Posted by jsarirose on August 31, 2002, at 3:17:05
In reply to About 20 to 60 mg/day, but ..., posted by Jonathan on August 30, 2002, at 20:54:46
> ... it seems to depend which country you live in!
>The official information from the pharmaceutical company that makes Parnate is that the maximum dose is 60mg. That means when they were testing, that's the dose they determined helped the maximum number of people with the fewest adverse effects.
From scouring the internet, I found that benefit can be derived from a dose up to 130mg. There have been people that took higher doses, but there is no conclusive evidence that it did them any good and was worth the risk.
Personally I took 100mg. I got the maximum benefit and could handle the side effects at that level. If I went higher I was too dizzy. But as I increased to that amount I continued to have more positive results. I found the easiest way to handle the higher dose was to split the dose into three per day. I would take 30mg when I woke, 40mg three hours later, and 30mg three hours after that. Unless I missed the first dose by a while (in which case I would feel dizzy and tired), I did just fine and the second and third doses didn't have to be 100% on time.
-Jessica
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