Posted by SLS on December 31, 2009, at 2:36:41
In reply to Parnate Update - I feel awful!!, posted by ColoradoSnowflake on December 31, 2009, at 0:12:42
> Hi Everybody:
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> The Parnate withdrawal symptoms I was having (dizzy, chills, terrible itching, nausea, brain fog, achy joints) have never gone away! And now full blown Rheumatoid Arthritis has laid me low. I get these exacerbations on occasion, but not this bad.
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> I think I'm allergic to Parnate. Damn.
> Parnate is the only AD in 15 years that has really helped me. It gets down to a very deep place where my obsession with suicide lies. No other AD has come close. But I'm a mess and getting worse.
>
> I finally wrote an email to my pdoc tonight to tell him what's going on and see what he thinks.
> I've probably been allergic to Parnate since the git-go and that's why it took me 5 miserable months to get on it. Then it was good!
> It was going from 80mg down to 60mg that stirred everything up. I can't believe I'm still having such bad withdrawal symptoms after a month!I don't think you are experiencing withdrawal per se.
As weird as it sounds, you might be experiencing dysautonomia caused by being in an "in-between" state. This is just a pet theory of mine. If this is true, most of these things should disappear when you increase the dosage. In other words, you are caught in the middle between response and non-response, and it is driving your body crazy. That kind of physiological stress will set off a RA episode.
Any heart palpitations, sweating, or dry mouth.?
- Scott
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