Posted by Questionmark on November 2, 2008, at 22:07:34
In reply to Re: nardil food washout period, posted by bobbiedobbs on November 1, 2008, at 15:08:04
An important question is how long will you be over there? Please, heed what i am saying. I have gone through Nardil withdrawal. I am talking *severe* depression. If you will be gone for more than a week, or two at the max.-- i would highly urge you to consider staying on the Nardil and just avoid any risky foods and see if you can bring some nifedipine or chlorpromazine with you as an emergency back-up. My personal opinion is that as long as you avoid any aged cheese, and maybe tap beer, you should be fine. The tap beer avoidance would probably be hard there esp though, but i can say that i have *never* had any kind of hypertensive reaction from draft beer with Nardil, although the maximum dose i was ever on was 60mg and i've never had draft beer in Europe (which they SAY is more risky for some reason, but i am somewhat skeptical of that).
Listen though. If your reaction to a Nardil discontinuation is anything like mine, the serious withdrawal and depression will not hit right away (even w/ a cold turkey stop), there will be some changes, etc., and maybe even some bad depression-- but after about 3 or 4 weeks from reducing your dose or, especially, discontinuing, a serious, severe, unspeakable depression can quite possibly result.
I hate to be discouraging, but i'd rather you be aware beforehand so as not to ruin your entire trip.
But Good luck with whatever decision you and your dr make. And have a great trip!
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> > > Temporarily getting off MAOIs for trip to Europe. My doc has given me a ramp down period where I get to only 15 mg, then stop completely 1 week before departure. I've heard a longer period is warranted. Opinions?
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