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Re: Parnate not working this time. Add provigil?

Posted by willyee on July 12, 2006, at 1:05:42

In reply to Parnate not working this time. Add provigil?, posted by kimcrazylady on July 10, 2006, at 17:40:44

> My drug has always been Parnate. Even when I've gone off it, it always worked again when I went back on. This time, however, it's just not cutting it. I'm on 60mg/day and my pdoc is bumping me to 70 then 80, although my insurance only pays for 60. I may go broke, but it's worth it if it works.
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> Last fall when I was off Parnate, I tried Provigil and Effexor XR, but got muscle twitches. My pdoc assumed they were from Provigil and took me off after three days. They were the best three days of my life. I got more housework done in those three days than I had in the previous year! The twitches DID NOT go away, but the neurologist could not find anything wrong. I went back on Parnate and now no more twitches! Thing is, I was off Parnate for several months before the twitching began. Anyway, I asked pdoc to add provigil to my parnate since I know some people are doing it, but he won't.
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> Is anyone out there combining the two? I've found case studies and some posts, but my pdoc doesn't want to take the chance. He's contacted the manufacturer and they won't say one way or another. At least he's trying for me!
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> What else could I add to Parnate to help my sluggishness and lack of motivation? I am very atypical and TR.
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> Thanks in advance...
>
> Kim


I added provigil and spent a fortune doing it,unfortunatly for me,all i got was behind the scenes stimulation,meaning no benifit just the negatives which were really only a lessened AD effect from parnate,and worsened insomnia.

I feel ur struggle,i cant do ssris,i get worse and dont even stay at a mid point,tcas did nothing,and nardil i cant tolerate.

Ive thought a million times over and cant come up with a single option other than continuing this relentless for me hopeless pursuit of finding a augment for it.I am on 80 mg a day,going back down from it as it did not help to go up from 60 to 80,so i figure why take more drug that dont work,might as well start to get used to the idea of comming off wich scares the hell out of me.


I never experianced the drug having such strong sedation qualites,ok maybe the stimulant ones died down,but in the past years it never made me so weak and tired as it does now,its like they also made some significant change we dont know about.


Anyway before u start provigil,u may want to consider simple caffiene tabs,usualy at ur local 7 11,pure caffiene is the only ingredient,about 200 mg,and form me it worked at the start,now i still get tired i just became immune to the caffiene.

But i did get useful months out of it,times when i was working long hrs around xmas,so im glad i did try it.Much cheaper and easier to try then provigil,i personaly found it actualy worth more of the trial,anyway good luck i feel ya dilema.


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