Posted by Quintal on August 12, 2007, at 20:35:00
In reply to MAOI users with med alerts, posted by fires on August 12, 2007, at 19:52:54
I wore a med-alert bracelet when I was taking Parnate. I also made a small business card listing the most pertinent points in my wallet, lest the bracelet fail me. That might sound overly-dramatic but I am accident-prone and paramedics use tramadol as a first-line analgesic here, and that can be deadly for people taking MAOIs. So I made a card emphasising that point very strongly, and also that morphine and codeine were safe, just in case they followed my psychiatrist's line of thinking "You can't take opiates with MAOIs, so if you get run over by a bus there will be nothing we can give you".
I have a horror that most medical staff will say "Emm-ahyyy-whaaaaaaaaaatt????" at reading MAOI on a medical bracelet, and just plunge the syringe in anyway. I have no faith in them. It's hard enough trying to educate psychiatrists, people who are experts and should know about these things, never mind ordinary medics and nurses.
So yes, if you have a med-alert bracelet I would use it just in case.
Q
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