Posted by softheprairie on November 25, 2008, at 17:28:43
In reply to Re: Parnate vs. desipramine » softheprairie, posted by Quintal on November 25, 2008, at 4:06:50
> Thanks softheprarie. I had tachycardia and other heart problems years ago on dothiepin. I was hoping desipramine would be milder. Really it will have to be lofepramine because desipramine isn't available in my country. It is noted as having fewer cardiac side effects than other TCAs, but I don't know if it compares exactly to desipramine.
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> Does it disturb your sleep? I have problems concentrating and thought it might help, having been used in ADHD etc. What do you think?
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> Q
I have sleep issues (including sleep apnea, for which I always use a C-PAP machine when I sleep, and some other problems), but I don't know that there's been a difference in them since taking desipramine. Attention-wise, I don't think I've noticed a difference, either. One problem with the desipramine is that I can't take stimulants with it, the mix makes my heart go nuts and I had some foul incidents. Sadly, I was in a car wreck (not on a stimulant) a month ago that was my fault, I was being inattentive, and I did wonder if I would have been on a stimulant would it have not happened? But, really, I don't think I recall getting improved attention out of the various ADD stimulants I've tried. It was medically made more justifiable for me to get them because I do have attention trouble, but I still wanted them even without the attention help, desiring mood and energy boost and a hope for perhaps a few pounds of easy weight loss (I am morbidly obese).
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