Posted by Tomatheus on August 12, 2014, at 12:14:15
In reply to Re: MAOI diet » Tomatheus, posted by MuseMemento on August 12, 2014, at 11:28:22
MuseMemento,
Thank you for your reply. I didn't dine out very much while I was taking Nardil, Parnate, and Marplan, but I don't recall running into many problems on the few occasions when I did. I think that I just stuck with eating foods that I knew were safe, although I know that doing this isn't always easy to do because some restaurants serve a lot of foods with complex recipes. I think that I remember somebody saying on an Internet forum (possibly here) that they made a list of all the restricted foods and that they would let someone in the kitchen of the restaurant they were eating at see the list to make sure that what they ordered didn't have the restricted foods in it. You might want to try taking that approach, especially if you're planning on eating out a lot. You don't necessarily have to say that you're taking an MAOI if you do make a list of the restricted foods. You could always just say something vague, like "I can't eat these foods for health reasons."
I think that it's understandable to have some anxiety about the washout that you need to go through while transitioning from other medications to MAOIs and also about the unfamiliarity of the diet. Some of the lists of restricted foods contain dated information and include a lot of foods that are actually safe to eat with MAOIs, and it can be hard to know for sure when looking at the lists of foods whether or not they're up to date. I can say that I didn't find following the diet to be too difficult, especially once I got used to not eating the restricted foods, but then again, I didn't dine at restaurants too often when I was taking MAOIs. I'd like to be able to say that dining out while following the MAOI diet will also be something that you'll likely get used to, but again, I only ate at restaurants every now and then while taking MAOIs.
I wish you the best of luck with your MAOI trial, and I hope that the rest of your washout won't go too badly.
Tomatheus
Has a psychotic disorder with strong chronic fatigue symptoms
Taking Abilify, glycine, tocotrienols, & vitamins B3 & D3
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