Posted by sixdollardress on December 8, 2009, at 13:42:05
Hey everyone - I'm new here, but I've been reading these forums for a while now. :)
I was just wondering - I usually reside in Australia, but I'm visiting relatives in the USA for the holidays this year. When I'm Stateside, I always enjoy the novelty of eating such vile things as Taco Bell. However, this year I started taking 40mg/Day Parnate - and...well, the cheese thing. However, I've read that eating "fake" cheese, like Velveeta and nacho cheese stuff, is okay because there's no true aging involved in the process of making it. I've never run into fake cheese, down under, and I guess I was wondering if this was true or false? Does anyone have any experience in eating this stuff on the drug?
Also, as an aside, I was wondering if anyone had any info regarding Parnate and white wine. My family here don't really get the food restriction stuff, and keep pressuring me to have a glass of wine with them. I finally gave in and sloowly sipped a half-glass of this-year white chardonnay over an evening, thinking that if they had to drive me to the ER as a result, at least it would hammer in the seriousness of all this. However, it seemed to go down okay - in spite of what my doctor told me, re: wine. However, I'm worried that if I do this too often, I'm going to get some kind of systemic build up of tyramine and have a hypertensive crisis out of nowhere - rationally, I know this may be unlikely, but anyone who could offer some advice would be loved and adulated. :)
Thank you so much for any help you can give.
poster:sixdollardress
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