Posted by europerep on January 5, 2011, at 17:07:04
In reply to Re: I think Parnate is making me actually worse.. » europerep, posted by maxime on January 5, 2011, at 15:39:41
Argh, damn, you got me :).. I don't really have a pdoc at the moment, to be honest. I prescribed tranylcypromine to myself, over the internet, after doctors here either didn't know what MAOIs are or categorically refused to prescribe them ("we've stopped using them 20 years ago"..). I really tried to do it the legitimate way, but it just didn't work. So I gathered really all the information available on the drug, including spontaneous hypertensive crises, about fifteen different food lists, etc., and I am confident I really have all the information about the drug I could possibly get. I am basically raising the dosage so slowly *because* I don't want to have any preventable trouble from being too impatient. Of course I know doctors here (plenty of 'em by now), so if I ever needed advice I could get it, but if I went there now, they would tell me to get off of it anyway...
I am really wondering what to do now though. Today I spent almost two hours lying on the bathroom floor, wondering whether to take a shower or not. It's not so much "adverse effects", but rather the original condition for which it was prescribed (*cough*) being worsened by it. This is either due to tranylcypromine, or despite it, but to me it really seems more like "due to". I agree, I won't go up any further now, but I wonder whether this is actually sustainable. And this worsening is not something I noticed suddenly, I had noticed it for a while, I just thought it was more due to the disappointment that it hadn't kicked in yet... *sigh* beginning-of-the-21st-century medicine sucks!
(btw, you mentioned once that your pdoc will come here and check your posts every now and then.. I really hope he won't read this, seeing a patient prescribing tranylcypromine to himself must be pretty weird for a doctor :) )
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