Posted by cubbybear on March 27, 2004, at 5:31:11
In reply to Re: Need Cheese Info for MAOIs » pretty_paints, posted by Sad Panda on March 26, 2004, at 8:52:56
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> MAOI's are potent & may have the least side effects, but combined with certain foods like aged cheese they potentially become lethal by causing a 'hypertensive crisis', if mixed with the wrong medicines they can cause lethal Serotonin Syndrome. For this reason most doctors won't even prescribe them & they have become last choice.
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> Cheers,
> Panda.I beg to differ. . .the reasons doctors won't prescribe MAOIs is not that they're so dangerous, it's a) the POTENTIAL dangers have been overstressed and exaggerated, and b) the big drug companies who are making the SSRIs, Effexor, and all the other "latest and greatest" ADs have done everything they can to convince the doctors to push only their products and relegate the ones that don't make any money for them into the trashcan.
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