Posted by kirbyw on September 26, 2009, at 13:22:13
In reply to Re: Remeron Parnate transtition » kirbyw, posted by Phillipa on September 17, 2009, at 20:44:05
For anyone who is interested, regarding this transition, all the information that I could find indicated that a few days would be a safe transition time from Remeron to Parnate.
Then I finally got my Costa Rican Pdoc to investigate it in his clinical textbooks and he also said that four or five days should be fine.To err just a little bit on the side of caution we agreed on 7, I am now on 3rd day of Parnate after 7 days of disconting and remeron and no problem, knock on wood.
I have to take a low dose of Parnate because of its interaction with Lopressor, a heart med, (my blood pressure gets too low and I get too much postural hypotension) but I have seen that Parnate helps at 20 mg. Don't know if I will get to 30 mgRemeron has some good points---no diet worries, increased libido, and no blood pressure issues. All of these are important to me, but the bottom line was that the "core" of my depression was not improving on Remeron, or so it seemed on a rather short trial. But I didn't want to wait any longer and risk getting more depressed, so decided to get back on Parnate.
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