Posted by stargazer on December 10, 2006, at 15:23:12
In reply to Why Are People Suddenly Getting Silly With MAOIs?, posted by dbc on December 8, 2006, at 23:04:14
I'm feeling like when I read some of the posts, there are alot of mixing of medications and taking meds when side effects and medical conditions would make treatment with many medications contrainidcated.
Like taking many meds I was told are contrainidcated with Maos's...
Like SE's of peripheral edema, which is an indication of congestive heart failure and can lead to heart attacks....
Like, many other things I am reading today here.
Has all caution been thrown to the wind?
I understand that docs (?) have approved some of these combinations... but there are always docs who will prescribe things that are not optimal treatments...medical malpractice is still alive and well...
I am not comfortable with some of the combinations being prescribed. You can't tell what's causing what side effects as you combine more and more drugs that are obviously interacting with one another.
Then when I read about heart attacks when the biggest side effect with the MAo's is hypertension, I almost have a heart attack.
It seems as though concerns expressed for others when things like this are pointed out are ignored or minimized. It gets really hard trying to be supportive when there seems to be no precautions being taken and it's hard to tell who's dropping the ball, the docs or the patients.
I certainly would never take some of those risks myself and it's not because I am not really depressed or I'm not as depressed as others. That's not the argument.
I am just too afraid of causing more problems for myself than depression, which is bad enough.
I am afraid of what these drugs are doing to many of you who are ignoring the risks of taking these drugs.I am on EMsam now and I have taken Nardil, Parnate and Marplan and I religiously followed the dietary and drug restrictions given to me. When I asked my pdoc about some of the things that others are doing today, based on what I have read here, he is amazed with the current cavalier attitude which now exists.
I believe that taking these risks now will ultimately cause more harm than good in the long run.
AD's are usually used as temporary fixes, but heart attacks and liver failure are life sentences.
You be the judge but do your research and get a second opinion if your treatment is leading you to have more and more side effects. Not all docs are as careful as others.
SG
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