Posted by Nardilstarted2007 on November 26, 2007, at 13:22:35
In reply to Re: Now think this out because it's not so bad » Nardilstarted2007, posted by tecknohed on November 26, 2007, at 4:51:47
> >Im pretty well Adapted to it now but I feel It could be better. I may go up to 90mgs but I fear If I do that now it will not kick in in time for the presentations I have to do at school in one week, I might just get more side efectd right away which will make me worse for presentating.. So I guesse ill stay at 75mg for now untill this semester is done then maybe try 90 if the 75 doesn't kick in better. Does anyone think that even tho it kicked in at 4 weeks and now I'm at 6.5 weeks that I will still get more benefits just staying at 75mgs? I dont want to go higher really, but if this is all 75 mgs will do I might have to. any input would be greatly appreaciated to know if my current dose will kick in even more.
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> I thought you said above "it sure has curbed my social phobia". Isn't this good enough? What else are you hoping for it to do?
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> Anyhow, you may indeed find more relief from 90mg, but that doesn't really leave you any room should you need to increase the dose in the future, unless your pdoc is VERY familiar with MAOIs & allows you to go higher.
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> OR, have you considered adding clonazepam to help the SP out a little more? You may only need 1-1.5mg/day. Dont know if you've ever tried it but I've found clonazepam the best benzo for SP for me, but I need 3mg/day of it though at this dose I seem to have stabilized & never find it more-ish. And as Nardil already raises GABA you shouldn't need a very high dose.
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> teckHi Teck, Yes it has really curbed my SP, I can go anywhere and talk to anyone, so its working very well for that. I'ts quite a dramatic improvement and nardil keeps me mellow and more like myself unlike ssri's that would make me very depersonalized and give me hypomania for a few days then nothing then hypomania then nothing, so they made me bipolar you could say.
The nardil is wonderful except that I dont think it will curb a panic attack next week when I do some presentations at school, I just started toastmasters.. I am very comfortable around people but I'll still start to panic if I have to give a small speach. I know Nardil wont fix everything and I need exposure therapy as well. I am taking .5mg zanax 4x/day = 2mg's/day. Its just these damn speaches I dont know if I can do it, thats why I was wondering if nardil could be better. I'll give some thought to clonazepam but I dont want to change my current drug regime because I only have a week before presentations so I shouldn't be doing any trial's right now. I have a betta blocker aswell so hopefully that will get me through my presentations. Other then that ya Nardil is doing wonderful for SP and it almost feels like a mood stabilizer even though I've never been on one. So ya its gread but im still deathly scared to present.. oh well, we'll see what we can do in the future. I must say I'm glad not to be agoraphobic anymore and paranoid.
Your bud, NardilStarted
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