Posted by deepreason on May 19, 2011, at 13:28:25
In reply to Re: What was or is your PARNATE experience?, posted by bulldog2 on January 3, 2009, at 17:23:54
> > > > "You might try neurontin or lyrica in place of klonopin. In my experience neurontin is more pro-social than klonopin and has ad and anti-anxiety effects for me."
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> > > But I'd still have to w/d from Klonopin, right? I take it for nerve pain and not sure I even need it anymore. No psych dependence at all. I like the idea of neurontin as it treats nerve pain if it turns out I did need something. It helps with sleep? Or do you have to take during day to get all benefits?
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> > > Thanks
> > > ~Jade
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> > I take it during the day high dose 3600 and it stimulates me...Sometimes makes me drowsy and I take coffee to wake me up...I usually take 2 milligrams klonopin on days I don't take neurontin...On days I take neurotin I take .5 or 1 milligram and sometimes none at all(klonopin)...You can wean off klonopin while taking neurontin.....
> > You can start at a lower dose like 600 or even 300 three times a day for an ad and anti anixety dose.
> > I don't take it everyday as people say you will build a tolerance to it...ive taken it as much as 6 days in a row and it worked...usually only three times a week tops....Just a nice adjunct like having a few drinks but nicer and cleaner and a little stim feeling.
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> The stim effect is good in a way...It makes you feel good until the real ad effect kicks in.
> I was thinking of trying it...But i'm 60 with treated hypertension...So I don't know if this is to dangerous for me.
> I think nardil might be safer in terms of hypertension...It has a rep for causing weight gain...I like the parnate but would have to go low dose like 30 mg and take separate doses...
>Nardil has dropped my blood pressure by about 20-30 points so that should more than compensate for any increase due to weight gain. If anything I'm having problems with hypotension.
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