Posted by Quintal on February 20, 2007, at 16:03:47
In reply to Re: Are MAOIs ever ineffective? » halcyondaze, posted by Chairman_MAO on February 20, 2007, at 14:32:24
>The 60mg/day maximum dose is a fiction. It's really around 120-200mg/day, and any competent psychiatrist knows this.
Oh how I wish I could convince my arrogant young pdoc of this. He steadfastly refuses to raise the dose above 30mg, and hoped I would be satisfied with 10mg as a maintenance dose after the first month. I found that I needed *at least* 80-120mg to achieve a good therapeutic response. I am 5'9 and around 140lb. I've had people tell me here that I risked killing or poisoning myself with such a dose. In fact the reverse was true - 30mg agitated my suicidal depression and I was only safe at the higher doses.
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