Posted by Quintal on May 10, 2007, at 17:52:18
In reply to Parnate Help/Question, posted by Joe44 on May 9, 2007, at 23:30:01
Hi Joe,
You're the only person I've heard of having a positive response to such a low dose of Parnate! I think higher doses would very likely be more beneficial to you. I noticed racing heartbeat and euphoria after taking my morning dose (40mg I think), and after each subsequent dose. There is a phenomena that people here have coined 'Parnate Slump', which is a sense of drowsiness and heavy fatigue that hits quite suddenly, usually in the afternoon as the stimulant effect of morning dose is wearing off. Most people taking doses higher than 20mg have found that spreading their dose evenly throughout the day can help with this and delay the fatigue until a more appropriate time (i.e. bedtime). Unfortunately this tends to cause insomnia for which most Parnatians remedy with a benzo or Ambien/Lunesta etc. Lyrica has also been used for this purpose.
The penis shrinkage might be due to having more noradrenaline knocking about your synapses. It's a powerful vasoconstrictor meaning that less blood flows into your penis when you get an erection, hence the perceived shrinkage. This is common with noradrenergic drugs - can't say I noticed it much myself on Parnate but it was very pronounced with reboxetine.
Q
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