Posted by g_g_g_unit on July 26, 2011, at 8:14:47
In reply to Re: Giving up on Parnate: what's next before ECT?, posted by JONO_IN_ADELAIDE on July 25, 2011, at 0:21:34
Are you in Adelaide, Australia? I lived in New Zealand for a while, where the prescribed ceiling dose for Parnate was 30mg, which seemed unusually low in comparison to the US. I was just wondering if the same thing applied here (I'm currently in Melbourne) ..
> I guess you *could* go to a walkin clinic and get a script for nortriptyline, I'm pretty sure you'd get one fairly easily, it isnt a drug of abuse or anything.
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> The usual way of taking it with Parnate is to stop the parnate, and wait a week, then start taking Parnate 10mg and Nortriptyline 25mg, and slowly incrase to nortriptyline 100mg per day and Parnate xxxmg/day over a couple of weeks.
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> I'm nor advising you to do this, or saying it would be wise, just pointing out a slightly dishonest option
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