Posted by cybercafe on February 23, 2005, at 6:29:40
In reply to Re: MAOI and blood pressure, posted by Optimist on February 20, 2005, at 12:44:15
> > Good luck, Brian.
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> > I'd love to hear about your experiences on Parnate.
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> > I get the impression that for most people the side effects are generally not as bad as those of Nardil. Is that true?
> >
> > sabre
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> I've been on Parnate for 6 days now. 20mg the first, 40mg the next 4, then started at 60mg yesterday. Still zero side effects if that tells you anything. No insomnia, midafternoon tiredness, sexual dysfunction, hypotension what so ever. Usually when I start a new the drug the first week has pronounced side effects like Prozac, Lamictal, and Wellbutrin did. I had trouble sleeping the first week on wellbutrin and Prozac. Wellbutrin initially gave me headaches, nausea, and dizziness at first but quickly dissipated. So in the side effect category Parnate wins hands down. Seems promising so far.
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> Parnate is supposed to be much more mild with side effects opposed to Nardil. You don't hear nearly as many people going off Parnate due to side effects as you do Nardil. That almost always seems the case with Nardil. A lot of people can't tolerate it.
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> I'll write a more detailed description tomorrow on my progress as it will be a week. Don't want to jump the gun just quite yet. :)
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> p.s. The diet's a joke. No problems what so ever with it yet. I'm following the 1998 Sunnybrook recommendations. No aged cheese and meat, draft beer, and soy sauce.
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> Brian
yeah for some reason my doctor knew what foods i could get away with ... and even if i had bad foods (at 30 mg) he told me all i would ever feel is a bad headache... (for which he recommended clonazepam) ....never happened.. but up until recently all i risked was pizza and soy sauce .... i even (very cautiously, slowly and with an emergency pill on me) had about 2 pitchers of draft beer... (frat thing)...Diagnosis: i'm a retard who got lucky
p.s. - the fact that the beer interfered with my ability to metabolize parnate left me feeling so depressed for 3 or 4 days ? .. is enough for me to never touch alcohol again, no matter what the social consequences
(we're talking someone who was depressed for 7 years, and had their first 12+ months depression free)
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