Posted by anita on October 17, 1999, at 17:16:49
In reply to Re: Elizabeth, posted by JohnL on October 17, 1999, at 2:53:19
Well good luck Elizabeth! Just some comments while I'm in a writing mood: I didn't experience any Parnate withdrawal until 2 days after I was off it completely. I'd get a supply of benzos for it too ;-). One thing I noticed about TCAs is that while the dry mouth was horrible at first it did get better, and when I combined an SSRI with a low-dose tricyclic I actually had no side effect, for what that's worth.
How long are you waiting after you stop Parnate to start Marplan or whatever? I did fine with only 10 days. BTW, did you find lithium to help with irritability? BTW, I haven't tried Marplan yet, scared of weight gain.
take care,
anita> > I'm now down to 10mg of Parnate. I haven't noticed any withdrawal symptoms. My plan is to increase the lithium to 900mg and if necessary use buprenorphine to get through the washout period. If I do decide to add Marplan (I'm not sure about this part yet), I will use pindolol to accelerate its onset.
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