Posted by malcolm64 on May 11, 2007, at 19:12:14
In reply to Re: Parnate at 30 mgs - still nothing » Malcolm64, posted by Jedi on May 11, 2007, at 2:34:51
> > Well it's been close to two weeks since I started the Parnate and I'm up to 30 mgs and still...nothing. And no sleep problems either (not last night anyway).
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> Hi Malcolm,
> Two weeks is a very short time and 30mg is a ridiculously small dose if a person is treatment resistant. I see no reason to be on Parnate if you are not treatment resistant.
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> > I called my doc last night and he left me a message saying that he had actually been rather aggressive in terms of the dose I'm on, but is 30 mgs really an aggressive dose? I thought that I'd have to be in the 80-100 mg range.
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> Maybe your doc feels that 30mg is aggressive after only two weeks. Maybe he just plans to take you up slowly. I would ask him directly what his dosage plans are. If he is going to stop at 30mg, he is just wasting your time. I've been at 80mg for five weeks and I'm still not as well as on 90mg of Nardil. Of course, I'm in an experiment with a small sample size, n=1. My main side effect is still the daytime somnolence. I had to take a two hour nap to get through the day. If not for the weight gain side effect,I would be back on Nardil. Have you tried phenelzine? IMHO, when combined with clonazepam, it is the best for social anxiety.Yes, I was on Phenelzine (Nardil) about a year ago, had a fantastic reaction to it, but it pooped out after just 3 weeks. I don't remember augmenting it with Clonazepam (except possibly at night to help me sleep). The fantastic thing about Nardil when it first worked was that I could have cared less whether someone was friendly to me or blew me off - I was happy regardless. But now the slightlest rejection is painful.
I still don't understand how a mere medication could so completely wipe away feelings of shame and angst. Hell, when the Nardil first worked, I actually enrolled in a bartending class as a way to make some fast cash. Imagine me, as a bartender!!? I never would have thought in a million years that that was something I could actually do, but the Nardil caused such a miraculous transformation of my personality it was unbelieveable. Needless to say, I dropped out of the class when it became clear that the Nardil effects wouldn't last. And that ended my flirtation with bartending. Never again.
The one thing that continues to piss me off about my doc is that he NEVER told me that the euphoria wouldn't last. I'm still seeing him, b/c he and I have an established, caring relationship for many years, but it still pisses me off that he never told me. Which leads me to believe that he had no real experience with MAOI's to begin with.
And if he did, why the hell did he wait until I nearly died after OD'ing on 40 tricyclic tabs when there was a med (MAOI's) that had been available for decades before trying it with me. And I was the one who suggested it to him, not the other way around.
It's a still a sore subject with me.
Malcolm
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> > Of course, I won't know what he meant until I actually talk with him, but I'm getting awfully anxious, especially since I'm job hunting right now (and that alone can shoot someone's anxiety level sky high, especially someone with SA).
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> > Now I know that no one here knows me personally, but I'm just wondering if my frequent posts here are starting to come across as whining. Would you all let me know if does?
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> > Malcolm
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> Seems to me that you are just someone doing their best to find help. I don't think that anyone in this group would call that whining.
> Good Luck,
> Jedi
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