Posted by JadeKelly on January 10, 2009, at 15:34:19
In reply to Re: Parnate - Psychopharmacist » JadeKelly, posted by Mickapoo on January 10, 2009, at 14:22:10
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> > > > Haven't had a chance to read all documents, but good you found the one referring to the StarD study. I have been in 100% remission for 9 days on 60mg of Parnate. One morn I was no-one, suddenly around noon I felt like myself again. I have my life back. Crazy. I'm sure you can relate to my interest in this cause. If/when I have to increase dose, my PDoc may very well say I'm at the limit. My next step is to find a good (MAOI enlightened) Psychopharmacist as suggested in one of your documents.
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> How exactly do you find a Psychopharmacist? What exactly are they? I've been on Nardil prescribed by my family doctor (after some begging on my part), and it's not working so I'd like to try switching to Parnate. Seems like most pDocs or any others want to prescribe MAOI's.
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> MickapooHi!
I Hope I spelled that right. Not sure if they are called Psychopharmacist, or Psychopharmocolist, at any rate, I haven't seen one yet, but I believe they are PDocs but specialize more on the pharmacy end, meaning they know more about the actual medications themselves. I'm gonna make calls to a large hospital in my area and see if I can find one. I imagine they are not as easy to see as a regular PDoc. I wish I had more info for you than that. The benefit I'm hoping is that they will not be hesitant to prescribe things that my PDoc wont or cant because he doesn't have the knowledge and experience. Hope that helps some. If you find one let me know!
As an aside, I did have what I thought was remission but unfortunately it lasted 10 days and then was gone. So I feel like Parnate can work, I get some relief from it, but I'm gonna stick it out and augment further if I need to. Until I get the result I want.
Good Luck!
~Jade
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