Posted by Terry8 on June 20, 2011, at 10:08:21
In reply to Re: MAOI Trial, posted by Lamdage on June 20, 2011, at 9:38:07
> 5!! weeks.. Sorry about this man. I suspect they designed it that way to keep more folks on the big business, prozac. 5 weeks is a anxiety provoking period of time.
>Ha, sounds like a good strategy -- we'll keep them on it by mandating a scarily-long washout period.
No, it's just that Prozac has a very long half-life, and its metabolite norfluxetine takes even longer to be eliminated. Norfluxetine's half-life is 9 days, so it takes around 36-45 days (4-5 half-lives) to get out of your system enough to be safe to start the MAOI... five weeks.
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