Posted by Girlnterrupted78 on November 17, 2009, at 4:23:25
I've been taking Parnate 80mgs + Adderall 15mgs for about 3 months now.
When I was on Parnate 60mgs and adderall 15mgs, Parnate kicked in and I was on remission for about a month.
Then for whatever reason, Parnate stopped working to its fullest and I went from remission, to just "somewhat" feeling better than depressed. The effects of Parnate didn't completely vanish--
but they were greatly reduced.The emotional distress and chronic gut wrenching feeling that I had from depression are back, although not as severe as before; and my socializing, although not as good as when on remission, is still somewhat above what it was before Parnate, but I still experience some distress.
So I guess I could say the relief I first experienced with Parnate dropped from an 85% to a 55-60%.
Now I'm just wondering about Adderall. I took it years ago for attention deficit and I built tolerance to it within a month (or less) and then it did nothing at all for me, so I stopped it.
After about a year, I decided to give it a second try to see if the "tolerance" had diminished. But no, apparently I was permanently tolerant and immune to it, so I figured I'd never use it again.
But now my doctor decided to give it to me along with Parnate. I don't know if somehow, mixed with Parnate, adderall might have some "other" (synergic?) effects I'm not aware of, but from experience, it does nothing for me anymore, and since now Parnate, even at a high dose of 80mgs, is just giving me partial benefits, I was thinking that maybe I should just drop the adderall altogether?
I can add something else (nortryptiline) like others have suggested, but should I keep taking the adderall or drop it?
Any advice on this would be appreciated.
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