Posted by Jedi on May 29, 2007, at 1:50:04
In reply to Parnate - no dizziness today (so far), posted by Malcolm664 on May 29, 2007, at 0:01:21
Malcolm,
Sounds to me like a case of hypotension. If you have not been on MAOIs very long and rise suddenly, the dizziness, etc. is a very common side effect. They symptoms of hypertension are very subtle or nonexistant until the BP is very high. I went to the walk-in clinic today for a sinus infection. The nurse checked my BP at 160/100. I had them recheck it, because it has never been that high. Normally it runs at 130/70 or so. After a couple of hours, that is what it measured at home(127/72). The MAOIs act as an anti-hypertensive medication, unless you are increasing your tyramine level also. I did drink several cups of coffee before I went to the clinic, but I've been doing that for 10 years on MAOIs. Anybody have an idea what may have caused the spike in BP. I hadn't eaten anything yet on that day, so I don;t think it was tyramine.
Jedi> I posted a message yesterday about how I fell four times while on my way to the bathroom last night.
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> Well it's now 12:39 am and...no dizziness at at all.
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> Very strange indeed!
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> Anyone care to venture an explanation? I know that Parnate (and MAOI's) cause hypertension if you eat something that's on the prohibited list. I don't think that I did, but could have. Could that have been it?
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> What I'd like to know is whether high blood pressure (hypertension) has some of the same same symptoms as low BP? (dizziness, loss of balance). B/C I'm thinking that perhaps I ate something I wasn't supposed to, didn't realize it, and as a result got dizzy during the night and as a result fell flat on my *ss four times).
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> (Now losing your balance and falling is never very funny, but I'd expect that if anyone were around when it happened, they might have been on the floor laughing their *ss off.) It WAS pretty funny to watch.
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> Anyway, back to my question, are the symptoms of hypertension (again, loss of balance, dizziness, etc) the same as hypotension? B/C that's the only exlanation that would make sense (Although I didn't experience any of the other signs of hypertension (chest pain, shortness of breath, headache, etc).
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> Malcolm
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