Posted by cassandracomplex on June 25, 2013, at 18:26:06
In reply to Parnate: hungover from oversleeping?, posted by vanvog on June 19, 2013, at 10:54:41
I have idiopathic hypersomnia (diagnosis made while off medication). It is worsened SO much by Parnate. Parnate takes normal sleep and throws it out the window.
18 hours of sleep, inability to awaken in the morning, "sleep inertia" and "sleep drunkenness" ... Yep. I do experience a worsening of my condition with Parnate, but I've never known anyone else who developed it as a side effect without already being diagnosed with idiopathic hypersomnia or narcolepsy.
This is where psychostimulant augmentation comes in. I've been on combinations of very high dose Parnate and pretty high doses of Adderall/Dexedrine/Adderall XR/Dexedrine Spansules. The unfortunate thing is that wakefulness is just a "side effect" of stimulants so you become tolerant to it, which is why I am now using them on a PRN basis (I posted about this below).
Talk to a MAOI-friendly doc about stimulant augmentation - or perhaps first have a sleep study and see what's going on. There may be a better way to treat it if it really is drug-induced.
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