Posted by King Vultan on March 24, 2004, at 10:57:06
In reply to Re: prozac and lack of motivation » zana, posted by zana on March 24, 2004, at 8:16:21
> I have an app't with my doc in a few weeks and I'm going to talk to her about MAOIs. I don't know why she hasn't considered them. I've been seeing her for years and shes at a good academic medical center-- not that they know everything. But we have tried a lot of of things but never MAOIs. I would love to get off the SSRIs. I know you can't eat aged cheese. Can you eat Brie.... I mean some things are important.
> Lamictal does seem to be a mixed bag. I can't quite figure out what it's doing but since I've been on it, even at a low dose, I haven't had any taking to bed in despair episodes. That definitely goes in the plus column.
In one of my references, the tyramine content of brie without rind is listed at 0.2 mg per serving, which is nothing. This is an amount similar to what's in sour cream and cheese whiz, both of which are considered safe. The cheeses to avoid are the heavily aged ones, such as real cheddar cheese. There are cheeses with higher tyramine contents, such as some of the blue cheeses, but cheddar seems to be the most common cheese with problematic tyramine levels.Todd
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