Posted by JayBTV2 on February 27, 2010, at 7:39:40
In reply to Re: Is anyone currently taking Marplan?, posted by stargazer2 on February 26, 2010, at 21:59:03
> I'm not on Marplan now, but I took it in the early 90's and it was very beneficial to me for a few years. It worked as well or better than my current med, Nardil.
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> The second time I tried it, it did not work. Back inthe 90's, the manufacturor (Roche) stopped making it since it was not a money maker for them, sending those of us on it, into a tailspin for many years, trying to find another med that would give me my life back. That never happened.
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> Only in the last few years did another company put it back on the market and I think they messed with the formula (of course) and it didn't help me at all. IT could have been my chemistry had changed too, but it's hard to know.
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> But it's certainly worth trying. I had no real side effects that I can remember, but we forget the bad stuff, if the end result is successful.
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> Stargazer
Thanks for the info. I've heard of formulation changes on Nardil wasn't aware Marplan changed as well (although I did know it went off the market for a bit).Hard to find a lot of anecdotal experiences about it now so that's probably not a good thing.
I've been on Parnate since December 18th (about 2 months now) but only the last month or so over 40mgs. Currently (since last week) trying 60 to 80 to see if we can get it jumpstarted. It not really doing much for me and I tend to crash in the late afternoon and want to take my seroquel to go to bed early (7/8ish).
I took Nardil a few years back but was probably manic by the time I was put on it. I had a doctor who'd give me anything and I was taking it w/ a TCA, ritain (taking more than I should), smoking pot, and a few other things considered recreational (vicodin I believe). Anyway can't blame everything on Nardil but I went psychotic manic which sadly does happen to me if I'm not careful. That was the last time I held a decent job :(
I think I'd be ok trying Nardil again now w/ the Lithium and Lamictal and being clean and stable but I also remember gaining a lot of weight. And I definitely read weight gain and sexual disfunction are SEs of Nardil and (probably) Marplan.
The main reason I asked about Marplan was to hope that maybe it 1) didn't have those SEs for some and 2) was effective. My doc mentioned it to me as an option at our last vistit although he doesn't currently have any patients taking the "new" Marplan. I'm determined to give Parnate a long fair trial but I really need it to work for me - hopefully that'll happen soon.
Thanks for the post though guys and if anyone else has any semi-recent Marplan experiences please chime in. It's most likely my next course if Parnate doesn't kick in now that I'm in the "higher" ranges.....
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