Posted by Justherself54 on December 28, 2007, at 9:52:44
In reply to Re: Parnate available-Phoenix1 » mav27, posted by Phoenix1 on December 28, 2007, at 8:39:48
It took a few weeks for the insomnia to really manifest itself. Will your pdoc let you hold on to one benzo for bedtime? I hope the insomnia doesn't happen, but I think more often than not it does. My pdoc and I decided to try MAOI's, hoping to get more than 6 months or a year at best as every single med has pooped out on me..when I see people post on here that have been on it for 20 years with no poop out, it gives me hope.
I don't know the medical term for poop out, other than I think it might be called serotonin fatigue and I found another term on the web called tachyphylaxis. Good luck to you!
> Yikes, that's not good to hear. On the other hand, I've now heard the full spectrum of how people respond to Nardil so I will just have to wait and see how it affects me. My pdoc started me on an escalating dose: 15mg for 3 days, 30mg for 3 days, 45mg for a week, then 60mg for a week. The end goal depending on how I respond is 1mg/kg, per published literature. That would mean a 90mg dose. My insomnia is already bad, and my pdoc is tapering me off benzos completely, so I don't know what to expect. I have very high hopes that Nardil will help me. My only previous MAOI experience with Moclobemide was a huge but very short lived success.
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> BTW, any ideas on how to prevent the dreaded Nardil poop-out before it happens? Is their a medical term for "poop-out" for lit searches?
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> Thanks,
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> Phoenix1
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> > > Interesting that your insomnia was worse on >Nardil than on Parnate. I'd always heard the >reverse was more common.
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> > I thought insomnia couldn't get worse than when i was on parnate... boy was i wrong.. nothing will ever compare to how bad Nardil caused me insomnia when i was on it recently.
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