Posted by ravenstorm on October 28, 2004, at 23:24:57
In reply to Re: MAOIs and anxiety, confusing! my life an apology » ravenstorm, posted by King Vultan on October 28, 2004, at 22:05:32
Thanks Todd--
I would prefer to try parnate just because of the better side effect profile, but who knows if my pdoc will go for that. My blood pressure is definitely at the lower side of normal, so I have visions of myself doing permanent face plants into the carpet on Nardil.
At the moment, I'm just trying to come down from the WB!
As far as NE, definitely no good with the WB and get edginess even from the remeron. As for nortriptyline, I was only on it a few days because my heart literally felt like it was beating out of my chest for hours after I took even a small dose. So, I don't really know how that one would have effected me at higher doses.
Kind of freaked at how harsh the discontinuation is. If I got this screwed up coming off paxil wayyyyy slowly what the heck would happen to me if parnate or nardil didn't work? By the way, how much of a washout do you have to leave between MAOIs?
As far as constipation. I seem to get the opposite (EXCEPT on paxil). But that is from the SSRIs, and maybe that would have passed if I could have gotten through the start ups of celexa and lexapro.
Thanks again for your information. It has helped a lot reading your past posts as you have tried both nardil and parnate. You seem to have responded pretty well to both. (Oh, I can't remember--did you have sexual side effects on nardil?) I've heard some people only respond to one and not the other. Wierd. Sometimes I think this stuff is all chemical voodoo!
Do you think you'll try the patch when it comes out? or are you pretty happy on the parnate?
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