Posted by Rick on July 18, 2000, at 22:10:07
In reply to Re: Blood Sugar/ World Wide ADRAFINIL -RICK, posted by tina on July 18, 2000, at 17:41:01
Tina -
I just noticed my reply to you never showed up. Oh well, let's try again....
Generally speaking, I do know that MAOI's can affect blood sugar, but I don't know whether that applies to moclobemide.
I would think that if the moclobemide were going to affect your glucose, that effect would have shown up by now, unless perhaps you've increasd your dosage within the last three weeks. But it would be prudent to monitor regularly anyways, and keep in touch with your doctor -- especially if you feel new or intensified hypolycemia symptoms.
That said, it is well known that MAOI's can affect blood glucose in many people. It's been awhile, but I've read a number of articles that talked about this. (You can probably find some of them just by entering something like "MAOI and glucose" into a search engine or Medline.) I recall that some articles said MAOI's can lower sugar, while others said they can have an unpredictable effect. (Somewhat more said "lowers" than "unpredictable", I think.) Importantly, I don't know if they were looking at reversible MAOI's like moclobemide, however. That could be a different story than Nardil or Parnate.
It just so happens the first psychotropic I ever took was Nardil. My pdoc told me to expect it to lower my glucose. As it turns out, it seemed to have minimal, if any, effect on it. (He also predicted lower blood pressure, and THAT sure turned out to be true! When the dose got high enough, it turned me from hypertensive to hypotensive alsmost overnight!) Selegiline (irreversible MAO-B inhibitor) had no effect on my glucose, but I was taking a pretty low dose.
Good Luck,
Rick> Hi Rick: I've just been diagnosed with hypoglycemia and I've never had a blood sugar problem before. I am taking moclobemide. Do you know if it causes the same thing? I took celexa for a month before startiing the Manerix and have been on the Manerix for 6 weeks now. Thanks in advance for any and all input.
> Be well
> Tina
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