Posted by SLS on September 20, 2012, at 4:38:29
In reply to Re: Two questions about Serotonin syndrome., posted by jono_in_adelaide on September 20, 2012, at 1:29:28
> Scott, what precipitated your seretonin syndrome?
Out of desperation, I performed an experiment. I was taking Parnate at the time. I decided to take a small dose of a SRI to see if I really would get serotonin syndrome. I decided to use Effexor because it had the shortest half life of the things I had laying around. Effexor XR didn't exist at the time, so I bit off and swallowed a very small piece of an Effexor IR 75 mg tablet. It took about 15 minutes before I became incoherent and pinned to my bed with muscle rigidity. I think it took about 45 minutes for the symptoms to abate. I was lucky. I have to believe that if someone were to react the same way I did, but taking a full dose instead, they would not be capable of thinking clearly enough nor be able to move their muscles in order to bring themselves to a hospital. If, in this state, hyperpyrexia were to ensue, death or brain damage are likely outcomes.
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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