Posted by g_g_g_unit on October 16, 2009, at 20:07:05
In reply to Parnate 4 OCD? Anyone with personal experiences?, posted by delna on October 16, 2009, at 11:35:32
> Hi,
> I've been taking Parnate for a few weeks now for suicidal bipolar depression. I also have SEVERE OCD (as a totally separate disorder) that's nothing to do with depression. It becomes psychotic really fast but I am an excellent responder to SSRI's and SNRI's (so it usually does not come to that).
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> What my pdoc failed to tell me (till today) was that he was not totally sure if Parnate would keep the OCD away. Unfortunately serotonin based drugs cannot be added to Parnate and from what I have read so far (in journals) Parnate has very little benifit in OCD.
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> But I wanted to know if anyone has had personal experience with Parnate and OCD.
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> Currently I am considering giving Parnate up anyway (for various reasons) and if I am not pretty confident it will stop my OCD from returning then that will tip the balance for me- I will give it up immediately instead of taking that chance (since the wash out period and withdrawal means I have to wait before adding an SSRI/ SNRI and in the mean time I may fully lose my mind!!! No kidding!)
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> I would really appreciate anyone's personal experiences with Parnate and OCD. Good and bad.
> I even posted on an OCD board and only one woman said it helped her but there are more Parnate users here so hopefully......
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> Thanks so much.
> Love
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> PS: Antipsychotics do little to keep the OCD away- they only help with the psychotic component. Plus I developed a TD reaction on one so I don't want to risk it.
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>i don't mean to scare you but at 10 and 20mg, Parnate significantly worsened my OCD, especially at night, where the drug would take on a horrible paranoic quality that left me in near-tears.
the GOOD NEWS is that at 30mg and 40mg it is having a very good effect on physical anxiety, and in turn helping the OCD. i imagine higher doses will reap more benefits in that respect, so if you do want to continue with it, be patient and maybe have some benzos on hand. there are a couple of studies on pubmed where Parnate is successfully used to treat OCD. Nardil made mine worse when i trialled it, so you never know
if this is too personal, please feel free not to answer, but did your OCD turn psychotic from stress? mine's pretty bad. if i thought about just trying to manage it through therapy if Parnate doesn't work out (and indeed "going psychotic" is one of my OCD fears), so i was just wondering if it can happen to any OCD sufferer ..
thanks
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