Posted by nutjob on August 7, 2007, at 15:52:06
In reply to Re: Nardil... do the stupid side effects ever dimi » nutjob, posted by girlnterrupted78 on August 7, 2007, at 12:51:57
girl,
couple other things I forgot to mention...some people never get beyond the fatigue. again, everyone's different. in such cases psychostimulants like provigil or even dexedrine are often prescribed. amphetamines are said to be contraindicated with Nardil in the old literature, yet countless people take them with nardil and have no troubles. i drink a fair amount of caffeine with Nardil and experience no ill effects--and caffeine too is said to be contraindicated. though, when i first started nardil caffeine gave me palpitations and made me irritable, now it actually seems to be less peripherally stimulating than in my pre-Nardil days. 99% of the info out there on Nardil is extremely outdated, and much of it is inaccurate and outdated. sadly few doctors/researchers care to do anything about it, and of course we all know why (big pharma). it's up to people like you and i to fill in the gaps and inform others. there are millions of people in the world just like us, and most of them will probably never hear of Nardil. doctors seldom even know much about it (including my own).
hell, why not wait 6 months before you give up on Nardil? or even longer? i'm assuming that if you're taking nardil you've already tried most every other pharmaceutical intervention, including the benzos. if nardil doesn't give you any relief at this point, non-pharmacological treatments like CBGT might be your only option, or something less conventional like neuro-lingistic programming and/or hypnosis.
one other drug that comes to mind is called Amisulpride; it's not available in America but it can be ordered overseas. it's an anti-psychotic with paradoxical effects on dopamine (pro-dopaminergic at low doses). some people claim to experience significant relief from SA with it--I tried it just prior to Nardil, and experienced nothing of the sort, though it did seem to provide some degree of relief from the depression i experience as a result of social isolation. but i'd much rather attack the route of the problem than simply take something that makes me less miserable for being so alone, i.e., the so-called "depression" i experienced was undoubtedly a result of severe rejection sensitivity.
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