Posted by Enigma on April 25, 2009, at 5:36:35
In reply to Re: Remeron's now put my friend off meds for life., posted by metric on April 24, 2009, at 21:03:16
> Why is phenelzine preferred over tranylcypromine (Parnate in the U.S.)? I think the latter is more effective and with fewer side-effects. It is, however, more prone to dangerous (but still rare) hypertensive events. My guess is that's the reason for the preference of phenelzine.
It totally depends who you are, you should know that. Drugs would differently on everybody, including their side-effects. I tried Parnate and hated it. I couldn't tolerate it, and it nothing for my depression - at least I couldn't even get to a dose where it would be effective, due to side-effects. That's why I'm on Nardil. I'm used to most of Nardil's side effects by now, but it took a very long time, and I was off/on it at least 3-4 times because I couldn't deal with the side-effects.
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> > With SSRI's all being very different, there was a good chance that citalopram or sertraline would have worked where fluoxetine failed. But for some reason he decided to start her off on Cymbalta.
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> I disagree. I've taken them all (including venlafaxine and duloxetine) and none of them work. They all have horrible side-effects.They all have horrible side-effects, FOR YOU, not everyone.
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