Posted by DSCH on December 15, 2003, at 22:00:37
In reply to Re: Surprising success w/an older Med-Imipramine, posted by psychlover on December 15, 2003, at 21:00:17
> Yeah, I have read other people talking about surprising success with the TCAs, like Parnate, for example.
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> Does this mean you have to be careful not to eat wine or cheese or else you could die? That would suck! <:-o
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> -psychloverYou are confusing the tricyclics with the (irreversible) monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
Imipramine is the oldest of the tricyclics, and a 'teritary-amine' one. The side effects tend to be less severe with the newer 'secondary-amine' ones.
Parnate is a MAOI. MAOIs are the meds with the "cheese effect" (and a slew of contraindications with other medications).
I wrote a guide to the major classes of meds not too long ago you might find helpful (I didn't get the MAOI discussion quite right, so I added follow-up postings).
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20030923/msgs/263264.htmlAnd SLS maintains an extremely detailed chart on psychoactive medications (trade name, real name, intended use, half life, class, and supposed method of action).
http://sl.schofield3.home.att.net/medicine/psychiatric_drugs_chart.html
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