Posted by DynaUnity333 on October 23, 2004, at 6:18:51
In reply to Re: STOPED and RESTARTED Nardil,great only for a time » Tepiaca, posted by King Vultan on October 21, 2004, at 22:51:09
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> > King I reached the dose of 75mg , and never felt relief.
> > Do you think I am of those people who find more relief at little doses.
> > Im thinking of decreasing the dose to 15mg
> > Does this make any sense to you?
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> > How have you felt with the parnate tod?
> > have you found relief?
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> Anything is possible, I suppose, but it seems hard to believe 15 mg of Nardil would work when 30 mg isn't. However, I've gotten boosts myself sometimes when lowering the dosage of meds or dumping them altogether, but this has generally only been temporary. Typically, it would be in the case of dropping an SSRI such as Zoloft, probably having something to do with dopamine levels rising back up to normal.
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> Parnate at 50 mg/day is working reasonably well, but I think I would be doing even better if I got more sleep. This is definitely the worst of the 12 drugs I have tried as far as insomnia. I am alternating between Halcion and OTC antihistamines, and even the Halcion is just barely adequate. I think maybe I'll try trazodone again and see if it doesn't work better than when I tried it on Nardil (it made me depressed at that time, but I think the Parnate has made some changes in receptor densities such that it may work better now).
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> ToddI don't know how anything about Nardil, but i know that the statement about lowring medication if higher doses aren't working not making any sense, is a misconception.
I absolutely hated paxil, hated hated hated. doctors kept ramping up the dose and i got worse and worse.
As i was coming off during my slow taper, i felt much relief from depression, anxiety and even physical pain to a point, when i hit the 2mgs (liquid form) per day. I make no sense of it except that maybe sometimes the more is better attitude adopted in medicine these days can be not only completely wrong, but in some cases quite problematic
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