Posted by ace on October 29, 2009, at 2:37:38
In reply to Parnate losing effectiveness. Why?? Help please., posted by Girlnterrupted78 on October 29, 2009, at 1:14:33
> I've been on Parnate since mid-August. As soon as I hit 60mgs, I began to feel significantly better depression and social wise. I wrote here about Parnate dealing with my social anxiety and making me a much pleasant person to be around.
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> These effects persisted for a few weeks but now I am beginning to feel they're fading away. I'm not nearly as depressed as I was before I began taking it, or feel socially anxious either, but the effect does seem to have gone down more towards "flat" and I have had a few depressive days where I've cried like I used to in the old days.
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> When I went up to 60mgs, I was feeling rather friendly and open; I easily smiled to people I came in contact with and I was seen as pleasant and optimistic. I can still smile, but it's a little more forced and the other day I began feeling depressed and guilty all over again.
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> What am I supposed to do now? My doctor said "well, it seems like the first effect you got from Parnate was just "too good"'. What on earth does he mean? That I should be happy now that it's no longer working as good?
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> It's funny, but I disagree with him. Because this is exactly what he told me when I compared Celexa to Parnate and told him that even though Parnate was doing a great job, Celexa had done it even better. He said then that 'Celexa was probably just "too good" to be true.' Now that Parnate is decreasing, turns out PARNATE is also 'too good'??? I feel like he's just trying to lower my expectations every time something doesn't work as good as it has in the past and wants me to be satisfied with mediocre results.
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> Has anyone gone through a period where Parnate works very good and then suddenly begins to lose its effectiveness? What can you do about it? My doctor just told me to go back to 80mgs. I was already on 80mgs and didn't see any difference between 60 and 80mgs. Because of that, he said it wasn't necessary to remain on 80mgs so we dropped back to 70mgs, and then it decreased in effectiveness. So now we're going back up to 80mgs again.
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> Could someone familiar with Parnate tell me what can I do at this point? Is there a way to keep it working permanently? My life literally depends on it. My depression affects everything in my life, jobs, family, social, mental, relationships, etc. If it's not treated, I'm really not functional and I begin to thinking about ending it all.
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> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Go up to 100+ mg and stay at that dose....and monitor response
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