Posted by stargazer on November 12, 2006, at 13:07:15
In reply to Re: NEED ADVICE...How to choose a MAO????????, posted by josephine grandoni on November 11, 2006, at 23:01:26
Josephine, and others...
So are you are Nardil or Parnate? and at what dosage?
I was looking at my notes from years ago and think I took Nardil 15 mg 2X day from 1987-1989. It stopped working in 1990. Then I took Marplan 30 mg from 1991 until 1994 until Roche discontinued the drug. I then tried Parnate 10 mg, increased to 30 mg, but with poor response.
I recently tried Marplan again, after hearing it had been rereleased and only got a minimal response. I then began Cymbalta at 30 mg, increasing to 60 mg with resultant severe headaches, going back to 30 mg, and then adding Seroquel, which snapped me out of the depths.
This past week I stopped the Cymbalta, am still on Seroquel (100 mg at night)and now need to add an AD for prevention of relapse.
Perhaps NARDIL would be the place to start?
Other than Nardil, Parnate, Marplan or Ensam,
what other AD's work by inhibiting MAO A or B.And what are the drugs that affect the MAO-B?
I know they re also used for Parkinson's patients (i.e. selegilene) but I don't know how they work for depression and what success others have hadon them for deprression.I am SO overwhelmed with trying to come up with answers for this myself. I have been faithfully working with my doctor to find the answer but realize that in 25 years we have not found the answer, as much as I have tried to do my own research. I am really angry about there never being a "fix" or a logical "game plan" to follow. It all just seems SO random, SO unstructured, SO uncertain. Does it have to be this way or is there really no better approach to treating depression?????
SG
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