Posted by Justherself54 on December 29, 2009, at 9:41:00
In reply to Re: How come more of you are on parnate than nardil?, posted by julie1977 on December 29, 2009, at 4:07:33
A short while ago the board had lots of Nardil threads..it seems to go in cycles.
I've had three trials of parnate and one of nardil..I had to go off parnate as I was having major surgery, restarted it and had a severe chilling thing going on. My gp did all kinds of blood work looking for hidden bacteria and stuff from the surgery, but it was the parnate..I felt sick and frozen all the time, so I stopped it. I still wanted to retry it after my nardil trial was a flop, but this time my blood pressure was all over the charts. I was having spontaneous high BP spikes every day..spent a nite in ER, had a holter monitor test and was advised to stop the parnate.
Nardil's side effects were too much. I couldn't hold my urine, had severe urethra inflammation and gained a large amount of weight in the time I was on it. I also vomited in my sleep. When that started happening my pdoc pulled me off it. Around that time there also was a delay of a couple of months where the shipment of Nardil was help up in Canada. I found one drug store in another city that had one bottle of it..another babbler I know was able to get a "compassionate" supply from a prison. It was pretty scary.
Having said all that, if the physical side effects could have been eliminated, I'd go back on Nardil. I was more like my old self, my self-isolating was completely gone, depression gone. I had a lot of fun before the side effects did me in.
I feel I did give them both a fair trial, and as I've said before..they have side effects that are just too much for some people.
I normally don't post on the MAOI threads, as I don't want to be a negative influence, however, it also concerns me when I see some posters continually struggle with these meds, trying to get to the maximum range of dosages, when the side effects are worse than any benefit they are receiving from the drug.
I'm not anti-MAOI, far from it..my pdoc told me they are great meds, unfortunately most of his patients have had to discontinue them due to intolerable side effects.
As with any med, anyone on MAOI's have to decide with their doctors when to try to continue their trials with MAOI's and when to call it quits.
Don't worry about jinxing your trial just because you posted a success story. It may well be just a bump in the road and you'll start feeling better. If not, at least you can say you've given it a fair trial and it just wasn't the med for you. Best of luck and good wishes to you.
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