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Re: Are MAOI's used when SSRI'S dont work?

Posted by emmanuel98 on June 22, 2011, at 20:40:12

In reply to Re: Are MAOI's used when SSRI'S dont work?, posted by Phillipa on June 22, 2011, at 19:23:36

my p-doc (who is 72) said younger doctors are not being trained in how to use MAOIs. I did a two week washout from lexapro to try ensam (which didn't work for me), but the p-doc at the hospital I was in thought I needed a five-week washout. My p-doc came to the hospital and met with me and the p-doc there to straighten things out. My p-doc told me that when he was a resident, he studied at Charing Cross Hospital in London and they used MAOIs all the time. Now they are almost never prescribed. He was a resident in the late 1960s.

When I started on selegeline, I said maybe they don't prescribe these to suicidal patients because I could just eat some salami and cheese, wash it down with chiati and check out. The hospital p-doc and resident solemnly shook their heads, but my p-doc said it doesn't work that way. These are tendencies, not certainties. You have to have a few ounces of cheese to get into trouble.

So younger docs just don't know about MAOIs.


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