Posted by torchgrl on January 10, 2000, at 16:24:56
In reply to Re: Parnate: Need more anecdotal info pls, posted by S. Suggs on January 10, 2000, at 6:06:01
Michele,
I took Parnate briefly last summer, but discontinued it due to side effects. For the first week or so, I was waking up early every day (for me, unheard of), ready to go, but would crash around 2. I was also hardly eating anything (again, a positive effect for me), but that also diminished within a week or 2. The main negative side-effect was the orthostatic hypotension--at first, I would just get dizzy if I got up or turned my head too quickly. But then it started to happen spontaneously: I'd just be walking down the street and the world would go topsy-turvy, and I actually fell over in the kitchen once because of that. I wish that aspect hadn't been so bad, because I never really had a chance to fully evaluate the AD properties--I just couldn't take the spontaneous extreme dizzy spells. I can't remember any other major side-effects, other than extreme dry-mouth, which was also really aggravating for me as I'm a singer (sometimes, anyway), and it really got in the way. But I did start drinking LOTS of water!
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