Posted by jedi on July 16, 2011, at 17:00:03
In reply to Re: specifics, posted by mantus on July 15, 2011, at 23:47:09
Hi Mantus,
I have been taking Nardil long term (12 years) at dosages between 60 and 90mg. When my depression and anxiety gets a little worse, I will raise the dosage by 15mg. My MD always writes the script for 90mg and 60mg is usually enough for me. I would never stop long term use of Nardil cold turkey; unless some emergency required it. Maybe your PDOC is thinking that even after a sudden 2 week washout, you will still have a degree of MAO inhibition, that could keep you from crashing. Not sure on that one. In the past, when I've discontinued for other med trials, I have tapered slowly.I've never had your problem with the heartbeat, we are all so different. My BP runs borderline high, and Nardil actually lowers it about 20 points. Has kept me off the BP meds, while everybody else-in my extended family, is on them.
I have the memory problems too, which I blame on long term use of clonazepam. I've tapered this down from 2mg to .5mg on the way to zero. I would be nice not to have to use Google for my BRAIN!
Most of my Nardil side effects have greatly reduced with time. I am having some problem with motivation, that I didn't have before. I think this is mainly a learned response from fighting depression for so long. Before my first major depression hit, I owned and managed a data networking company and owned and managed 50 residential rental homes. Then again, I was highly anxious all the time. Not sure I would go back to that, even if I could. I think, in my case, the anxiety was a primary motivator.
Sorry, not too specific to your questions. Just rattling on with my Nardil experience.
Good Luck Mantus,
Jedi
> Well, I guess the best way to put it is when I stand up my body feels completely different than when I am sitting or resting. When I stand it just automatically jumps to anywhere between 100-120 for absolutely no reason. Actually, if I just stand in one place it tends to be even a little higher than if I'm walking. My normal hr is at least 30-50 bpm less than that while standing previously to this medicine. Some days the symptoms I feel are worse than other days, but again I can feel dizzy, have brain fog, memory problems (could be more due to ativan, I don't know), random aches and pains all over my body, very sluggish and weak legs, inablity to exert myself (running/working out), concentration greatly on this problem which makes evaluating my main issues anxiety with secondary depression very hard to do because my body feels so wrong when I'm standing. I have a doctor's appointment on monday, and will probably talke about florinef or a beta blocker. But if something doesn't "substantially" improve this situation, I will probably discontinue the nardil and try viibryd. I having been dealing with this for about 7 months with absolutely no improvement, I just want to feel normal physically again. I'm just scared of what going off of the nardil might do to my original anxiety/depression. Another question I had is about discontinuing Nardil. My p-doc really like nardil and has prescribed it about as much as anyone else in his career. He said I should just completely stop it at once, then wait the 2 weeks for viibryd. He acts like suddenly stopping wouldn't hurt me, but I never hear that about in psychotropic meds. What do you think?
Jedi
Treatment resistant, atypical, double depression with social anxiety.
Nardil + clonazepam
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