Posted by linkadge on March 30, 2006, at 20:47:13
In reply to Re: Still doing great on Parnate... Linkage » linkadge, posted by MARTY on March 30, 2006, at 17:12:21
No I see what you are saying. I think that if you ask you might find a doctor who is willing to prescribe something to help.
My case was like this. I got up and ate a tyramine free breakfast (at least it I thought it was tyramine free). Anyhow, I noticed that my heart started to rise, and that my home BP monitor was registering an increasing BP. It may have been about an 1/2 hour till I called a canadian health hotline which told me to skip noon dose and get to doctor. I went to doctor, who said it was a panic attack and sent me off with some benzodiazapine. The bp went up still, and I got myself to a hospital where they said it was a hypertensive crisis where they gave me something (can't recall what).
I don't quite recall but it all happened in within 2 hours or so, but don't know when peak was.
It did involve chest pain, and when the pulse got too high, my heart started to do a stange double beat (dr said it was trying to reset itself).
Whatever they gave me in the hospital worked.
They took me off the drug which was a mistake, and made me stay in the hospital for a few weeks till they started me back on an SSRI.
From what I've read, parnate can sometimes do that (ie. cause spontanious hypertensive crisis) it is supposedly rare though.
I would just keep asking doctors. It seems strange to me that they would not give something like that out. Theres got to be some way..
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