Posted by brooke484 on January 14, 2008, at 22:43:34
In reply to Re: Anxiety without clonzapam-tecknohed (help!) » brooke484, posted by tecknohed on January 14, 2008, at 13:03:27
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> Simple TABLE SALT (sodium based). Thats what you should be using to try to raise your BP. Do you have a BP monitor? Whats it reading? Any pottasium will negate the sodium effects. Check the lable. You may need more salt but you wont know how much unless you check your BP.
> I haven't had any hypotention from marplan...yet. I'm currently on 50mg. When I had it from Nardil I simply sat it out untill it went. There are drugs that can help. Amphetamine is one. Bupropion would probably help too. I've even heard of someone using tyramine (via cheese) to bring thier BP back up, as instructed by thier pdoc. You can actually buy pure tyramine online in the US. BUT DONT DO THIS WITHOUT SPEAKING WITH YOUR DOC 1st! TELL YOUR DOC. He/she may be familiar with your problem & have an answer.
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> Dont know what else to suggest, sorry.
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> What I do know is that this side effect can come & go at any time, but is more likely if you miss/play around with your dose, increase your dose, if you smoke (& try to cut down), drink caffein (& try to cut down) or are unwell. Maybe you HAVE had a cold or flu & this is why the problem has returned? Are you still spreading your dose out? This can help. Maybe you could drop by 5mg? Or increase your caffein intake if you tolorate the stuff already.
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> teck
Thank you so much for your reply. I have been taking the same dose, four times a day, for exactly 5 weeks. At exactly 4 weeks all of this started. Yes, I did have a stomach virus and something else that caused vertigo and an off balance feeling, but now it's just the lightheadedness. I'm not sick anymore.And no, I do not smoke or drink anything except for water and soy milk (caffeine makes me jittery). I didn't realize a virus could affect meds. Do you think that's what it is? Or maybe at 4 weeks I'm feeling the 40 mgs. I don't know. I'll try 35 mgs for a few days and if that doesn't help I'll call my doctor.
Thanks again!
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