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Posted by David Hanifin on October 22, 2013, at 9:44:50
I've now been on parnate all up for 6 weeks and 3 days. My dosage was 10mg one day, 20mg 19 days, 30mg 26 days. I'm taking parnate for anxiety with depression and PTSD. I'm finding the last week I've been experiencing a sense of unease, tension and worry fuelled wth light depression with transient suicide idealation. In a week's time I have another psychiatrist appointment. If this continues In going to ask if my dosage can be lowered back down to 20mg. I have had positive effects on this medication but I have found if anxiety is a major symptom than too high of a dosage maybe counter productive and may even have a reverse effect. If this still fails I will consider trialling Nardil. I'm finding the nor adrenaline effects can be counter productive if they are too strong.
Posted by SLS on October 22, 2013, at 11:36:50
In reply to Is Too much Parnate Counterproductive??, posted by David Hanifin on October 22, 2013, at 9:46:35
> I've now been on parnate all up for 6 weeks and 3 days. My dosage was 10mg one day, 20mg 19 days, 30mg 26 days. I'm taking parnate for anxiety with depression and PTSD. I'm finding the last week I've been experiencing a sense of unease, tension and worry fuelled wth light depression with transient suicide idealation. In a week's time I have another psychiatrist appointment. If this continues In going to ask if my dosage can be lowered back down to 20mg. I have had positive effects on this medication but I have found if anxiety is a major symptom than too high of a dosage maybe counter productive and may even have a reverse effect. If this still fails I will consider trialling Nardil. I'm finding the nor adrenaline effects can be counter productive if they are too strong.
For depression and anxiety disorders, Parnate does not work its magic until you reach a minimum dosage of 40 mg/day. I don't know to what extent Parnate is affecting you adversely. I'm afraid you are going to be relegated to trial and error.
Nardil is a good choice if Parnate doesn't work out.
For the PTSD component of your illnesses, you might want to look into adding prazosin. I take 25 mg/day.
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