Posted by Vincent_QC on December 30, 2008, at 9:19:04
In reply to Re: Parnate/40mg experience JadeKelly/Scoot... » Vincent_QC, posted by Maxime on December 29, 2008, at 12:09:20
> Hi there. That was quite the experience you had with Parnate. I hope you start to feel much better soon.
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> I had a similar experience with Parnate. I used to take from 90 mg to 110 mg for almost 2 years. Then I stopped taking it because it was wasn't work any more. When I tried it again, I could never get past 10 mg and had the same symptoms as you. The sensitivity to light and the headache were the worst pains I had ever felt. I was never able to get past the 10 mg so I had to abandon my attempt to try Parnate again.
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> I really hope you can increase up to 40 mg in a couple of weeks without any side effects.
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> Take care of yourself.
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> MaximeHi Maxime,
Humm well, thanks for your support. It's seem to get more normal now, I was able to take 35mg yesterday but I had a little bit of orthostatic hypotension and a big migraine at night...So I kept monitoring my BP and it do the same thing than the night before, hypertension after 1 hour of the last dose I take, and low BP at night. Before I got to the bed, I take a 0.1mg pill of Florinef to help with orthostatic hypotension and take a lot of salt...and leave a glass of water with the salt near my bed...lol Just in case... I know that I wake up 1 time to go to the bathroom and I didn't have orthostatic hypotension but I was sensible to the light...Even if I had a terrible experience at 40mg and I was a lot tired yesterday with a "great" migraine (that continue today...)im safe now, well I think...My blood pressure is low this morning, wonder why, it was high last night...
You know, I was used to have hypotension on Nardil, but I had never both (Hypertension and Hypotension) on the Nardil...my BP was always low with it. The Parnate seem to stimulate the heart for a couple of hours and after to make the reverse effect by lower the BP...
That's strange the fact that you are not able to tolerate the Parnate again, after the high doses you taked before. Maybe something change in your system?
That's scary a lot to see that such dangerous side-effects can happen when you just increase the dose a little bit like I do. The main key will be to go slowly...and try to deal with the disconfort cause by the side-effets at each step increase...but I really think that if I don'T improve on 40mg, I will maybe not be able to tolerate another increase of 10mg...Side-effects like the ones I experience 2 nights ago are not safe at all. I'm not in a great shape and I don't want to have a heart attack or something like this...and variations of BP like the ones I have are not good for the heart...
On other hands, for now I see little improvements, things that I don't see before or recognize as improvements before yesterday..."the valium reduction, I can go to the drugstore alone and talk to the pharmacist, I can go buy a pack of cigarettes alone...", it seems that the side-effects take too much place in my life now and i'm not focusing on my social phobia...or it seem to be the real effect of the Parnate...who know...I will see with time and stay at the same dose for a couple of weeks now...
Anyway, thanks for your support ;-)
I hope everything is fine with you as well ;-)
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