Posted by tessellated on January 5, 2007, at 15:59:40
In reply to Re: Are MAOIs worth it? » Karen44, posted by Quintal on January 4, 2007, at 0:45:27
-people have posted here to say they have tested positive for amphetamines while taking Parnate.
i was one of those peeps.
david pearce puts it pretty well on the biopsychiatry.com site. i would say the non-selective MAOI's are not for the mild dysphoria. not because of SE's, but because of the profound alteration of one's chemistry.
to me nothing ever has quite felt like a lock and key solution.
they were as close to a near reversal of depression as anything i've experienced.only they metabolise strangely. working on cytokines as well, so both dosing schedule and amount are tricky. if there was a parnate SR or something i'd go back. i also suffered from either fatigue or borderline manic insomnia, with great moments tween. 100mg parnate and up turned me into something of a kinder gentler version of a dr.jeckyl. fun. but a little wild.
I had an amazing psychopharmacologist who categorized parnate and provigil as "smart drugs", and i agree. they are options to try prior to more potent stims and vastly less problematic.
Achieving a sustainable "golden mean" is a problem in general, but i think i've had the longest glimpses of it with MAOI's.
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