Posted by ColoradoSnowflake on February 16, 2010, at 0:36:08
In reply to Re: Parnate Update- Help!, posted by willey on February 15, 2010, at 15:39:51
Hi Everyone!
Thanks so very much to all of you for the good ideas and the support!!
Tomorrow I'm going to write to Dr. Ivan Goldberg. I'd love to find out if anyone but me has gotten crippling RA from Parnate use. Maybe he'll even answer! Thanks Rick for the address.
I see my pdoc on Wed. and will ask about the washout between maoi's. I would try Marplan and maybe even Nardil if I didn't have to go through horrible washouts every time. My pdoc is good with maois. He had me on Nortrip with the Parnate which was a good thing for me. So clearly he's not afraid of maois. I'll also see about some Xanax (no klonipin for me..it lays me low with depression) or maybe some percodan if I have trouble again lowering my dose of parnate. I'd rather be knocked out than go through what I did from 80mg to 60mg of Parnate!! I don't ever use those drugs so I'm sure he would give them to me if he thought they would help me more than hurt me.
He did let me go high on the Parnate but didn't like it when my RA was so bad I was falling all the time. It was killing me too.I do take Modafinal every day now and it's very helpful. I plan to continue it.
Wellbutrin helps me about 5 or 6 on a scale of 10. I don't cry constantly, but it doesn't take away the thoughts of suicide like Parnate did. It's better than nothing! It's about the only drug I've been able to take without severe reactions. Maybe I can supplement Wellbutrin with enough other stuff that it could work for me.
I'm going to ask him about the Campral. I see it is for alcoholics. I'm a recovering one for quite a few years now, so maybe that would be a good drug for me??
Thanks so much!! I feel like I have some more things to try and to think about now, and that helps me LOTS.
Hugs to you all!!
Gayle
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