Posted by psychobot5000 on February 4, 2007, at 1:38:53
In reply to Re: Parnate and abuse, posted by NYCguy on February 2, 2007, at 21:39:35
> This is very interesting. I've taken all the pstims for my ADD-i tendancies and so I know what that feels like. Are you guys saying that there isn't any other effect of Parnate other than the one you'd feel with amphetimine? It feels like it is working, but not fully. I'm waiting for it to "kick in" take the most of the blues away. If there is to be no more improvment except that of it being more stimulating the way taking more stims would be... man that stinks.
>My personal experience with Parnate (I also just started) is that there's definitely an independent antidepressant effect, besides the stimulant one. The evidence (and conventional opinion among psychiatrists) seems to back that up. I wouldn't get disheartened--maybe you just haven't had enough weeks on it to get that full AD effect, yet.
I do believe that you get better MAO inhibition by spreading the doses out over the day, though. That way your blood-levels of the drug are high, and constantly snapping up MAO. Since that's the presumed mechanism behind the AD effect, it seems the best dosing strategy--assuming you don't get insomnia. It's one of the best! Don't lose hope after just a couple of weeks! But as for me, I say don't sell parnate's stimulant effect short--no doubt here that it's helping me.
Best wishes!
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