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Re: MAOI is making me more anxious, SLS, Ed e.c.t » Tom Twilight

Posted by ace on July 19, 2005, at 0:59:51

In reply to MAOI is making me more anxious, SLS, Ed e.c.t, posted by Tom Twilight on July 18, 2005, at 15:49:07

> I need the biggest brains in babble land to solve this problem
>
> I’ve been taking Marplan/Isocarboxazid for almost to weeks.
>
> My Pdoc prescribed it for anxiety and social anxiety
> Its supposed to work well for these problems being a Hydrazine MAOI and therefore similar to Nardil at least in theory.
>
> At 10mgs it didn’t really have much effect on my anxiety, at 20mgs it made it much worse.
> What on earth is wrong with me?
> Why am I responding this way?
>
> My Pdoc says he has never encountered this reaction before and I’m worried he’ll think I’m making it up.
> I don’t really know what to do, I’ve heard of Parnate causing anxiety but never Marplan or Nardil.
>
> What should I do?
>

Stixck with it. All MAOI's have a potential to cause an INITIAL paradoxical anxiety. Nardil at first made me anxious, now it has the opposite effect. Use a benzo in the first weeks of therapy to nullify the anxiety.

Ace

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