Posted by don_bristol on September 19, 2003, at 2:54:27
In reply to nardil question for newbies, posted by craig allen on September 18, 2003, at 21:40:15
> 've been on nardil for just over 5 weeks, sounds like i started
> around the same time as you guys. i've been extremely irritable
> the entire time and have only continued the medication because
> people have posted that the irritability will go away. i don't
> have a lot longer to wait at this point. i was up to 60mg but
> dropped my dose to 30mg 4 days ago. i'm still uncomfortably irritable.
> anyone else getting this? it's probably the norepenephrine because i
> got this way on wellbutrin when i went up to 300mg on it. strange that
> i'm still having it after 4 days at 30mg on the nardil though. so far,
> this drug sucks. please share some thoughts.
If you are a newbie like I am then you may not have come across a small but useful Yahoo group.http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maois
I don't know if you are right about norepinephrine upsetting you. It was good for me when I took only the selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor Reboxetine.
Maybe you are sensitive to norepinephrine?
I am never too surprised when mood meds produce the opposite effect to that which most people get (eg. Prozac definitey helps a minority with sex but most peole find it inhibits their sexual response). However it is unusual. And I would *guess* that your irritability on Nardil could be in such a category ... quite possible but somewhat unlikely.
Having said that a trial for 5 weeks is quite a good one and maybe it is not for you.
One other possibility (and here I am just guessing) is that you are a slow metabolizer and that your body does not break down som eof the active metobolites of Nardil as quicly as the rest of the general population. In that case perhaps a lower dose is the right dose for you? Try a reduced dose maybe and see if it works for your mood without the irritability side effect?
One of the others here will be better able to advise you what med to try next if you do give up on Nardil.
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