Posted by cybercafe on August 23, 2002, at 15:02:22
In reply to Re: Parnate - help, not doing so well, posted by sjb on August 23, 2002, at 13:40:47
> I'm not sure if I would agree that Vince should keep at Parnate for "a lot longer." I read
i don't think it's reasonable to expect an antidepressant to work in 2 weeks, that's all
>somewhere that if you don't respond postively to an MAOI in 3 weeks, you probably won't ever.
hmm.... i would be interested to know where you read that ...
i know i didn't start getting the major antidepressant effect till about 2 months... i think jess took sometime too, but i'm not sure ... i remember someone saying that it wasn't until the 3rd month on nardil that social anxiety was cured .. and it was like a switch...i know i'm glad i stuck with it... i thought it was horrible at first...
>Most of us waste so much time waiting for drugs to work, changing meds, titrating or washing-out, why prolong what is not working? Obviously,
you're right... i think it's absolutely horrible to have to spend so long waiting for a decent effect.. now you should be able to notice a diff in 4 weeks, in general.. however i believe that applies to going from no drugs to taking your first med... i think if you go off a drug which is giving you a partial response then you are going to lose that partial response and feel like you are getting worse no?
>Vince's PDoc knows best (hopefully), but I personally don't think he should stick with it much longer.
how long would you recommend?
> Of course, I am biased. I tried Parnate last year and did not like it at all. I had TOTAL insomnia for the first 3 days and had difficulity sleeping at night after that. Of course, I started to fall asleep in my office at about 3-4pm everyday. Embarrassing to have your head snap up due to drool running down your chin in your own office!parnate kept me up at night, but it was a welcome change from over sleeping... i just took gabapentin before i went to bed and was okay... others take trazodone or whatever..
i find depression hard to get rid of, but insomnia easy to get rid of... so i choose to get rid of the depression first, then worry about other stuff
and i can totally relate to falling asleep at work from the other meds i used to take before parnate... depakote + klonopin + effexor + inderol + gabapentin ... sometimes you bang your arm or head on the keyboard/desk and you look around wondering who noticed ... Ug ...
> Anyway, I also had difficulity working out and my reaction time seemed much decreased. Driving was scary. My 2c. I had a theory that MAOI'sreally? .. i didn't experience reaction time problems on parnate... i did have hypotension for the first little while, but it went away quite quickly ...
>work better for men than women based on what I've read on this board. Obviously, an exception here, but it's seemed to me that the folks that have had the most sucess with MAOIs have, for the most part, been male.i dunno... i think jess seemed to like parnate ...
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