Posted by pallor on July 26, 2009, at 6:54:04
In reply to Re: getting off of nardil... tips?, posted by SLS on July 26, 2009, at 6:25:26
I am having vivid dreams, "brain zaps", etc.
I was on 90 mg's of nardil for 2 yrs; prior to that, I had been taking it for 6 months (at a slightly lower dosage) and tried to get off... i had a severe bout of depression shortly after, wound up in the hospital, & agreed to go back on it. this past june, i went from bad to suicidal, so my doc took me from 90 mg to zero in less than 2 wks.
i am ...astounded by how much better i feel mentally, and if i have to deal with the physical symptoms of withdrawal forever to feel this way, it will still be worth it. so i really don't want to get back on it, even to alleviate these symptoms, as i really think that it began doing me more harm than good about 6 months ago.
the withdrawal symptoms began almost immediately when i started to taper off of it... but the mood improvement also started at that time. (i also felt much more alert, my skin started to clear up, my thoughts felt much more clear, etc.) my doc said that once it was out of my system i'd feel better(based on its half-life, that would've been around july 15th).
now i'm reading that some people experience protracted withdrawal symptoms for months, & in some cases, years. that concerns me b/c the nausea & headaches are incapacitating at times.
poster:pallor
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