Posted by Girlnterrupted78 on September 16, 2009, at 13:27:46
In reply to Re: Parnate 60mgs helping with social anxiety, finally » Girlnterrupted78, posted by SLS on September 15, 2009, at 5:20:40
By the way, Scott, talking about reactions, I wanted to ask you if you ever felt extreme exhaustion as a side effect of Parnate?
This week I had to cancel 2 or 3 activities I had planned to do as part of my normal routine due to exhaustion so severe that I felt close to sick.
I happened to exercise one of those days. I ran 3.5 miles, which were pretty hard to run with my hypotension, because it makes my limbs heavy and easily exhausted, probably because they're not being properly oxygenated with the low bp, but I kept stopping to walk. After that, which is my usual run, and which I normally complete in half the time than I did this time, I could simply not move anymore and I had to cancel a shift I had to work 3 hours later. It was exhausted to the point of feeling ill. And I've been going to bed so early now as a result of the exhaustion.. I usually go to bed at 2am or so, but last night I couldn't keep my eyes from closing on me at 9:30pm.
I also realized the flushing doesn't only happen after eating. Today I had a doctor's appointment and I was telling him about it. At that point my chest was alright. 5 minutes later, he was like.. "I can see a bunch of blotches in your chest now!" and I looked down and was shocked that my chest was suddenly all red and full of blotches. They weren't bumps, just big red stains. He had just taken my blood pressure, so I asked him if maybe he could take it again to see if the blotches meant something, and yes, I had just had a drop in bp. He then inferred that all those flushings were blood pressure related. I had taken my daily dose 1.5 hours before my appointment and he said the bp would peak 1 hour after taking it.
When he took my blood pressure for the first time, it was actually 'high' (while sitting), probably because I'm taking 30g of Parnate all at once. He also took it while standing, and then it had a significant drop, to the point of being 'low' blood pressure. So he said my body was trying to figure out how to deal with all the changes.
So anyway.. the exhaustion is really killing me, but if I had to trade between being tired and being depressed, I'd take tired without thinking.
I still have very light ruminations, but nothing nearly what they used to be. I'm just sort of expecting everything to be "perfect" now that I'm on Parnate and it's supposedly working, so when things aren't so perfect, I do get a sense of anxiety, but again, it's also very light, sort of latent inside of me. Not full blown and paralyzing the way it used to be. Just like a small shadow of what that emotional pain used to be. But it makes me anxious to have such high expectations and not meet them immediately.
Please tell me more about any reactions you're aware of. I want to be prepared and more observant to see what's going on now that my doses are getting bigger.
Thanks a lot.
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