Posted by okydoky on November 4, 2008, at 14:35:28
In reply to Re: What for opiate tolerance?, posted by JadeKelly on November 4, 2008, at 1:36:10
I have the antidote from the last time my retired pdoc tried Parnate with me in 2005. He got things confused and I find myself with Nifedipine 30mg extended release tablets. I do not know if I chew them if they would work like the gel caps ? I always used 10mg gel caps. I would prick it with a pin and squirt it under my tongue as instructed. It is a great piece of mind!
How much Parnate are you taking and at what intervals?
I never could sleep on it no matter how I took it. I forgot once again but someone on this site had a suggestion for this. Perhaps one of us could find it:-)I took Parnate for several years at 30mgs for quite some time before I needed to increase it. I had severe hypotention on both Parnate and Marplan. I used to pass out all the time. It was because of this that I was prescribed the Ritalin. (Not time released and it did nothing for me but made my mood fluctuate drastically) I arranged with a reputable pdoc (who was not treating me in "practice" ) to prescribe 20mg time release Ritalin and I had no further problems with hypotention or the mood swings. I had several spontaneous hypertensive episodes on Parnate and was in the ER so many times that my next pdoc prescribed the Procardia at my bidding.
After two or three years the Parnate started to pooped out. I used to go on holiday and go on Marplan, then on Moclobimide (which did not work so well) then back to Parnate. I soon was taking 60mg and more of Parnate along with Ritalin ,depakote,xanax,klonopin,.. I remember at the end I was taking many different medications each day. Some of them to potentiate the Parnate and some of them for all the side effects of so much Parnate. It along with Marplan were the only medications that ever truly worked for me for any length of time. Since I stopped the Parnate in 1995, at about he same time I was diagnosed with interstitial cystitis I have never regained any meaningful capacity to function.
The articles I had on my computer about Parnate with opiates: http://bja.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/95/4/434.pdf
http://www.psychotropical.com/8_st_maois_opiate_analgesics.shtml
There is an over the counter fix for the hypotention but I loath to print it as it is dangerous.
Let me know how you are doing,
oky
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