Posted by malcolm664 on May 22, 2007, at 14:08:39
Hi: I've been on Parnate since toward the 23rd of April and I've been steadily increasing the dose to the 60 mgs I'm on currently.
But...nothing.
My doc is not comfortable with me being on much more than 60 mgs and I've read here that it takes a much higher dose in some people before the effect starts to kick in.
My question is: what's the max dose of Parnate you can safely be on? And how do I go about convincing him that I need to be on something higher than 60 mgs?
Are there any reliable websites that anyone knows about where dosages are higher than 60 mgs before anyone notices any effect from the med? Or is around 60 mgs in fact the max safe dose for this MAOI? My doc may be willing to go up by maybe 10 mgs max (to 70 mgs daily), but probabably not much more than that. It's very frustrating, b/c I seem to have read in here that people have been on almost double that dose before they notice any effect.
The anxiety alone from waiting for the med to work is of course not helping things at all.
BTW, I'm also on Klonopin (for sleep) and Xanax XR, I THINK they are helping, but it's not a dramtic enough difference that I can say for sure.
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