Posted by FredPotter on April 29, 2007, at 19:33:33
In reply to Re: Trying again to clarify what I said » jealibeanz, posted by Phillipa on April 28, 2007, at 22:21:03
And yet I hear stories about ramping up the dose until side effects appear. That way you know it's working. Or that way you know you're absorbing it. They used to use this method with haloperidol and psychotic patients. Ramp up the dose until the poor sods can't keep still due to akathisia. I hope they don't still do this.
I'm now on max dose (90mg) of Nardil and while I feel much less anxious, almost content, I'm fat, can't stay awake for long and my head swims whenever I move (low BP). I even feel quite blissful. I hope that's not a side effect that my body will adapt to. Another thing - how does my body know which is the intended effect (AD effect) and which is a side effect. (Ah! That's only a side effect I'll make that go away - or that's the AD effect - I'll keep that one). Perhaps it doesn't know the difference and this is why ADs poop out.
Anyway, I suppose I could have reached the effective dose much more gradually. Perhaps now I'm taking too much. The nice thing is - so I've read - that when you reach the effective dose of Nardil, you've destroyed all your MAO, well most of it. You can then drop down to a low maintenance dose as it takes 6-7 months (or was it weeks?) for the body to make new MAO
Fred
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