Posted by KaraS on December 5, 2004, at 19:58:04
In reply to Re: MAOi's vs Wellbutrin + SSRI... Vitex, posted by cybercafe on December 5, 2004, at 5:43:50
> > My impression of Parnate from reading people's experiences on this board is that the side effects aren't really that bad. Nardil is
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> parnate has side effects?? you mean like increased libido and decreased appetite?
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> i've been on it a year now, it's definately life changing for me (tried effexor, SSRIs, etc, only partial remission) ... though i do take low dose parnate (30 mg) whereas i was taking high dose everything else (like 225 or 300 mg effexor etc)
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> anyways it's quite strange.. i am (was?) bipolar, but i have been off a mood stabilizer for a while and am totally stable, taking an maoi (parnate) + a stimulant (ritalin)
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> i don't really think of the dietary restrictions -- no marmite, red wine (i wouldn't drink anyways), aged cheese (i can eat most cheese), tofu (this is the only one i am really afraid of since my roomate offers me a lot of chinese food covered in tofu but in restaurants i'm okay)
Excuse me for barging in here. I'm considering taking Parnate and I've been trying to get a handle on the foods you can and can't eat but I'm still a bit confused. I thought that most cheese is aged - that you can really only eat American or Mozzarella cheese when you're on an MAOI.Also, I thought that tofu was ok but that soy sauce was the biggest problem. That one worries me because when you go to a restaurant it's so easy for them to coat the meat with, or to include in the dish, some teriaki sauce or soy sauce. Even when I've ordered a grilled chicken sandwich, I've seen them brush on some sauce that contains soy. I don't trust that they will always tell you that - particularly if it isn't an expensive restaurant where you're waited on by good wait people. I recently went to a "Baja Fresh" and the people behind the counter barely spoke English let alone could tell you what's in the food. Maybe the answer is that you just can't go to places like that anymore. But what if you're out and are really hungry --- do you have to go to an expensive sit down restaurant every time? I'm sure I'm making more of this than I need to because lots of people are surviving on MAOIs without constantly having major problems but if someone could answer this, I'd feel a lot better.
I'm also still confused when I read packages and I see "soy protein isolate" or "soy protein concentrate". Are those things ok? If not, they're in so many things. I recently ate some Trader Joe's meat balls made out of turkey. They had one of the above soy protein ingredients in them. If i had gone to someone's house or even a restaurant that used these premade meat balls, I never would known about the soy content.Red wine, liquor and liqueurs, marmite and beer from a keg are the other big offenders, right? Those are much easier to stay away from ... although there could be wine or liqueurs in food and especially desserts. Maybe this part isn't so easy either. Why am I finding this so overwhelming?
Kara
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