Posted by Jedi on April 30, 2008, at 1:52:23
In reply to Re: Nardil : Help -suddenly I am very sick, posted by 4WD on April 29, 2008, at 16:52:00
Marsha,
So glad you are feeling better. The diarrhea plus the several meds that can cause hypotension probably added up to a very bad day. As I remember, your BP runs rairly low anyway. Then when it goes much lower, you're going to feel sick. My BP runs borderline high, so the Nardil for me acts as a blood pressure medication and lowers it from 10 to 20 points. Keeps me off of the diaretics and beta blockers. I used to use trazodone for sleep. Now I'm on a very low dose of Seroquel(25mg), works every night for me. I may experiment with Traz again sometime, see what it feels like now. It used to really knock me for a loop, but then so does Seroquel.
Take care and be well,
Jedi> I am much better today. I went to see my wise old family doctor this morning. (He did a psychiatric residency at one point and prescribed Nardil a lot back then).
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> He suggested that because I had had severe diarrhea for three days in a row, my fluids were depleted and that caused the sudden and abrupt drop in blood pressure.
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> I didn't take any slep med last night. I didn't take the Trazadone to try and raise BP. But I am going to have to take trazadone. It does a lot more for me than act as a sleep aid. When I first started taking it, I noticed that a (wonderful) side effect was that it kept me from waking up scared. And I didn't take it last night and woke up this morning terrified. So I am going to go back on it.
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> I am also returning to 45mg of Nardil. And I might reduce the Geodon from 80mg a day to 60. Not sure yet. I only took 20 last night instead of 40 and that may have contributed to my waking up so scared this morning. I think tonight I will take the full 100mg of trazadone and leave the Geodon at 20 instead of 40 and see what happens. if I wak up so scared again, I will know I need the 40 mg of Geodon at night.
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> So for now I am back on the exact schedule of meds I was on before all this happened. I am trusting that my old doctor was right and the loss of fluids caused the severe hypotension.
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> As far as waking up too early, that didn't happen last night. So maybe it was related to the low blood pressure. Who knows? We'll see what happens tonight.
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> Thanks to all of you who responded.
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> Marsha
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