Posted by Questionmark on April 27, 2008, at 2:38:21
In reply to Re: Parnate Users-increase in Depression? » Bob, posted by Quintal on April 21, 2008, at 15:16:56
Your pdoc sounds like a jerk-- and an idiot. Apparently they're not any better in the UK than here in the US. Oh yeah, and that whole lowering to one pill a day maintenance dose thing? Pure bull. I just wrote a whole post about that concept in a different thread.
Maybe you should try to find another doc who would be willing to prescribe you Parnate, if you're not fine right now?
> Because the prescribing guidelines set an upper limit of 30mg here in the UK, in fact I think the PDR in America says the same thing, but most pdocs there seem to prescribe *much* higher doses. I didn't want to continue at 30mg because it made me feel worse in that dose range. I don't know why, but the prescribing advice is too conservative and an awful lot of people that come here are taking more than the recommended maximum dose. The prescribing guidelines recommend lowering the dose to one tablet daily as a maintenance dose, but I've never heard of anyone doing this.
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> My pdoc actually discharged me at the next appointment, so I was left with no treatment for two years. That's just the way he is, it has no reflection on the efficacy of Parnate.
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> Q
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