Posted by Enigma on October 5, 2010, at 20:25:59
In reply to Re: Nardil side effects ever go away?? » Enigma, posted by Maxime on October 5, 2010, at 19:43:21
> I am on Parnate and I have the same side effect ... overheating. It's really hard to handle in the summer. It has yet to go away for me and I think it's here to stay. :-( When I was on Parnate from 2002-2004 I had the same problem.
In one vein I just don't feel like I can exist in "this condition" for any significant length of time.. like say, another month, meaning, not the sweating, but the severe depression, or even 2 more weeks. So then I think, who cares about this side-effect..
Then I think, what if I make it until my DBS study, and they accept me, and it actually works? Then how am I going to live with it?
1) If I drink a cup of coffee, in cold weather or not, I overheat and sweat.
2) If I cover up "too much" (whatever that means), at night, (because I'm cold, so I cover up, of course), I overheat later on and soak my clothes..and the bed.. Which, is horrible in the fall and winter, as then I then freeze, later, and the sweat becomes a blanket of cold water on me, and I end up catching a cold or the flu. I got up twice last night and had to change my t-shirt, and pj top, and the room temp is 68 degrees, 0% humidity. Many nights are like this for me. This hasn't changed in the 1.5 years I've been on Nardil (that's my last run - I've been on it twice before, and always end up quitting due to the side effects)..
3) I can't go outside and do *anything* if it's humid, besides swim, of course.
4) I can't go to a hot climate, at all.. no vacations in Bermuda, Florida, etc, etc, etc. I wouldn't be able to tolerate it at all. If it's dry heat, I can survive, a bit, outside, but not for long. Any humidity, and I'm sweating off shirt after shirt. Almost my entire body sweats. Mostly my upper body though.
5) I need fans or A/C on all the time, or I overheat, in the summertime.No doctor I've ever been to has even heard of this side effect. That's how Brilliant they are in New Hampshire.
That's enough steps.. I'm on Selegeline now, full dose, and it's not doing a damn thing for my depression, but since my depression is more environmental now, and I'm not sure to what degree it is "chemically" (like being depressed for no reason at all - life is perfect, but still miserable).. So the drugs, I can't imagine, are not going to do me any good.
I'm NEVER going back on Nardil. I see my shrink tomorrow, finally, after a month of suicidal hell... of course I'm not going to tell him that, or anyone else that can put me into a hospital against my will. *here I go on a tangent*
I will NEVER go back there. I'd rather be in prison. At least in prison, there won't be a camera on me 24/7, which to me, and I don't care if I'm suicidal or not.. I'm not going to kill myself IN a hospital...It's an invasion of privacy thing with me, and it would not surprised me at all, that they have hidden camera's in the showers too. Of course, I'm sure that's a very closely guarded secret. I don't even care if it was illegal, I'm sure if you were suicidal, they could get away with it somehow. I trust no one. I'd go on about why being locked down in a psych ward is HELL (for me), but some people don't seem to mind it. I do. Being treated like baby, or a retard, offends the living shit out of me. At dinner, the patients were talking about how they cut themselves, etc, and they were monitoring our conversation, and a nurse came in and said we can't talk about that. Uhm, F.U., I'm a grown adult, depressed, but still a grown adult, I'll talk about whatever the HELL I want to talk about, thank you very much. Also, it didn't help me, either time I was there. Not one bit. It did more damage. I cannot tolerate losing my "freedom", in any form.No way. I'll never go back there. I was only there for 3 days..and I was dying, (no pun intended) to get out. My PCP today "threatened" to call an ambulance on me, so I lied, of course, and said I'm not suicidal. I'm not stupid. If he did it anyway, well, he'd then be taking his life into, well, my hands. I'd sooner kill him, then kill myself, before I go back there. Yeah, you read that right. If anyone tried to send me back there, they are going to get hurt. Let's just leave it at that.
Selly seems to have the same side-effect, but even if I wasn't on it, I believe I'd still be overheating, and I've been off Nardil for, I dunno.. 2 months, almost? Maybe 1.5.. Hard to say. Time moves at a snails pace for me. No job, no interests in anything. No friends, no girlfriend, no chance of getting either. I gave up on that. I talk to TWO people on the planet, via email, that's it. No family, nothing. Why am I still typing again? You've all heard this before from me..
Gotta go..
(not really)
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