Posted by myco on March 16, 2009, at 12:28:56
In reply to Re: Tell me about PARNATE's BP issues please., posted by diego on March 16, 2009, at 12:02:03
What's your dx diego?
I'm trying to assess this med as a good option for me: atypical depression, gad, sad. Nardil works well for these mabye parnate will?
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> In my experience the incidence of postural hypotension is lower with Parnate vs. Nardil.
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> My BP is normally very low and a month on Parnate didn't affect standing BP at all.
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> I've only had one hypertensive episode on an MAOI, and that was Nardil+salami.
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> I'm currently on 20 mg Parnate/day. A couple nights ago I ate a cheese sauce containing ½ cup aged parmesan. Whoops! Not a good idea. No reaction, though.
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> One doc told me that hypertensive episodes usually occur within a few hours of combining the tyramine and the MAOI, so if you haven't taken your meds in a few hours there's a lower chance it will occur. Don't know whether that's true or not -- he said he read it in a journal somewhere -- but it's an interesting data point.
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