Posted by JayDee on October 6, 2004, at 15:38:57
In reply to Parnate / bipolarity » SLS, posted by Ame Sans Vie on October 6, 2004, at 15:16:09
> No, that's one of five *approved* antidepressants I haven't tried (tranylcypromine, isocarboxazid, amoxapine, trimipramine, duloxetine)... six if you count that I've never given a therapeutic dose of trazodone a try. I've been curious about Parnate, and it was actually next on my list were Eldepryl to fail, but I just couldn't bear the thought of parting with my Adderall that helps so much. Though my doctors wouldn't mind a cautious implementation of a psychostimulant and non-selective MAO inhibitor concurrently, Medicaid would never allow me to fill the prescriptions. It was a battle to get them to cover Eldepryl while it was on file that I also took amphetamines. I had to print out a good thirty pages of information on the safety of judicious use of MAO inhibitors with amphetamines, bring them into Walgreens, and basically argue my way with the pharmacist for a good thirty minutes into getting the Eldepryl which it was, "against [his] better judgment to do." He finally did after I showed him an abstract that asserted methamphetamine, when administered along with selegiline, had fewer cardiac effects than when dosed alone. Oh well... at least it means the pharmacy's actually on its toes, lol.I wonder if the Pharmacist even realized that methamphetamine and amphetamine are actually both METABOLTIES of selegiline. To say adding more stimulants to it would be so dangerous would kinda be oxymoron... Congrats on beating him at wits! ;)
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