Posted by stargazer on March 4, 2007, at 19:58:22
In reply to Re: Emsam is my first MAOI » stargazer, posted by UgottaHaveHope on March 4, 2007, at 16:44:52
My pdoc will prescribe MAO's but for some reason, like so many other conventional pdocs, he avoided them after I failed Parnate back in the early 90's. This was when Prozac was first available and that was the only drug everyone was trying, so that is what I was put on.
Recently, when I suggested trying Nardil again, my pdoc's response was to try Emsam first.
I'm sure if I pushed for Nardil he would go along with it but it's too bad the pdocs can't be the ones that know more than the patients and come up with the suggestion, rather than the other way around.
It was my suggestion to retry Marplan last year since it had be rereleased many years after Roche discontinued it back in the early 90's. Unfortunately this retrial was in combination with Lamictal which I had already been on so my pdoc was afraid to stop the Lamictal and just have me on Marplan. It didn't work anyway, but I thought later I wish I had been on it without the effect of Lamictal.
I guess I have been on most of the MAO's, Nardil, Marplan, Parnate and Emsam. Parnate is the only one I have had no response to at all, the others I have had good to excellent responses. Isn't that enough of a track record to have had my pdoc retry me automatically on them, I don't get the hesitency. Like I've said before, the pdoc that originally tried me on Nardil was right on the money. No reluctance on her part. Unfortunately she moved to teach at Dartmouth a few months after I first saw her. Too bad all the smart ones ones are recruited to better places to teach.
SG
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