Posted by KaraS on January 11, 2005, at 4:30:24
My friend takes selegiline for Parkinson's Disease. She usually takes 10 mg. a day but recently her doctor told her she could take 15 mg. Unfortunately he never told her anything about the diet or the risk of hypertensive crisis. We were talking on the phone tonight and I mentioned that I'm considering an MAOI and we discussed the risk of hypertensive crises. She said that sounded like what happened to her the other night. She had just thought that it was a horrible migraine. She had eaten cheddar cheese earlier in the day. Since she didn't know what was happening to her, she didn't go to an emergency room or take anything to lower her blood pressure. If we hadn't spoken, who knows how many times this might have happened to her.
She had bought a big hunk of cheddar cheese and would definitely have eaten it again. I'm just so angry that she had to go through that and that her ignorant doctor didn't warn her. This is one of the major PD medications and he doesn't know enough to warn his patients about the MAOI diet?
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