Posted by ed_uk on November 8, 2004, at 13:11:54
In reply to Re: The Forbidden Combination, posted by ed_uk on November 8, 2004, at 12:48:57
Hello...
It looks like Scott had a bad experience combining an MAOI with venlafaxine, does anyone else have any experiences...SLS said......'All I can say is that I know of no way to confidently predict which people will experience a life-threatening reaction to such a combination and which will not. Once upon a time, in an act of desperation, I decided to take a nibble off a small piece of venlafaxine (Effexor) to see how it would react with the Parnate I was taking. Within ten or fifteen minutes, I experienced vertigo and I had to lay down. I couldn't get myself to sit up in bed. I became incoherent and hardly knew where I was. I made no sense at all when speaking to my parents. I told them not to worry about me, that I understood what I did wrong, and that I simply had to reboot the system. No problem.
I can't emphasize enough what a tiny amount of Effexor I bit off. Because of its short half-life, I chose Effexor purposely to test for the potential of developing serotonin syndrome when combining a serotonin reuptake inhibitor with an MAOI. If something went wrong, it should dissipate relatively quickly. It did. So did my notions of trying it ever again.'
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