Posted by LostBoyinNC45 on April 25, 2014, at 22:48:47
In reply to Post-Parnate washout period length?, posted by Snell on April 15, 2014, at 5:51:08
What do the sleep medicine doctors say about the napping? Thats classic EDS and sleep apnea symptoms. Not depression symptoms.
My experience has been real simple. If my sleep disordered breathing is not treated properly, nothing I do psychopharmacology wise works well. Its black and white like that for me and simple. My psychiatrist has a problem with that, my other doctors do not have a problem with it. In fact my primary care physician even suggested it to me and I told him, "man, that is exactly the way it is for me. Pull out that CPAP therapy and you could pump me up on all the psych meds from now to doomsday and Im STILL "depressed." Stick my CPAP therapy back in the equation and "boom" Im doing OK all of a sudden.
Any chance you have sleep disordered breathing underneath your depression? 60 mg of Parnate is A LOT of Parnate. The most I could tolerate was the standard dosage of 30 mg and that was plenty and perfect, anymore and it was overstimulating and I'd get the insomnia. 60 mg Parnate is A LOT of MAOI, way more than I could ever tolerate. I'd be awake most of the time if I took 60 mg Parnate.
Are your sleep medicine docs intimidated by your psychiatrist, by any chance? Sometimes sleep medicine docs dont want to get involved if they believe your depression is real severe, they dont want to encroach onto the psychiatrist's territory, especially if you went to the sleep doc with a "history" of psych problems first.
Eric
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> A request: I'm sleep-deprived and irritable and don't think I could handle replies that are overly pedantic or patronizing. Thanks.
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