Posted by Jon21 on September 26, 2003, at 15:35:31
In reply to Re: You've convinced me » NikkiT2, posted by JonW on September 26, 2003, at 13:03:02
Hi Nikki,
Your desicion not to take moclobemide is probably the best if you think you're going to have a hard time keeping to a low tyramine diet. I see my advice has been rated as conservative by another poster.
The advice I gave *was* deliberately on the conservative side. I too have combined moclobemide with large amounts 'forbidden foods', but I don't think it's good advice to post this as a general statement as it may mislead people into thinking they can ignore the restrictions altogether, which is definately dangerous. I don't want to be responsible for causing a serious reaction.Moclobemide didn't work for me, but I was taking it primarily for social anxiety; you don't mention your reason for taking it. One thing that worried me is that my depression began to resurface quite bad a few months into moclobemide therapy - something that has never happened while taking any other AD, and like you I've tried almost the whole lot besides the older MAOI's.
The MAOI's are likely to cause hypotension (low blood pressure) in daily use (except of course in the rare event of a hypertensive crisis), although this is usually occurs with the older MAOI's, not moclobemide. Your blood pressure is unlikely to be a problem if you did take moclobemide.
Jon
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