on January 15, 2012, at 10:12:59
> Why now is there such negative side effects from SSRI's? Half the people I know take them and don't have problems. Is it a small majority of people who do experience these severe problems? Phillipa
I'm not entirely sure why I developed dystonia from an SSRI, I might have had a predisposition (already lowered dopamine). However there are numerous case reports of other people who ended up with a movement disorder just like myself after taking an SSRI. SSRIs supposedly lower dopamine in brain areas that control movement, and this lowering messes something up, so that the receptors become permanently oversensitive to dopamine and also the wiring of those particular neurons change, and this eventually results in a movement disorder.
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