Posted by Sunnely on March 1, 2001, at 17:47:44
In reply to nardil and deadly docs, posted by kate9999 on February 28, 2001, at 0:27:36
Hi smdd,
Actually a few years ago, in a NY Hospital ER, a deadly interaction occurred between a MAOI and Demerol (I think). The woman died. The ER doctor did not know then that about this deadly drug-drug interaction. The father of the patient sued the hospital and the doctor. I think the father lost the case due to his daughter's complicated medical and significant drug abuse. I believe her name is Libby. May be those from NY will remember this case.
> There's actually a Law and Order episode about a doctor that kills a patient on Nardil by injecting her accidentally with, I think, an antihistamine or a cough supressant.
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> In real life, it'd have been a stone cold sober doctor and nobody would have caught it.
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I think it's wise to avoid the combination of a MAOI with any of the triptans (for migraine headaches). Danger of serotonin syndrome.
> Wake up call for me - I go for migraines to a neurologist at a fairly prestigious hospital in Boston. We talk about how Nardil might be affecting my migraines at length, and the risks of stroke from migraine and from Nardil. He gives me 2 scripts. As an afterthought, as I'm leaving holding the scripts I say - these are both okay with Nardil, right? He says "oh, let me check." Turns out one is contraindicated in the PDR.
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> Like you, now I run every med I take by the pharmacist. They actually seem to carefully check like responsible professionals.
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> Other thing I do is, when I fill out the form saying what meds I'm on I put exclamation marks and underline Nardil to draw attention to it.
> Maybe it's tilting at windmills, but I figure it can't hurt.
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> > I agree with the statement that Nardil will not kill me, a medical professional will. I have had too many arguments with doctors on what I can take and what I cannot. After I leave the doctor, I go to my pharmacist and he just shakes his head and refuses to fill my rx. I know I cannot take many things they give me, but I feel by giving the rx to the pharmacist, it might help 'my case' someday. Witnesses so to speak.
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> > Regarding a drug to augment Nardil. Several years ago, the psych that first gave me Nardil, suggested adding 10mg of desipramine. I refused out of fear, but he said he did this quite often. You might want to have your friend check with his psych about this, of course doing careful research to see if has ever really been done and documented.
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