Posted by Questionmark on September 29, 2009, at 23:37:58
In reply to Nardil dosage times irrelevant?, posted by pedr on September 19, 2009, at 19:15:46
Forget any theoretical mumbo jumbo that might suggest it is just as well to take all your Nardil doses at once.
From my multi-year, revolving-dose, obsessively over-analytical observations and experience with Nardil, i have no doubt that the more you can spread your doses out throughout the day, the better.
In my opinion, a *minimum* of 3x per day is ideal, as frustratingly inconvenient as that is.
> Hi gang,
> Wikipedia says the following on its Nardil page:
> "Although phenelzine has a relatively short half-life (approximately 1.2 hours), unlike most other drugs, phenelzine irreversibly disables MAO, and as a result, it does not necessarily need to be present in the blood at all times for its effects to be sustained."
>
> Does this mean that it makes no difference whatsoever, in terms of its efficacy, whether I take my daily amount in one go, or 1 pill every two hours or any variant thereof?
>
> I ask because it just occurred to me that I take 2 x 15mg before bed (11pm) and 3 x 15mg when I get up (7am) which is a period of only 8 hours, leaving 16 hours without a dose. I've been doing this through habit mainly.
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> Thanks,
> Pete
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