Posted by jedi on October 20, 2006, at 1:20:50
In reply to Nardil - night eating - anyone else ?, posted by petel on October 18, 2006, at 19:45:05
> Hi
> have been taking Nardil for 20+ years - few little diet accidents but generally okay with it.
>
> A big problem I have - I am wondering if this is related to Nardil - is "night eating". Just as I get off to sleep I sudenly feel very hungry and HAVE to eat something. This is not a bad habit bu a sort of compulsion. Anyone else experience this ? Could it be Nardil related or something else ? It really is annoying happens every night and leads to loss of a good nights sleep..Hi,
I've been on Nardil for most of the past ten years. Though I usually don't get up during the night to eat, I get severe carbohydrate cravings in the evening hours. Of course this has lead to large weight gain; at one point more than 110 pounds. I'm down 45 from this all time high but I still fight the carb cravings from Nardil.I've tried many other combinations of meds to try to get off the Nardil, but it is the only thing that works for my treatment resistant atypical depression with social and generalized anxiety. Currently, I am trying a dosage reduction from 90+mg down to 60mg, with hopes of getting to 45mg. I augment with 1mg clonazepam and about ten grams of fish oil daily (1800mg of EPA). My MD is affraid to augment with modafinil, even though I have shown him a lot of evidence that this is safe with Nardil. I am from a small town with very limited access to good PDOCs. The last one I saw for nine months refused to prescribe Nardil, even though it was the only med that has ever worked for me. I really believe he would have rather watched me suicide than risk putting me on a MAOI and have any possible problems come back on him (These kind of PDOCs are just to chicken*hit to handle treatment reistant depression, you have to have a little bit of guts!)
Good Luck,
Jedi
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