Posted by Jumpy on January 23, 2003, at 14:25:59
In reply to Re: Can anything besides benzos- ATTN: JUMPY, posted by ace on January 22, 2003, at 22:37:48
Libby Zion was a patient taking nardil and was given demerol once at a New York Hospital Emergency room. She eventually died (Pulmonary hemorrhage from hypertension??). She also took cocaine, so it is unclear whether she died from an interaction of nardil with demerol or cocaine.
Her parents sued the physicians and won. What came out of the case was that NY doctors in training had the numbers of hours they could work reduced. The other thing that occurred after the Libby Zion case was that most NYC doctors became reluctant to prescribe MAOIs. Very unforunate for the thousands of patients that now suffer and may have a good response to an MAOI (especially since many believe it was Libby's cocaine habit which cause the interaction and eventual death!)
I have been on and off nardil for 6 years at 60mgs/day. I stop because of the 30lbs weight gain, memory difficulties, insomnia and sexual dysfunction .... then after 2 or 3 med trial failures, I crawl back to nardil.
Jumpy
PS You can email me at doctorfeldman1@aol.com
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