Posted by hockeygirlcanada on November 6, 2003, at 19:40:06
The long and short of my story is chronic Generalized anxiety for almost 7 years, been on many ad's, nothing has worked. Only temporary relief I feel is after taking my clonazepam aka Klonopin.
I finally was given an maoi, Parnate, started out at 20mg, increased to 30 mg, and couldn't take the stimulating effect, had to cut down to twenty, then to 10mg. I will give parnate for helping my mild depression, which is secondary to my GAD, but it gives me the adrenaline rush, and then I crash. Drinking coffee to try to stay awake, which isn't a great idea for my anxiety, and then at night time, even on 10 mg's I am awake. I don't mind the insomnia, but when I do sleep I don't want to wake up, because I wake up with a huge headache, brain fog, and it takes about an hour, with a cup of coffee and my parnate to come out of it.
Went to doc today, could add a sleeping aid, maybe I wouldn't be so tired during the day, or washout and try nardil.
So here are my questions, as this decision is mine according to my doc:
1- Is nardil extremely sedating throughout the day? Would I still possibly be needing to try and use something to stimulate me.
2- I have read that even though the sleep on nardil may be short lived, you feel fine waking up, as if you had an 8 hour night.
3- I realize that the headache could go away after about 4 months, as it takes about that long for the s/e. But would the stimulating effect go away, or is that the nature of the drug?
4- Weight gain, don't care! Give me 50 if it works, I will cross that bridge when it comes.
5- Just an overall general "what I should/could expect with Nardil, if I decide to go that route..
I can live on parnate, but it gives me a general ill feeling.
It seems that some people do ok on parnate/nardil and if they try the other it works wonders.
Sorry for being long winded, but all your info would be greatly appreciated!
By the way ace, I know your answer!! But you can certainly reinforce it for me, and if you can give me some info on the clinical trials you spoke about on an earlier post, that would be great!!
Thanks
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