Posted by shasling on April 7, 2009, at 10:14:26
In reply to Augmenting Parnate w/ low dosage of Selegiline?, posted by cellomoi on April 5, 2009, at 20:14:56
> Currently taking 10mg of parnate QID, 75mg of cytomel QD, 10mg of abilify QD, 25mg trazodone QD and 0.5 mg of klonopin PRN. Diagnosed with BP II w/ rapid cycling.
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> Overall, I am happy with the combination of medications, except for the strength of the parnate. I feel it just is not strong enough to blast through my bipolar depression. A constant lingering lack of motivation remains.
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> My question is, what can be used to augment parnate? I have read on this forum, that ritalin, adderall, a TCA, and provigil can be used. But at what dosages? From where does one titrate upward from? Also, is it possible to combine selegiline with parnate?
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> Thank YouThere are abstracts where klonopin was used with both tcas and stimulants as well as wellbutrin.
I will say these are not your average augmets and they really require lots of work,meaning please play attention to your mood and keep a strong benzo handy,i personaly went pyshotic after the benifit of parnate plus ritalin,there was first a improve in mood,but parnate caused ritalin to accumlate faster and i ended up spending several hours on insginificant tasks which to me all seemed very important,the combo made any project i started to be very important regardless of how insignificant.
What would be a nice combo is if xyrem...GHB was legal again and added with a stimulant to parnate a three way PARNATE-GHB-STIM-OCCASIONAL BENZO combo.
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