Posted by jedi on May 10, 2010, at 23:57:55
In reply to NARDIL Dosage Increase?, posted by angels78 on May 9, 2010, at 0:23:33
> I've been on Nardil for a month and a half and 3 weeks on 60 MG. I have noticed when I still have social anxiety in public enviornments and still very hesitant, my question is, should I ask to increase my dose to 75 mg/day do you think this can have a positive effect or wait out another month at 60mg?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. ThanksHi Angels78,
I wrote a monster post on your other thread about myself and Nardil augmented with clonazepam. Probably, way more information on myself than anybody needed or wanted to read.Anyway, like you, my depression is accompanied with pretty severe social anxiety. For me, the gold standard is Nardil + clonazepam. Many times, if I have a social event, I will take some extra benzo to get through the occasion. As you probably guessed, I'm not big on social occasions. Anyway, both Nardil and clonazepam have a large affect on GABA. I have a tolerance built up to the tiredness effect of clonazepam. However, it still really helps augment the Nardil for social anxiety. An extra 15mg of Nardil would do nothing, but for a particularly stressful social occasion, an extra 2mg of clonazepam really can take off the edge. With no tolerance built up, this dosage would just put most people to sleep.
Since I seem to be laying out my med strategies to you, my other is small dosages of opioids. My system just works so much more efficiently with about 5mg of oxycodone on board. I only do it rarely, but with my recent hip replacement, I have been experimenting more often (access to the medication). Anyway, it just makes me feel more normal. I do not get nauseated like some people, I do not get the least bit euphoric, I just feel better as far as the depression and social phobia is concerned.
As I mentioned in another thread, those opioid receptors were not put there just to make the drug dealers lots of money. I would really like to see 100 times the research put into why these medications make many of us treatment resistant depressives and social phobics feel so much better. I am just tired of the same big three neurotransmitters getting all of the attention, when there are other major pieces to this very complicated puzzle.
OK, I'll shut up now. Take care,
Jedi
Jedi
Treatment resistant, atypical, double depression with social anxiety.
Nardil + clonazepam
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