Posted by joema on June 25, 2001, at 14:35:30
I'm a 43-yr old male with a 4mm prolactin-secreting benign pituitary tumor called a prolactinoma. I take 0.5mg/week of a dopamine agonist med called Dostinex (Cabergoline), which controls my prolactin level and prevents the tumor from growing.
I also have mild depression/anxiety, for which I'm trying various ADs. When I took 150mg of serzone, within 2 hrs I had hypomania, diaphoresis, shivering, 102 temp, nausea, blurred vision, marked flu-like symptoms. It gradually abated over 24 hr.
Are there known drug interactions between dopamine agonists and Serzone? Did I have serotonin syndrome, or just individual sensitivity to a (maybe too high) starting dose?
Can I start at a much lower dose of serzone (say 20 mg), and just very slowly increase? Are there risks to doing this given the above?
-- joema
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