Posted by m0nger on December 28, 2003, at 12:26:13
In reply to questions about medication combo, posted by m0nger on December 27, 2003, at 22:13:21
haha, sorry about the subject line, it has nothing to do with this post :-D I think maybe the previous post's subject was too generalized (and boring), so nobody read it, and that's why there's been no responses?
Anyway, I went through the archives and found some posts to my questions, including the following:-snip-
"MAOIs and Wellbutrin can be taken together, but only if you are already on an MAOI and adding Wellbutrin very slowly to it. Officially, it's not a recommended combo, but a lot of pdocs have tried it w/ no problem and it is used by many psychopharms.
However, it is probably not a good idea to add an MAOI, particularly Parnate, to your existing dose of Wellbutrin. There haven't been any studies on the safety of this as far as I know."http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20000905/msgs/45093.html
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Okay, i am already on Wellbutrin (not too long tho, just a little over a month now). So i would have to stop wellbutrin, then start the Selegiline, then reintroduce the Wellbutrion, if i were to follow that advice?
However, I am not interested in taking the selegiline at unselective high doses, i want to use it in the 5mg-15mg range (the lower the better, that stuff is expensive and i am getting it on my own through the mail so no insurance coverage, doc wouldn't prescribe it, had a knee jerk reaction when i told him it was MAOI, and wouldn't listen to info about it being well tolerated selective B, etc). I am primarily interested in its possible benefit as an aid to smoking abstinence, and to possibly augment anti-depressents i am already taking (Wellbutrin, SAM-e, Zyprexa(?)) along with some of the other possible "prophylactic" benefits (anti-oxident, immune system enhancment, etc). So should I be worried about introducing it into my regiment (see previous post) at a low dose range, since i have been taking Wellbutrin already? I'd really hate to stop the Wellbutrin, as i seem to be getting some benefits from it; depression is reduced, and i am not chain smoking (i tend to chain smoke when severely depressed, as well
Here's some info that was at the selegiline.com site, pertaining to smoking:
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"This preliminary study suggests that selegiline (10 mg/day) is safe for use and enhances smoking cessation rates compared with placebo in nicotine-dependent cigarette smokers."
http://www.selegiline.com/quitsmoke.html-end snip-
Any replies are welcome, even if ya don't have any answers to my concerns, at least i'll know somebody read the post!
poster:m0nger
thread:293887
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20031225/msgs/294020.html