Posted by Lou Pilder on November 22, 2014, at 10:34:24
In reply to take clomipramine and desipramine together?, posted by Joe Rogan on November 21, 2014, at 13:00:42
> is that safe? or would taking venlafaxine be better?
JR,
I am unsure as to what you are wanting to mean here. If you could post answers to the following, then I could have the opportunity to respond accordingly.
True or False:
A. Your prescriber is saying for you to take the two drugs together
B. You have some rational reason to think that taking the two together will lead you out of the depression that you are in, if that is why you are asking about these two drugs to be taken together.
C. I believe, Lou, that I have a chemical imbalance in my brain and that taking the two chemicals together will balance the imbalance.
D. I am aware, Lou, of the chemical make up of both drugs and know that the chemicals are not neuro-toxic.
E. I know, Lou, that the drugs together could increase the possibility of life-ruining conditions and addictions and the possibility of death exponentially to those that take them together.
F. I know, Lou, that the active metabolite in both of the drugs could be the same.
G. I know, Lou, that tardive dyskinesia could happen to me by taking the drugs either by themselves or together
H. I will get these drugs and take them, Lou, if someone here says it is OK, even if my prescriber will not prescribe them to me.
I. Since the owner of this site, Lou, has not flagged that there could be adverse consequences to taking these drugs together, then I think it would be OK to take them together because the owner is a psychiatrist and if there could be adverse consequences to taking them together, he would have posted so.
Lou
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