Posted by jedi on May 24, 2006, at 4:06:09
In reply to lithium augmentaqtion with parnate, posted by deuce224 on May 22, 2006, at 12:24:15
> I have tried many AD's and nothing has really worked for me. There is the possibility that I am BP II, but my syptoms lean more toward major recurrent depression. Recently, I have heard that for some people when Ad's don't work they add lithium and this seems help the AD work or just is the combo they need. Has anyone tried this? do you take full dosage of lithium (900 mg's or higher) or do you need less? I have been on parnate 30 mg's for 2 weeks and I am pushing it up to 40 mg's today. Hopefully this will do something, but so far I have had no positive benefits. Perhaps I need a lithium augment. Any thoughts?
Hi,
I have not tried lithium augmentation with a MAOI. That said, addition of lithium is one of the most tested and proven augmentation strategies in the literature. The MAOIs sometimes take a month or more at an effective dosage to work. 20mg is quite a low dose.
Good Luck,
JediRapid antidepressant effect of addition of lithium to tranylcypromine.
Link:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=3711366&query_hl=4&itool=pubmed_DocSumEfficacy of lithium-tranylcypromine treatment in refractory depression.
Link:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=3920923&query_hl=4&itool=pubmed_DocSum
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