Posted by stargazer2 on June 11, 2007, at 22:52:36
In reply to Re: Nifedipine/ BP crisis/Jedi/ I'll inform my doc, posted by girlnterrupted78 on June 11, 2007, at 18:28:01
This article has more specific info on the food items,I think it says soy milk is OK, just reread for verification.
http://www.tu.edu/user_files/10/19.html
Nardil fell out of favor once all the "great" SSRI's came out and then Marplan worked for a while until discontinued but I remember saying to my pdoc I want to try Nardil again and he always had another "better" one for me to try. I could just kill myself for losing sight of things, which is easily done with very severe depression where you are trying so hard to follow your pdoc's recommendations. Too bad I did for so long, it was my life being wasted no one elses.
Drugs can be discontinued whenever, I think, they don't have to petition for the discontinuation or anything else why would Marplan be discontinued so abruptly back in 1994. I had no time to prepare for that, it was just gone one day after I had 2 years of stable functioning. I cried every day having that rug pulled out from under me.
Nardil supposedly was never discontinued except Pfizer took over the patent and became the manufacturor rather than Parke Davis and was allowed to make changes in the "incipient" ingredients and that was not considered a change in the basic formulation for some reason although the effects of the medication were noticed by users of the previous version, complaining to Pfizer about poor results with the new formula. To this day, Pfizer has denied any change in the efficacy or reason for the medication to act differntly. I don't understnd all the happenings with this process but this formula change has been challenged since 2003 and there is a website to file a complaint with Pfizer, but I haven't heard any proposed change back to the original formula.
All I know is that lesser amounts were needed before the formula change and new side effects, probably your GI effects, may be the result of the coating breaking down too quickly and releasing the active ingredients sooner than they should be. That is why some people require up to 90 mg when the previous formula was much lower.
The pills have a sickening sweet smell like soapy flowers, it's disgusting.
Stargazer
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