Posted by BJ Turner on July 6, 2005, at 2:15:18
In reply to Re: Marplan, posted by Declan on July 3, 2005, at 14:44:23
> Hi BJ
> Tell us more about the decongestant accident, what you took with the Marplan, how much and so on.
> DeclanDeclan, It was a silly accident. I was caught out in one of our famous NM windstorms which are almost as good as Mo tornados and came down with a raging strep infection. Running a 103.5 fever, which with me means that I was not really competent but completely coherent, I staggered to the clinic. On questioning I did remember to say I was on an antidepressant, but didn't say which one. Of course, they perscribed a decongestant, which you DO NOT TAKE with MAOI's just as you don't take antihistamines with any other antidepressant. We figured my pressure went over 180-200. I thought my head would explode and I wished it would! Luckily my husband remembered the MAOI has a main side effect of pressure reactions. So I stopped taking TavistD, which worked very well and I highly recommend it but NOT to someone taking an MAOI.! Luckily, nothing bad happened just a bad bad headache for @2 days.
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