Posted by stargazer2 on February 25, 2008, at 17:32:53
In reply to Re: UK vs. US. Nardil??? Please Help!, posted by squatlover on February 25, 2008, at 16:59:55
Squat, true old Nardil was deep red and did not dissolve so readily on your tongue. It therefore lasted much longer in the body and I only took 30 mg rather than 60 mg.
Has anyone ever thought that perhaps Pfizer changed the formula so that we would have to take much more since they didn't make much money on the older version of Nardil and now with doses at least twice the previous version, it makes it worth it and probably a profitable med, although it is never advertised.
Is this because if more people took Nardil and had good results, the sales of other more expensive AD meds would fail.
Just things to consider since Marplan, another MAO, was discontinued many years ago when I was successfully taking it and it was discontinued due to a marketing decision, i.e. not profitable enough. It is back now but when I tried it this past year it wasn't the same as the earlier version.
Successful drugs can be reformulated and brought back but they never work the same, despite being told they are the same drug. The only reason we know old and new Nardil differ is that the users of old Nardil fought to find out how they differed since their responses to the newer version did not work well and many found theyselves in the hospital after years of stability.
It can be so frustrating if you have gone through a situation like this, stable on a known med, that med gets discontinued or reformulated and the bottom falls out of your life. This happened to me on Marplan and Nardil. Both original versions were "miracle" drugs for me, but after Marplan wasdiscontinued and Nardil was reformulated, life was not the same. I'm stable but not as good as I felt on the original Nardil, due to Pfizer's greed and lack of honesty with reformulating Nardil. They still claim they are the same thing, although the ingredients differ enough to alter the way the med is broken down.
It's hard to trust drug manufacturers when they do this without a thought to how it affects the end user, rather than their bottom line, which is a factor, of course, but has to come after patient
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