Posted by Justherself54 on September 9, 2008, at 16:04:35
In reply to Parnate + Orthostatic Hypotension, posted by uncouth on September 7, 2008, at 10:17:41
Sorry no one is answering your post. I've read it a couple of times but I've never used add on meds with MAOI's, so I was hoping some of the more knowledgable posters would chime in.
On my first trial with parnate I had orthostatic hypotension pretty badly and had to go down on my hands and knees pretty often and wasn't able to go over 20 mg. as I was spending a lot of time crawling around on my hands and knees. On this trial things were different..I only had a few occasions of lightheadedness that were short lived. Unfortunately, I have received little to no benefit from it this time.
My Nardil trial ended due to a strange side effect. My pdoc was adamant that I do the 14 day washout before I started parnate. I wonder if you still are feeling some effects of going on Parnate without titrating down on the Nardil.
I had far more side effects on Nardil that I did on Parnate, but everyone reacts differently.
What are your blood pressure readings? If you are in danger of hurting yourself due to the severity of the hypotensive episodes, I think you need to put a call in to your doctor asap.
Also, the MAOI's seem to take a lot longer for full benefit than other classes of AD's. Perhaps your Nardil trial was discontinued too quickly.
I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to stick a big HELP on your subject line...sometimes that helps to stick out in the long list of threads. I hope you feel better soon.
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