How can Serotonin Syndrome Effect Athletic Activities?
You need only surf the internet to see the extent of the problem: long lists of people claiming to have Serotonin Syndrome, searching for advice about the bewildering effects SSRIs seem to have on their body – even though they have long stopped taking them. SSRI drugs may be altering brain and body chemistry in a longer lasting way is yet to be fully investigated. Dr Ben Green, consultant psychiatrist and senior lecturer at the University of Liverpool, who wrote a paper on the drugs’ longer-term side effects said “The effects of SSRIs reverberate through the nervous and hormone systems in the body – so much so that there may be altered brain and hormone function for weeks, even months after ceasing to take the drug,” he says. “I have seen patients suffering involuntary muscular movements, dizziness and slurred speech many months after withdrawing.
