Posted by Crazy Horse on January 31, 2007, at 17:13:32
In reply to Re: Third time (on Parnate) a Charm??-provigil, posted by tessellated on January 31, 2007, at 15:42:39
> CH,
> Curiously, upon browsing wiki's listing on provigil it was very specific about not combining it with MAOI's.
>
> I've done it, and found it, as they said, highly synergistic.
> But not on my BP, nor heart rate. I lowered both doses, as I did similarly with wellbutrin and parnate, another contraindication.
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> I'm only a thirtysomething, and never had a hypertensive reaction, but mania did come up. Now I'm supposedly bipolar-great!.
>
> So as there are no studies I doubt the doc will co-prescribe, even though psychophamacologists do coprescribe amphetamines w/parnate. I don't think the jury is out on what provigil does, let alone to the cardio/sympathic systems.
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> It works like crazy, but exacerbates the 11pm, time to get to work mentality.
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> I'm back on provigil solo, scared and tired of the parnate rollercoaster.
>
> best,
> l8Still, although it has it's down side, NOTHING makes me feel better than Parnate. I have combined provigal with Parnate and had no problems. Despite what they say, i think it's safer than combining 'real' amphetimines w/parnate.
-Monte
poster:Crazy Horse
thread:727824
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