Posted by stargazer2 on February 26, 2010, at 22:24:55
In reply to Parnate Update- Help!, posted by ColoradoSnowflake on February 14, 2010, at 20:37:36
Hi Gayle,
I'm on Nardil 30 and Wellbutrin XL 150, only after much research and bringing information to my pdoc for him to read, before he reluctantly prescribed Wellbutrin with Nardil.
If I was going to have a reaction it would have occurred in the first week and I've been on it now for almost a year, if I can remember.
I can't say if that is what has helped me the most but Nardil alone was just so-so, so I went to an endocrinologist to be worked up to see if my thyroid was out of whack and I was prescribed Synthroid for a marginal thyroid level.
After awhile on the Nardil-Synthroid combo, I came up with trying Wellbutrin, since my pdoc had already told me he would not prescribe a stimulant as I had a reaction on one while taking Nardil. I believe my depression is closely related to ADD, the chicken and egg theory.
But, not every doc will add "countraindicated" meds, like Wellbutrin, to Nardil and that is the problem, but understandably with the risk of a reaction being so great, the docs have to be very cautious, and in most cases will not go down that road.
I even told my doc I owuld sign a waiver so that it anything happened to me I would not hold him accountable. He kind of laughted at that suggestion but did agree to ordering Wellbutrin.
I was just lucky he did because I was reaching a critical point in my depression treatment.
All I can tell you is it is working for me but again, the doc has to do what he is comfortable with and that is totally out of our hands.
I feel for you. Life is so unfair when you have sicknesses that are not easily treated. But there are so many drugs that didn't exist when I was first diagnosed. Almost too many though, so it is more difficult to find the magic bullet(s).
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