Posted by JayBTV2 on February 13, 2010, at 6:52:02
In reply to Re: MAOIs and orthostatic hypotension, posted by George Romero on February 8, 2010, at 11:08:06
> thanks for your post. i didn't really wash out between the emsam and parnate for any meaningful period of time. the doctor said not to worry about it, but the pharmacist made such a big deal about it that i did wait 2 days before starting parnate anyway (doc said 0 days, pharmacist said 7, so i figured 2 was probably good enough). so i went from 9 mg of emsam, waited two days, then started 5 mg of parnate. did that for about a week, then started taking 5 mg twice per day. that's when the super-bad hypotension started. feeling much better today though. no idea why, but i'll take it. i was expecting for this to be a problem since i've always had very low bp--maybe that's why i wasn't more freaked out.
>So you're splitting the 10mg pills? They look coated to me - not sure if splitting does anything. I take the brand and perhaps the generic are different if that's what you're taking.
I posted a lot earlier in this thread that I was having issues w/ Parnate and orhtostatic hypotension as well. But there's good news. The o.h. started when I hit 30mg but then after a few days of 30mg went away. When I went up to 40mg (a few weeks later) it came back for a few days.
So IMO it appears (at least for me) to be a side effect that goes away w/in a few days of a dose increase.
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