Posted by Questionmark on February 18, 2009, at 3:03:19
In reply to Re: Nardil and insomnia, posted by sean7 on October 24, 2003, at 2:47:18
> For one you should not be on a MAOI to begin with,your doctor is careless or stupid.I say this because MAOI's are dangerous they interact with a lot of foods and drugs some are life threatining I would ask for something else.
Excuse me please do not comment on something about which you are not knowledgeable as if you had knowledge about it.
"For one," a doctor is *not* careless or stupid for putting a person on an MAOI (though they probably are if they are *unwilling* to put any patients on an MAOI). A significant number of people-- including myself-- NEED to be on an MAOI. There is no choice in the matter. Either living on an MAOI or not living. There are also a significant number of people who may not "need" to be on one, per se, but are-- emotionally speaking, at least-- better off on one.
Either way it doesn't matter because they are not nearly as dangerous as you make them sound, if handled properly (remember that a car can kill you easily if not handled properly). I would say they can "interact" with a few or so foods, not "a lot," and they can interact with a sizable number-- but nowhere near the majority-- of medications. But the list (... of potentially dangerous foods and of the general classes of drugs that are most often potentially dangerous [namely, any direct adrenergics and any drugs that enhance serotonin transmission-- and just several other specific drugs that are not in, or not commonly known to be, in the above categories] ...) is easy to learn and remember and follow.
I'm sorry to derail the thread subject for a moment. This is just the third message/post in the first thread i read after having not visited this site for the better part of a long time. What happened here? I hope these kinds of misleading, poorly-knowledgeable-but-strongly-opinionated posts are not common now. It's dIfficult enOUgh to get an MAOI prescription-- and their reputation tarnished enough-- without untruths like this being circulated.Not to mention i now feel again like i mUst be screwed up if i'm on a drug that so many people deem as dangerous and so few people (in terms of percentage) actually utilize. (Not that all others on MAOIs should feel that way i'm probably just being irrational.) But that's not the poster's fault (that it made me feel this way).
But still. Let's get our information right.
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