Posted by Chairman_MAO on October 13, 2011, at 11:43:44
In reply to Re: nardil physical symptoms, posted by ger man on October 13, 2011, at 9:36:35
I didn't even start at 45mg. My doctor started me immediately at 60mg. That was a modest improvement, so then we did 75mg for a month; during that month it really started to kick in. Raised to 90 not long after that, where I stayed for a long time until eventually going up to 120. I was at 120 until a few months before I went off of it, when I went back to 90.
NOTE: When I was at 120mg/day, I was also taking 60mg/day of dextroamphetamine. I think there was a synergistic effect at that high dose.
Everyone is different. You can draw blood and monitor platelet MAO-B. I brought that up with my pdoc last night, and he told me that with MAOIs, you dose based upon clinical response and that there isn't much utility in even bothering to draw blood for that because it doesn't tell you much. That is, the test isn't going to tell you much that simply raising the dose more won't tell you, and you can keep raising the dose with those unless you encounter untoward side effects.
I know that's more than you asked, but the gist of it is that yeah, it was somewhat effective (at 60mg), but 60mg was nothing like one or two tablets more.
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