Posted by Simon79 on May 14, 2008, at 0:00:57
In reply to Re: Nardil- The best AD ever....... » simon79, posted by ace on May 11, 2008, at 22:29:09
Thanks for taking the time to respond ace!
You are a mentor to me, and provide me with encouragement and knowledge which is hugely beneficial to myself and other people reading my posts
I only have 3/4 drinks a day every week or two at the moment when I'm out with friends
and pretty much every other day i drink nothing
My psychiatrist said try to limint my drinking to 3/4 units of alcohol.. most beers in NZ are 1.3 units so that equates to 3 beers = 4 standard drinks
Yeah I drink to supress the psychiatric symptoms which usually takes about 3 units to overcome with the benzos i'm taking.. and the 4th allows me to relax and have a conversation with without my mind being quite so paralyzed with anxiety. The alcohol reduction is/will be much harder for me than the side effects, but hopefully when the nardil kicks in i won't need so much alcohol to socialise without being completely crippled by anxiety.I hope I'm not bugging you too much but I have one last question and you are such a wealth of knowledge I thought I would give it a shot
Do you think if somebody has had severe social anxiety such as I have for 10 years (and overcome most of it (i think i will)) if they have a baby the baby would develope social anxiety also? My psychologist reckons my social anxiety is larely a psychological problem (psychologists 4 ya) but he acknowledges that part of the problem is that I am more genetically vulnerable to anxiety than most (genes). I just don't want 2 have a child and for them to have to go through the ten years of hell I have been through, I think it would be unfair on the child, and selfish on my part for wanting to have a kid without thinking about the potential hell/suffering they might go through. Do you have any children? Did they develope social anxiety? What's your take/opinion/advice on this issue? The reason I am asking this is because guys want to have gf's, and gf's eventually want to get married and many want to have a child.
My opinion is that if my partner is not genetically susceptible to anxiety then the child should be alright because the child we be inheriting only half of my genes and social anxiety is half genetic and half psychological also I believe.P.s thanks for the clinical trials on nardil
Simon79
This brings back memories! Before I started Nardil I was drinking every day- large quantities. In order to go out, without anxiety, I had to be intoxicated. This was obviously detrimental to so many things.I remeber talking about alcohol to my MD. I was very concerned that I wasn't going to be able to drink.....I didn't wan't to loose my alcohol!!!
After starting Nardil I stopped. After 6 weeks, I thought "this is way better than any beer!!" In 7 years (almost) I have been intoxicated twice....both times I drank tap beer (which is contraindicated) and I had no problems at all- except it gave me a heightened response to the alcohol.
To answer your question, I would most certainly AVOID alcohol whilst waiting for Nardil to kick in (certainly not have 4 drinks a day). I DO feel it can interfere, and I have seen evidence for this. I can't explain exactly why I'm sorry.
When Nardil kicks in, and I strongly feel it will!, I would advice to drink bottled beer (tyramine can accumulate in the pipes- resulting in a possible HT crises) I have mentioned this before. I would personally be moderate in my intake.
Do you drink in order to supress psychiatric syndromes, or is it a social thing??
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