Posted by SLS on August 3, 2012, at 5:56:24
In reply to another question SLS - sorry!!!!, posted by g_g_g_unit on August 1, 2012, at 8:25:57
No apologies necessary!
Trial-and-error. (How's that for being non-committal).
Marplan is a pretty mild drug with regard to side effects. For me, therapeutically, it felt very much like an intermediate between Parnate and Nardil. It didn't produce the stimulation of Parnate and didn't produce the initial euphoriant and weight-gain effects of Nardil. It was a "cleaner" antidepressant response. Of course, with me, this response didn't last very long - about three days.
You already take Klonopin, and will have a difficult time discontinuing it. The worst of withdrawal occurs at the end of the taper period, so it might not hurt to increase the dosage of Klonopin at this point. You will be no more dependent on it than you are already. It would just take a little longer to reach that critically lowest dosage before withdrawal symptoms are not easily avoided. As an aside, Trileptal (oxcarbazepine), an anticonvulsant, has been reported to greatly reduce the withdrawal effects from discontinuing benzodiazepines and alcohol.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18821451
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