Posted by gardenergirl on June 28, 2004, at 15:34:03
In reply to Re: Personal MAOI diet experience: update on cheese! » gardenergirl, posted by maddog on June 27, 2004, at 18:50:37
> Hi GG,
>
> Sorry to hijack your thread but I have just washed out from Paxil and I am about to begin Nardil. I suffer from anxiety including social anxiety.No problem about hijacking. I just wanted to celebrate a bit. My diagnosis is atypical depression. So your mileage may vary, as it were.
> I am wondering how your experience on Nardil is developing? How long have you been on N and has it helped your symptoms, etc.
I started on 45 mg of Nardil back in Sept. 03 (roughly, I'm not so good with dates). When I first took it, the thing I noticed the most were that I was no longer sleeping all day long, and thus missing class or work. Also I felt much more confident, suggesting that my depression has an underlying anxious component of which I was not aware. My goofy side came back out, and friends and family said I seemed like the old GG again. That was nice to hear.
Eventually, the not sleeping all day long shifted to insomnia (early awakening) and the confidence which had an *almost* euporhic flavor, shifted to plain old not feeling depressed.
I went through a period of increased depression around the holidays, so I increased my dose to 60 mg. For a time, that seemed to make me feel worse. I may have been more depressed because I was on vacation, and thus missed three or so weeks of therapy, which might have contributed. I went back down to 45 mg, and felt worse again, and was involved in a great deal of school/work stress, so I am back to 60 mg now which seems to be keeping me stable as far as depressive symptoms, considering there's been a huge increase in external stress.
I doubt I would go any higher, out of a fear about side effects. They are quite tolerable to me at 60 (mostly hyperreflexia, which doesn't bother me at all, but also urinary retention and accompanying edema, which I would not want to get any worse.) Others, though have gone much higher and seem to tolerate any SE's they have.
Good luck to you. I really believe Nardil is *the* drug for my atypical depression. And I have read and heard about its great effect on social phobia and anxiety.
Take care,
gg
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> Thanks!!
> maddog
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> > Hi folks.
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> > I just wanted to report that I finally got up the nerve to try two things that research or others' experience has reported as relatively safe due to low tyramine contents: yogurt and Kraft parmesan cheese. Others have reported here eating these safely, but I just now tried.
> >
> > The yogurt was very fresh, at least a month away from the expiration date. And the parmesan cheese was Kraft canned stuff---awful if you are used to fresh grated, but still, better than none. Please note, I used less than a tablespoon of the Kraft.
> >
> > Anyway, no reaction, no change in my blood pressure at all. Of course your mileage may vary, so think carefully if you decide to try forbidden fruits.
> >
> > but yeah! 'specially about the yogurt.
> >
> > gg
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