Posted by J Kelly on May 3, 2016, at 22:41:52
In reply to discontinuing parnate, posted by baseball55 on May 3, 2016, at 19:14:18
> I am having hip replacement surgery in three weeks. I had a hip replacement three years ago, same doctor, same hospital. Was taking parnate, no problem.
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> But I had the pre-op appointment today and was told that the new chief of anesthesiology will not work with patients on MAOI's. Too many potential complications, he says. I have to be off parnate for a week before surgery. That gives me two weeks to discontinue!!
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> I currently take 40mg/day. In the past, I have discontinued by dropping 10/mg every week or two. I'm not so worried about going off parnate - I have been stable for almost a year and can use abilify PRN if things get bad. But I worry about dropping from 40-0 in two weeks. I will call my p-doc tomorrow to tell him about this.
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> Have people d/c-ed parnate quickly before? Any d/c problems? What should I expect?
>I had to d/c 80mg parnate with no wash out period. I was in the hospital. They put me on high doses of Geodon for the first two weeks and I was okay. When I came home I had a few days of pretty severe anxiety.
It can be done but I'd keep the abilify handy.
Jade
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