Posted by malcolm664 on May 31, 2007, at 13:25:08
In reply to Re: Advice from Parnate users please.. » sophia04, posted by Jedi on May 31, 2007, at 2:49:54
> Hi Sophia,
> I'm on 80mg of Parnate and it has taken three months for my daytime fatigue to lessen to a tolerable level. For two months I was taking two hour naps in the late afternoon when I got off work. So far, for me, Parnate has not been as efficacious as Nardil for my atypical depression or social anxiety. However, the weight gain side effect of Nardil is not present for me on Parnate. Baring a complete relapse, I'm going to stick it out for a couple of more months. I was really beginning to wonder if the daytime somnolence would ever go away; it just takes a lot of time. I take 25mg of Seroquel for the medication induced insomnia.
> Good Luck,
> Jedi
>I'm on 60 mgs of Parnate, and somehow just this week (I think) that the med finally beginning to work. After suffering several weeks of almost intolerable anxiety, I'm finding that the anxiety is all of a sudden much less. I'm still not experiencing any euphoria like I did on Nardil, however.
I know that the change seems so sudden that I almost have a hard time believing it. Could it be my imagination?
Re: being on 80 mgs, my doc refuses to go above 60; he says that he doesn't want to do anything that would harm me. Of course, I appreciate that (and he is a well known psychopharmacologist in Wash, DC; I had to wait almost 2 months before I got an initial appointment to see him), so ultimately I'll have to trust his judgement, but at the same time I'm very curious to see whether the higher dose will replicate the wonderful effect of Nardil (alas, it was very short-lived).
Jedi: I'm curious, did you try Provigil for the drowsinesss? That's another med my doc refuses to prescribe while on an MAOI (he doesn't want me on any stimulants of any kind - not even coffee). Of course, I've been taking 1000 mg of caffeine tabs - against his wishes - b/c otherwise I wouldn't be able to function at all (and even WITH 1000 mgs of caffeine tabs, I STILL get drowsy).
But I've been reading about several members of this board being on an MAOI and Provigil and there have apparently been no probs, that I'm wondering if in this case he is being a bit too cautious.
Given that Provigil is a completely different kind of stimulant than the others (Ritalin, Dexosyn, Concerta--all worked great at keeping me awake, but none really did anything for my non-verbal learning disorder), I'm just curious if anyone knows what the potential danger is of Provigil and MAOI's?
Malcolm
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