Posted by SLS on May 7, 2005, at 16:57:53
In reply to MAOI (especially Nardil) withdrawal, posted by Bob on May 7, 2005, at 13:56:38
> If Effexor XR is accepted as one of the worst pysch meds to taper off of, and Prozac is considered one of the easiest, where does Nardil fall in that lineup? Are MAOIs exceptionally hard to stop taking for a lot of people?
>I have found that MAOIs are among the easiest of antidepressant drugs to discontinue as long as you are patient enough to follow a gradual taper. If you taper too rapidly, you will experience many of the same withdrawal symptoms that people coming off of SRIs experience, including brain zaps. In addition, REM rebound can become a prominent withdrawal symptom. Dreaming becomes intense and excessive with occasional hypnagogic (at sleep onset) and hypnopompic (upon awakening) states. This includes sleep paralysis.
I spend about 2 weeks tapering from dosages of:
Parnate 80mg
Nardil 90mgPerhaps you can reduce the dosage by 1 pill every 3 days. Of course, if you have more time to work with, by all means use it.
Unfortunately, my CNS is no longer "naive" to these drugs, and I find them much easier to get off of now than the first few times I tried them.
- Scott
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