Posted by bleauberry on December 31, 2009, at 10:44:58
In reply to Parnate Update - I feel awful!!, posted by ColoradoSnowflake on December 31, 2009, at 0:12:42
I forgot, why did you have to go down from 80mg? Could you not stay at 80mg? I don't know enough about your situation, but it just seems logical to go back to 80mg and deal with whatever it was that made the decision to go down in dose. If it was a doc, get another doc. If it was a side effect, keep exploring ways to counter it.
I've tried parnate 3 times at miniscule doses...2.5mg once every other day. I could already feel it working by the end of day 2, day 3 for sure. I am sensitive. Anyway, these were not bonafide efforts to get on the drug, merely tests to see if I could even consider it. So many meds I just cannot take due to bizarre complications, usually a deep worsening of depression. Parnate didn't do that except for the first 4 hours after dosing.
What I'm getting at is this. Even in such a tiny dose and for such a short time (never on it more than 5 days), I got pretty much the same withdrawal bizarreness you are experiencing. The itching was insane. I couldn't figure that out. I could tell when the MAO enzymes were making a comeback as the previous dose from a few days wore off, because the itching, intense anxiety, sinking darkness, pains, all the stuff you mentioned, came on fairly strong.
So I can only imagine how intense your reactions are, with a 20mg difference and being on it longer.
I can't help but wonder when I see such bizarre stuff going on...especially the arthritis stuff...if there isn't something else going on that you are not aware of. I won't go into anything specifically because people here get sick of me talking about it, but it deserves mention that when bizarre things happen on meds (above and beyond normal expected side effects or withdrawals) and when arthritis flare ups exist, that is a fairly loud horn announcing there is more to the story than you know. With respect to the phrase mileage varies, sometimes things stand out as being a bit more profound than simply that.
I'm sure SLS thoughts on being stuck in the middle, added to withdrawal, make a ton of sense too. I just can't help wondering if it isn't one of the above, but rather all of the above.
I sure wish you could get away from the 60mg dose. Doesn't sound like a safe place to be.
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