Posted by SLS on October 16, 2017, at 10:37:01
In reply to Re: MAOI large doses » PeterMartin, posted by MightyKondrian on October 16, 2017, at 6:13:43
> > How did you do on 150mg of Marplan? I take it but always have w.in the 40-60 range. That's been good for me and I always seemed to get spacey when I tried 60 and 70.
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> Well It creept up from 60 up to 120mg over 10yrs or more. The last couple yrs I went up to 150mg.
> All Hydrazine derivative MAOIs seem to have side effect that come on somewhat delayed. Then they last for anywhere from 3-9 months. but they always pass, eventually.
> My doc did say I have an unusual tolerance to Marplan. I'm hoping to (if the clonidine doesn't help) try up to increase my phenelzine to 150mg.
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> Tranylcypramine is still on the cards but certainly not the time for that. I must ask him about Moclobemide or Selegiline. He said he'd be much more confident with most combinations. Then I can have lashings of different cheeses in my pizzas! :D
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Both the selegiline patch and moclobemide are treatments with low probabilities of being robustly or persistently effective. You will most likely feel very much better with moclobemide early in treatment - maybe within the first few days. This will probably last for a week to a month before you must continually increase the dosage to maintain an improvement up to a maximum of 1200 mg/day. Also, you really should consider consuming no more than 50 mg. of tyramine at any one meal. If I were you, I imagine I would try both treatments because I am desperate, and you never from where will come your healing. Because of this, I already tried both drugs. I guess I would try the selegiline patch first if moclobemide is not available in your country. However, the selegiline patch is not very effective until you get to 12 mg/24 hrs. At this dosage, selegiline becomes less selective and inhibits both MAO-A and MAO-B. In my estimation, it is the inhibition of MAO-A that exerts most of the antidepressant effect. So, it won't be a surprise if moclobemide makes you feel better at first. The ideal MAOI would be an irreversible and selective MAO-A inhibitor.I hope one of these two drugs bring you to remission.
What drugs have you combined with Nardil so far?
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