Posted by Terry8 on May 19, 2011, at 8:02:50
In reply to Re: nighttime Parnate dosing?, posted by WAS on May 18, 2011, at 18:01:30
> It took me months to get over the "Sudden Somnolence Syndrome" on Parnate, but for the most part it has passed.
So good to hear. Thanks for posting. My doctor has said that there's a good chance the afternoon sleepiness with pass, but it's hard to have faith in that when you're going comatose every afternoon. As for the insomnia, I tried for two months to fix my nighttime insomnia with diet, lifestyle, medication timing, you name it, and nothing helped -- I was still averaging only four hours of sleep a night. I now realize a lot of this all has to do with MAOIs having an effect on the "clock" proteins that regulate circadian rhythms. That's when I gave in and started taking Ambien at night. I'm wary of sleep medication long term, but I'm not so exhausted all the time now, and the afternoon somnolence is a bit more workable now that it's "just" sleepiness, instead of sleepiness on top of weeks of sleep deprivation.
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