Posted by softheprairie on January 27, 2009, at 22:09:35
In reply to Re: Nardil + Bradycardia/Heart Stoppage » softheprairie, posted by TJ99 on January 27, 2009, at 21:49:10
> > Well, I tend to recommend what has helped me, which is the tricyclic desipramine. SLS has taken it before with MAOIs and recommended it. (I think pharmacy computer programs may put out a general contraindication between MAOIs and all TCAs, but there are some references in medical literature of some being okay. Desipramine is not known to act on seratonin, so doesn't present a seratonin syndrome risk. The only known neurotransmitter desipramine acts on is norepinephrine.) Plus, a side effect of desipramine can be to raise one's heartrate (it does for me). Well, that's just what you could use! Plus, there is some usage of desipramine as a second-line, non-stimulant treatment for ADD. (Although, for me, I haven't noticed any attentional improvement from it, but I'm just passing along what I've read.) Two possible bonuses there!
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> Thank you, that sounds interesting...my concern, though, is that I had a pretty bad experience with desipramine before I started with Nardil. Desipramine was the first non-SSRI that I ever tried. I had serious anger problems when I was taking it. Really REALLY angry, far more than anything that was normal for me. After a couple of weeks I quit. My doctor wanted me to continue on for a couple more weeks, but I said I was quitting and wanted to try Nardil because it had worked for my father in 1994. He also had suffered from depression and anxiety and Nardil worked like a charm for him. My wife told me a few months later that she had come very close to asking for a restraining order against me.
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Wowza! I'm sorry the desipramine trial went so badly; I'm glad the anger subsided after you discontinued it.
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