Posted by King Vultan on October 17, 2004, at 0:57:27
In reply to Re: Nardil, could it have been a dose dependant prob.?, posted by jonh kimble on October 16, 2004, at 21:09:41
> Thanks. I hope to give it a shot starting Monday and Im gonna ask to go up to 90 mgs right away. Tom
The recommendation generally is to start at a lower dose and work your way up. If you were to start at 90 mg/day, you would have a high likelihood of getting blasted with severe insomnia. My pdoc uses the starting dosage that is in the PDR, which is 3 x 15 mg/day. This is then "increased to at least 60 mg per day at a fairly rapid pace consistent with patient tolerance. It may be necessary to increase dosage up to 90 mg/day to obtain sufficient MAO inhibition." I think I went to 75 mg/day after maybe three weeks at 60. I went to 90 mg/day after about the same amount of time on 75. If I had to do it over again, I think I would have stayed at 75 mg/day for a longer period of time, as this was the lowest dosage that gave me significant therapeutic effects.
Todd
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