Posted by harryp on May 31, 2004, at 0:45:24
In reply to Knowledgeable brothers and sisters in Nardil..., posted by Questionmark on May 29, 2004, at 3:48:19
My suspicion is that MAO is restored much faster in the brain than in the gut. I have seen some charts in a psychpharm book (not sure if these are accurate) that indicate that one has to go to 90 mg. of Nardil to approach 100% inhibition of MAO in the brain.
The "maintainance dose" issue (for me) is just a matter of using the minimum amount of drug to get the effect you need. If you lower the dose and your depression gets worse, you should go back to the dose that was working.
As my life has improved (lots of sun helps too!), I've found that I could reduce my Parnate dose from a high of 50mg to a present 30mg. This has dramatically improved my sex drive. If I start to get consistently more depressed, I'll just up the dose again.
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