Posted by Ant-Rock on September 3, 2000, at 18:49:30
In reply to To Ant-Rock. Are you still taking adrafinil?, posted by shellie on September 3, 2000, at 12:27:02
Hi Shellie,
I worked my way up to 80 mgs of parnate with no improvement. This was my third time on Parnate and each time it has worked less and less. I began augmenting with adrafanil, slowly got up to 450mgs when my supply ran out because of the nu-brain back-order problem. This was very discouraging, because I wasn't able to get to a high enough dose to make a fair judgement. Anyway, depression was getting worse by the day so i decided to gradually augment Reboxatine with the parnate, which is my current situation. I had plenty of Reboxatine left over from a previous unsuccessful mono-trial. I'm not even sure if these meds are supposed to be combined, but at this point I don't really care. My current meds are Parnate...50mg/day, Reboxatine...6mgs/day.
To answer your questions, Shellie, I have never tried Nardil.In less than a week, I had a horrible severe depressive reaction to small dose of Risperdal, almost as bad as Amoxapine, but thats another story. As far as your Dr. not letting you try Adrafanil, I would not let this stop you. Provided your not augmenting it with something that is contradicted. My Dr.(Here in Rhode Island) I believe goes along with me trying these european meds because #1, he knows it's my decision #2 he's also frustrated after seeing me for years and knowing that nothing else has helped.
I do think Parnate is a good drug. A few years ago the first time I tried it, It worked pretty well, probably the best out of all the meds I've tried. Only side effect was it made me wake up really early, but no problems falling asleep at night. Unfortunately, it did lose its effect on me, but this is not the usual case from what I have read.
Anyway, thanks for writing to me Shellie, I hope I could be of some help to you as well. Good luck with the Parnate if you decide to go that route. It certainly is an energizing med, and you seem to be looking for this effect. Let me know how it works out or if you have any other questions, feel free to ask.
Sincerely,Anthony
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