Posted by zonked on June 16, 2011, at 21:41:53
In reply to Re: Nardil HAS kicked in! But the insomnia...?, posted by emmanuel98 on June 16, 2011, at 20:42:01
> When I started on parnate, I was also on perphenazine because the doc at the hospital wanted to try something to get me out of bed during the two-week wash out period. I got akathisia bad from the 36mg perphenazine I was taking. The p-doc at the day program told me to take some benadryl. But I called the pharmacy and they told me not to take benadryl with parnate. So you might want to call the pharmacist about anti-histamines for sleep. They are contra-indicated with MAOIs.
That's what the PDR and the monograph say, but I can tell you from personal experience that Benadryl is safe with MAOIs... my doctor cleared it with Parnate and, so, I do not feel uncomfortable doing it with Nardil.
Benadryl is a very (too weak to worry) weak serotonin reuptake inhibitor.
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