5 htp side effects, by duration, gender and age (a phase IV clinical study of FDA data)

female:

1. Arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat)
2. Drug ineffective
3. Abdominal pain
4. Essential tremor
5. Fatigue (feeling of tiredness)
6. Feeling abnormal
7. Injection site pruritus (severe itching at injection site)
8. Abdominal pain upper
9. Agitation (state of anxiety or nervous excitement)
10. Alopecia (absence of hair from areas of the body)

male:

1. Abdominal distension
2. Dyspepsia (indigestion)
3. Gastrointestinal disorder (functional problems of gastrointestinal tract)
4. Abnormal behaviour
5. Activities of daily living impaired
6. Back pain
7. Drug ineffective
8. Meningitis (inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, known collectively as the meninges)
9. Muscle spasms (muscle contraction)
10. Psoriasis (immune-mediated disease that affects the skin)

0-1:

n/a

2-9:

n/a

10-19:

1. Gastrointestinal disorder (functional problems of gastrointestinal tract)

20-29:

1. Abdominal pain
2. Balance disorder
3. Hallucination (an experience involving the perception of something not present)

30-39:

1. Abdominal pain upper
2. Amnesia (deficit in memory caused by brain damage, disease, or psychological trauma)
3. Gastrooesophageal reflux disease (stomach contents (food or liquid) leak backwards from the stomach into the oesophagus)
4. Psoriasis (immune-mediated disease that affects the skin)

40-49:

1. Essential tremor
2. Back pain
3. Crohn's disease (a condition that causes inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract)

50-59:

1. Anaemia (lack of blood)
2. Contusion (a type of hematoma of tissue in which capillaries)
3. Headache (pain in head)
4. Muscle spasms (muscle contraction)

60+:

1. Abdominal distension
2. Drug ineffective
3. Dyspepsia (indigestion)
4. Arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat)
5. Abnormal behaviour
6. Amnesia (deficit in memory caused by brain damage, disease, or psychological trauma)
7. Arthralgia (joint pain)
8. Bone density increased
9. Cardiac disorder
10. Crying

< 1 month:

1. Back pain
2. Hallucination (an experience involving the perception of something not present)

1 - 6 months:

n/a

6 - 12 months:

1. Blood pressure increased

1 - 2 years:

1. Delirium (wild excitement)

2 - 5 years:

n/a

5 - 10 years:

n/a

10+ years:

1. Fatigue (feeling of tiredness)

not specified:

1. Amnesia (deficit in memory caused by brain damage, disease, or psychological trauma)
2. Essential tremor
3. Feeling abnormal
4. Gastrointestinal disorder (functional problems of gastrointestinal tract)
5. Injection site pruritus (severe itching at injection site)
6. Abdominal pain upper
7. Abnormal behaviour
8. Activities of daily living impaired
9. Agitation (state of anxiety or nervous excitement)
10. Alopecia (absence of hair from areas of the body)