Posted by yxibow on April 7, 2006, at 2:13:55
In reply to Re: Depression Can Be Fatal!, posted by JaclinHyde on April 6, 2006, at 22:09:08
> <<I mean, surviving spring allergies with OTC medication or taking cough syrup or lots of things can mean death to people who really don't actually want that in the end.>>
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> Touching on allergies clariton & zyrtec are fine with MAOI's. And....But not clorpheneramine maleate, benadryl, I'm not sure of various antihistamines like meclizine for anti-emesis. Yes, pseudoephedrine hydrochloride is not the most effective thing on this planet but it at least for me clears my head on a really stuffy day (and then I have to take extra anxiety medicine usually, depends. I don't touch the 12/24 hour stuff, because that means you have to wait 12/24 hours if it messes with your body.)
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> "Cough medications containing decongestants, dextromethorphan or Demerol are not to be taken but plain **plain Robitussin is OK**"Plain Robitussin is guaifenesin, which really isnt all that great a medication except as an expectorant in combination with a cough suppressant. Dextromethorphan is really the only effective thing here in the US, since we can't go and get a little bit of codeine like in Canada (unless the changed that.) Of course that is also contraindicated.
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> The list really isn't all that extensive when you really read it. Aged cheeses, Demerol, aged meats and sour cream are the biggest culprits. What makes it look long are the 'goofy' foods (or at least in my life they seem odd)...cavier, liver pate, pickled herring, over rip banannas and avocados, tofu, miso, saurkraut, marmite, bovril....
Well I'm a vegetarian ... so a MAOI would be out, since it includes most soy products. Brewers yeast is added to vegetarian products because it is rich with vitamins and has some protein. I eat bananas at all stages -- avoiding a banana because its one day too old and having a hypertensive crisis --- good lord. They're not goofy, they supply a day's worth of potassium to your diet. And well, I'm a Californian so I'm brought up on avocados. That means no trips to Taco Bell or whatever chain in your state has it since trace amounts could show up.
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> And damn, I can't have any cocaine...grrrrrrrrr ;-)
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> I am not saying that no one eats this stuff, I am just saying that the foods are not all that hard to control if take an MAOI. I have lived without these foods or drugs for over 25 years, been sedated for surgery etc. and I wouldn't trade any of those years for all the cheddar cheese in the world.Well I wish you the best on it.
TidingsJay
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