Posted by Grouch on August 5, 2001, at 21:43:35
In reply to Re: MAOIs and sleep problems » Grouch, posted by shelliR on August 4, 2001, at 22:38:01
> Hi Grouch.
> When I took nardil, I also had severe sleep problems. I started to take atarax (hydroxyzine) 150mgHi Shelli. Am not familiar with atarax... is that an antihistamine?
>I had no trouble falling asleep but I wake up every three hours: Really wake up and it would take more benzos to finally fall asleep.
Similar experience for me... no trouble falling asleep, but would wake up after a couple of hours and be awake or semi-awake for the rest of the night, sometimes managing to get a couple of hours in towards late morning. The weird thing for me during the "wake" time is that I still felt dead tired but couldn't fall asleep. My sleep schedule also became skewed such that I was going to bed as late as 3 AM and getting up as late as 3 PM!
>You might try augmenting the MAOI and trying a smaller dose.
That's a possibility.
> On Monday I am going to start parnate and am hoping not to have the same sleep problems as on the higher dose of nardil. Your post is not encouraging :-).
Heh. Actually it's ironic because I've been considering retrying Nardil, so your post isn't so encouraging to me either! :) (First time I tried Nardil it had no effect, but I didn't push the dose very high.)
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