Posted by SLS on October 15, 2013, at 7:03:52
In reply to Re: Abilify+ Antidepressants..., posted by babbler20 on October 14, 2013, at 20:54:15
> Hi Scott,
>
> You take parnate and notriptyline?Parnate 80 mg/day
nortriptyline 150 mg/day
Lamictal 200 mg/day
lithium 450 mg/day
prazosin 25 mg/day
minocycline 200 mg/day> I had to get off Parnate because I hadn't slept more than 5 hours in a year and a half and I was running out of steam.
> Parnate certainly worked well for me,...
What sorts of things did you try to treat the insomnia?
I refused to let insomnia be the thing to prevent me from taking MAOIs. When necessary, I even took a combination of Halcion and Ativan.
> but I think it just worked because sleep deprivation alleviates depression and anxiety.
I doubt that this was the reason. Sleep deprivation has an acute effect, but cannot be sustained if used everyday. I doubt it would last even one week. Also, 5 hours is really not enough to produce a sleep deprivation antidepressant effect.
> I can't be sure, but I sure would have loved to have tried nortityline when I was on Parnate.
Well, then this represents hope. You still have something left to try - if not with this doctor, then perhaps with another.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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