Posted by mav27 on March 14, 2009, at 12:55:05
In reply to Re: nardil @ 8 weeks - the good, the bad, and the ugly, posted by g_g_g_unit on March 13, 2009, at 23:22:36
I tried parnate as well but it either made me sleepy at low dose or at 30mg and above caused the hypotension i got with nardil which again left me in hospital a dozen times.
Right now i'm on luvox, only just started, it's strange in that i'm starting off again with the ssri's which i first started 8 years ago but up until a year ago couldn't tolerate due to horrid side effects such as sexual dysfunction and making me feel like a zombie. But as of half way through last year after giving up on parnate i became desperate and had some lexapro sitting around so i tried it... and not a single side effect... now i don't get any side effects at all on ssri's, not even the startup ones like insomnia, nausea ect... so yeah back to square one for me. I was doing well on the lexapro but i thought it was making me sleep 15 hours a day... turns out it wasn't the lexapro but we still can't figure out what's making me sleep so much.
> that's true. as soon as i have a decent night's sleep the aggression disappears. maybe my strategy of using benzos every second night should be reassessed as well, since i'm probably experiencing constant rebound insomnia, which may be aggravating the nardil insomnia. it's unfortunate. most SSRI's i would use just to 'get them out of the way' on my path to Nardil. but now, for the first time, i am genuinely conflicted about staying on a drug. i too still experience a lot of anticipatory anxiety (about *everything*, since i have GAD + OCD) but the nardil allows me to function better in the moment. hmm. are you on anything now? have you tried Parnate?
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> > Hard to tell with me if aggression is caused by meds or lack of sleep because i'm terrible when im sleepy and become very aggressive regardless of if i'm on meds or not.
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> > The rest seems similar to my experiance, although i found i needed to add clonazepam still just to help with the sort of 'anticipatery' anxiety (not sure if i spelt that right) With the nardil i was alot more comfortable speaking to people when it was happening but the thought of speaking to people before hand still caused anxiety which the clonazepam fixed.
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> > So it was like clonazepam got me out of the house and nardil made me more normal when actually out.
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