Posted by cubbybear on December 11, 2004, at 6:14:38
In reply to Re: MAOI withdrawal » Dan Perkins, posted by Dan Perkins on December 10, 2004, at 13:55:53
. I think the best way to find out which anesthesia is OK to take w/Parnate would be by posting the question directly on this message board in a seperate topic and maybe in an MAOI discussion forum (I know that Yahoo has an active one) to hear from people who have direct experience with this topic.
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> You're really on my wavelength, although I haven't experienced any loss of effectiveness in the (distant) past when I stopped the Parnate for a while and then went back on it.
More to the point, I've found that there's a lot of contradiction in warnings regarding what anaesthesia is safe with an MAOI and which isn't. I've already done a lot of research on this topic and think I know the way to go, especially which anaesthesia would NOT be safe.Just to illustrate what we're up against when we try to pose the MAOI vs. anaesthesia question to the doctors themselves, I sent an E-mail to this guy who actually performed the surgery on a Psychobabble poster who was taking an MAOI. The doctor never responded. I myself went to a local hospital to pose the question. The gastroenterologist told me that I should start with the anaesthesiologist. So I went to consult with him, and his department told me to start with the surgeon. Nobody in this rotten profession wants to take responsibility for a difficult decision and we all know why. Hence, we have to do our own homework and our own research and rely on message boards like Psychobabble
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