Posted by Chris O on July 26, 2011, at 13:59:04
In reply to Went off nardil 1 week ago. HR/BP problems persist, posted by mantus on July 26, 2011, at 12:48:33
I totally relate to you with respect to the "doctors not listening" thing. I have had so many varied and weird symptoms on my ten years of antidepressant experimentation that it is hard to remember all of them. I remember in the late 1990s there was even some denial by a psychiatrist of the sexual side effects I was experiencing. Whatever. Some of these guys just do not have the best empathy skills. It also angers me that we have to be the guinea pigs for all of these medications, as I feel that they are all hit and miss, and poorly understood by the scientific community.
At the same time, I am at least grateful that there is something out there to try for my unrelenting biologically-based anxiety disorder. But when the threat of "permanent" damage to the body comes in, that is a whole another issue. To say your symptoms are disturbing probably does not even begin to describe what you are going through. A pulse rate in the 130s, that is extremely uncomfortable. However, since you were on the medication 7 months, and you've only been off for 1 week, I think there is still hope. Isn't the recommendation 2 weeks off the Nardil before eating any tyramine containing food? If so, that means the medication is still acting your system. Perhaps 3 to 4 weeks (of sheer hell, I know) is a better gage of what's going on. Hang in there. I was just going to start Nardil myself, but decided to try Viibryd, the new SSRI medication first. Good luck and let's hope for the best!
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