Posted by King Vultan on December 21, 2004, at 0:33:49
In reply to Any comments to my above posts KVultan,Cybercafe, posted by jparsell82 on December 20, 2004, at 19:15:53
I've been on Parnate since August and have been on 60 mg/day now for about five weeks. My experience at the lower dosages was that it was also somewhat of a rollercoaster ride, but with more downs than highs. As I recall, I experienced significant depression for a period of time on some of these dosage increases, such as going from 30 to 40 mg/day. It was not real fun while in the midst of it, but I realized the Parnate was probably stimulating and downregulating some hypersensitive autoreceptors or some other blasted thing; I would have to say I had a certain amount of faith in the basic psychopharmacology of the drug, and this in itself was probably therapeutic and helpful.
I have noticed with both Nardil and Parnate that they seem to make me feel cold, but Parnate does not do this to the same extent Nardil did and also does not lower my blood pressure and heart rate nearly as much. The only real side effect I have suffered on Parnate is insomnia, which is very bad and even worse than it was on Nardil, and it's taken a lot of work to come up with a combination of sleep meds that works. I'm currently alternating back and forth between 0.25 mg triazolam one night and 5 mg Ambien + 25 mg Benadryl the next, augmented both nights with sleep/relaxation CDs.
I did feel there was a very worthwhile improvement for me personally going from 50 to 60 mg/day as far as motivation and drive. I am accomplishing more and feeling much better about my performance at work, not that it was necessarily all that terrible before, and with a similar improvement in my boldness and self-confidence, I believe I actually am going to bring up the issue of a raise at the first opportunity it seems appropriate to do so. Hopefully, some of the constructiveness I've learned in this forum will aid me in discussing this in a positive and diplomatic mannner.
Todd
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