Posted by Tomatheus on April 30, 2013, at 14:58:36
In reply to Re: Anything comparable to Nardil out there? » Tomatheus, posted by Bob on April 30, 2013, at 12:55:43
Hi Bob,
See below for my responses to your questions...
> Why did you only take the Nardil/Doxylamine combo for one year if it worked so well?
Well, I actually stayed on the combo for less than a year. It was probably more like six months altogether, if you count all the time that I spent taking film-coated Nardil and the Nardil that I took in the enteric capsules. The reason why I stopped taking Nardil with doxylamine was that even though I had been putting my Nardil into enteric capsules, I reached a point where I noticed a sudden loss of effectiveness combined with extreme agitation in June 2006. I was taking Pfizer's U.S. Nardil at the time and putting the contents of my tablets into enteric capsules, and I suspect that a bad batch of Nardil is what caused the sudden change in the way I responded to the medication. Several Nardil users who used to post on the Anxiety Community's Nardil forum reported receiving bad batches of the medication around that time, although I don't think that anyone on this board other than myself has written about getting bad batches of Nardil. I do recall that the Nardil that I was taking crushed up differently around the time it stopped working for me (I crushed up each Nardil tablet before putting the contents of the tablets into enteric capsules when I used the enteric capsules).
> Did the Doxylamine have a problematic side effect profile for you?
No. I actually don't recall experiencing any side effects that I could attribute to the doxylamine. I originally took the doxylamine hoping that it would help me fall asleep early each night. At one point, I tried discontinuing the doxylamine, and the next day, all of my symptoms (the low energy, slow thinking, hypersomnia, and difficulty concentrating) were back in full force. From that point until the time I stopped my Nardil, I kept taking the doxylamine, because it seemed like it might have been necessary to keep my response going.
T.
Conditions: schizoaffective disorder & probable idiopathic hypersomnia
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