serotonin syndrome
hello all. I know this isn’t a place to get medical advice but I was still just curious what everyone thinks about my current situation. I am currently sitting in the ER waiting to get seen for this
so last night as per instruction from the doctor, I upped my dose of sertraline from 25mg to 50 and thought I was fine. around 11 last night I was trying to fall asleep but was dealing with sudden bad neck/collar pain and couldn’t get comfortable. I eventually fell asleep around 1 something for about an hour before I woke up feeling completely off and not myself, like something was very wrong. I chalked it up to another panic attack as i’ve been dealing with those lately. this was not that I quickly realized.
I tried really hard to push through the awful buzzing, confused and restless feeling all night and decided to go to the ER after I literally could not sleep all night. I’m dealing with shakiness, panic attacks, muscle tightness, and can’t sleep but as far as i’ve read from other people’s experiences with SS, I have it extremely mild if I even do have it. I was just wondering what people think. Is this just my body not liking sertraline? is this just bad side effects from upping the dosage? It’s only been about 9 hours since I took the pill and I’m just worried this is gonna get worse and I could possibly die from it and doctors here not taking it serious enough before it gets worse
I’m not sure if this makes a difference but a week before starting sertraline, I quit nicotine cold turkey and have been dealing with awful symptoms of that too. I’m not sure if that affects starting an SSRI? any input would mean a lot as i’m terrified of going through what many others have described as hell