Posted by Zeba on June 5, 2008, at 21:15:09
In reply to Re: Restarting Parnate, posted by undopaminergic on June 5, 2008, at 13:54:34
I am doing better with the 30 mg. in the a.m. and 10 mg. around noon or 1 p.m. I am going to try a 2/20 split. If I take Parnate any later than around 3 p.m., then it affects my sleep. Otherwise, I have had no problems with insomnia. Was at the neuologist's today and bp was 140/97. I was uptight,though, and so later it went down. Taking the 40 mg. in the a.m. never caused me to develop hypertensive reaction. In fact my bp was lower. If I split the dose, I may need to take my bp med's earlier in the day rather than at bedtime. I did 40 mg. in a.m. for around a year, but I am also very careful about what I eat and drink, and only once did I develop hypertensive crisis, and that was many years ago in the 80's when I tried to kill myself on Parnate by taking a handful of Contac slow release capsules. I ended up on the Cardiac intensive Care unit of the hospital. It was horrible; I thought my head would explode. I never thought that I could make my heart explode too. Never again. I am extra careful now that I am older.
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