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Posted by brooke484 on July 10, 2007, at 9:45:30
Please, someone, tell me if this is normal. I was doing fine up until I raised the nardil from 45 to 60 mgs one week ago. I've been having major anxiety, palpitations, am lightheaded, nauseous, etc. I feel AWFUL. Like I said in my other post, I've been popping ativan like candy just to stop from having a panic attack. I thought Nardil helped with anxiety, but I'm a compete wreck. I wake up in the middle of the night with a tight chest and palpitations. My doctor wants me to stick it out one more week, but I don't know if I can.
Any advice would be great.
Thank you so much.
brooke
Posted by Phillipa on July 10, 2007, at 11:48:32
In reply to Please give me advice - Nardil problems, posted by brooke484 on July 10, 2007, at 9:45:30
Maybe Michael U Gotta Have Hope will see this and answer you. I know stargazer is away. Love Phillipa
Posted by F00TBALL on July 10, 2007, at 16:10:47
In reply to Please give me advice - Nardil problems, posted by brooke484 on July 10, 2007, at 9:45:30
> Please, someone, tell me if this is normal. I was doing fine up until I raised the nardil from 45 to 60 mgs one week ago. I've been having major anxiety, palpitations, am lightheaded, nauseous, etc. I feel AWFUL. Like I said in my other post, I've been popping ativan like candy just to stop from having a panic attack. I thought Nardil helped with anxiety, but I'm a compete wreck. I wake up in the middle of the night with a tight chest and palpitations. My doctor wants me to stick it out one more week, but I don't know if I can.
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> Any advice would be great.
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> Thank you so much.
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> brooke
My thoughts: While I didn't have increased anxiety as a side-effect from Nardil, I did suffer from several other absolutely terrible side-effects. However, unless your anxiety and other side-effects are so unbearable that you are considering taking your life, I STRONGLY RECOMMEND that you stick with it. The side-effects DO FADE with time, and the ultimate benefit is so great.Think of it as if the Nardil is testing you to see if you're worthy. It starts off by attacking you with all of it's god-awful side effects, but if you can hold your own ground and not give up, it will decide your worthy and unleash its magic upon you! (Yeah, I know that sounds extremely lame, but telling it to myself helped me fight through the side-effects)
Also, if you're taking Nardil in the first place, you probably are already feeling pretty awful. So what's worse, quitting Nardil and continuing to feel awful, or feeling even worse for a few weeks on Nardil, before possibly feeling dramatically better for the rest of your life?
Posted by brooke484 on July 10, 2007, at 19:26:36
In reply to Re: Please give me advice - Nardil problems, posted by F00TBALL on July 10, 2007, at 16:10:47
You're right. I was just doing so well (side effect wise) up until 1 week ago. It just hit me so hard and I hate taking so much ativan. All I need now is to become addicted to that.
I will try really hard to stick with it.
Thank you for the encouragement. It helped.
brooke
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