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Re: Taking selegiline for a long time questions » world citizen

Posted by KaraS on February 12, 2005, at 20:41:05

In reply to Re: Taking selegiline for a long time questions, posted by world citizen on February 12, 2005, at 19:15:49

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> I'm curious as to what other medications, if any, your friend was taking when she had her hypertensive crisis. I'm exremely sensitive to chemicals in general and I've not had any problems at all with Seleginine. Once I was taking Flexeril (in the drug family of tricyclics) and starting taking St. John's Wort (is suspected of having MAO(a)I properties) and had myself a homegrown hypertensive crisis. This is to say that it may not have been selegiline alone that caused the crisis, which is why in my previous post I indicated that one has to be EXCEDINGLY cautious when taking other drugs with this. Don't trust your MD exclusively, ASK YOUR PHARMACIST!!!
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> world citizen
> > The tyramine problem with selegiline generally comes when you go over 10 mg. My friend had a hypertensive crisis on 15 mg. (YMMV - some people may need to be careful at even lower dosages.)
> >

My friend was taking a couple of other drugs for Parkinson's disease. However, I've read in several places that 10 mg. is the standard cutoff number for selegiline - so I think she would have had a crisis whether or not she was taking anything else.


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