Posted by Questionmark on June 3, 2004, at 0:47:58
In reply to Food interaction *not* depend on MAOI dose?, posted by don_bristol on June 2, 2004, at 3:57:14
> I read somewhere (I can't remember where) that the potentially dangerous hypertensive food interaction of MAOIs with certain foods is generally *not* dependent on the dose of the MAOI.
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> Is this true?
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> So if I take 20 mg of Parnate am I equally susceptible to a food interacation as if I took 40 or 50 mg?
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> And what about food interaction with those impressive doses I read about on message boards like 80mg or 120 mg Parnate daily?i have a really hard time believing that. While i agree with djmmm and gardenergirl, the higher one's MAOI dose, the greater the extent of thAt individual's MAO inhibition should be. And yes it depends on the amount of tyramine ingested as well, but the same amount of ingested tyramine will have a greater effect with lower levels of MAO enzyme than higher levels. i do not see how what you read would make any sense or be accurate.
Someone please correct me if i'm wrong, however.
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