Posted by Justherself54 on November 3, 2007, at 11:11:25
In reply to Oh no!!!!!!! I am in big trouble!!!!Nardil Man!, posted by ace on November 3, 2007, at 0:19:58
I had to stop parnate when I had my surgery..both my pdoc and the doctor administering the anesthetic advised me to stop. Personally, as it was elective surgery, I felt more secure having the surgery without parnate..it was a scary enough experience in itself, without knowing there could be complications from it being in my system..that's just me..
The washout period wasn't as bad as I expected..I didn't relapse into depression although I had to take more clonazapam for post surgery anxiety (just about cancelled it a few times)then for over a week I was pretty happy on morphine and then T3's..
We're still not sure if it was restarting Parnate that caused me to have severe chills or just a slower recovery from the type of major surgery I had..
In any event, if I have to have any elective surgeries in the future I will still go through the washout period..as the doctor explained to me..he wanted the surgery to be as safe as they could make it. I did ask him what would happen if I was in a car accident or something where I had to have urgent surgery and was on a MAOI..he told me they would have no choice but to do surgery but the risks of complications would be far greater..
My surgery was in a major hospital and I got the distinct impression from the doctor they would have refused to do the surgery if I had insisted on staying on the MAOI..
Hope your surgery goes well Ace..keep us posted!
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