Posted by blueboy on July 3, 2008, at 14:00:42
In reply to Re: Nardil withdrawal -) back to Parnate, posted by undopaminergic on July 3, 2008, at 5:08:44
> In theory, you only need to wait until your Nardil concentrations have declined to negligible levels, or even sooner, as long as you start with low doses of Parnate. Officially, however, I think the instructions are to wait 14 days.
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> > Also, I've always wondered why can't Nardil and Parnate be taken at the same time? What would happen?
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> In theory they could be taken at the same time, but I'm not aware of anyone actually doing it. Since both are MAOIs, the risk of using high doses of both simultaneously is a MAOI overdose, which may include symptoms of serotonin syndrome and/or hypertensive crisis.I wouldn't do it, period. You'd be playing with fire. According to the article on www.mentalhealth.com,
"Phenelzine should not be administered together with or in rapid succession to [Parnate], because Hypertensive Crises and convulsive seizures, fever, marked sweating, excitation, delirium, tremor, coma and circulatory collapse may occur."
I believe, or have no reason to disbelieve, your statement that it is possible to combine them safely "in theory". I just wouldn't want to test it out on my beautiful body ;)
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