Posted by Honore on June 9, 2007, at 13:02:31
In reply to Re: spinach » Honore, posted by girlnterrupted78 on June 8, 2007, at 23:15:05
Hi, girlinterrupted.
As I think stargazer was saying below-- you;ll know if there's a problem-- your BP will be much higher-- like 160/100, or perhaps higher-- and you'll feel it in your chest and general body-- that there's a heavy, very agitated physical feeling.
My BP is rather low (98/55 mostly) so my Pdoc said he would be concerned if it went over 150/100. It's mostly the first number you have to worry about. Depending on your BP, if it goes up to 160 or 170 or higher, it's time to think about the ER, especially if you have a bad headache and tightness at the back of your head and neck, or become extremely lightheaded and feel like you might pass out.
I had a minor case of serotonin syndrome once from taking cymbalta and trazadone (PS, it's not just MAOIs that can cause serotonin syndrome)-- and you really can tell when something's wrong. It's not like normal headache or lightheadedness from low BP-- it's a much more profound and persistent unpleasant and sick-feeling sensation. My case was not that severe and was time-limited-- but I knew FOR SURE that something was definitely wrong. It really wasn't the sort of thing you aren't that clear on, when it happens.
By the way, I do think the lists of potentially tyramine-high products are overstated. It's good to be vigilant at the beginning-- and check a lot of things. But you'll find that, unless you're unusually sensitive-- most of the prohibitons are things that happened once or twice-- and suddenly got onto a list. Most don't happen again. But they stay on the list.
Once you have a sense of what to avoid-- which things are fermented, which things like wine, certain cheeses, soy sauce, etc, you're just not going to try-- you'll have a regimen that you can rely on without thinking much about it.
The only time I even gave it any thought was when I was buying something new in a health food store-- or recently, when I was taking some homeopathic meds-- which did interact. But I felt the interactions long before they posed any problem.
At the beginning, I took my BP a lot-- after a while, I almost never took it. It's like anything-- you get desensitized-- and it becomes your ordinary, everyday, unconscious way of life.
Honore
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