Psycho-Babble Medication Thread 1097339

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MAOI+trazodone=compulsive drinking smoking spendin

Posted by porkpiehat on March 15, 2018, at 14:03:54

I was about to post that both Parnate and Marplan had made me into compulsively drinking, smoking, and spending introvert, with bouts of paranoia.

For the past 2.5 months I have felt out of control. I couldn't imagine not drinking and smoking a pack of cigarettes after work; or not spending every free moment preparing for a fishing trip or actually fishing. Withdrawn from friends and familiy. Feeling like people were nothing more than props in my life.

I figured I was suffering a hypomania or compulsiveness caused from dopamine stimulation from the MAOI, but I wasn't ready to give up on the benefits.

On a hunch I stopped taking the trazodone at night for sleep (it was very hard to wake up and I remember it had always caused me mid-day agitation). Since doing so the compulsive behavior and seething irritability are gone. I would rather come home and rest after work than go to the bar. I am going to stay home this weekend and do my taxes instead of driving alone 4 hours for a weekend of fishing.

HOWEVER, I am noticing a return to anxiety, mostly social, and difficulty concentrating. I wonder if there is some property of trazodone that I can satisfy in another med without causing the compulsiveness and agitation. I suspect the side effects were either from partial agonism of the 5ht1a site (buspar, viibryd, brintellix all gave me a similar detatched or irritable effect) or from the mcpp metabolite which is a messy releaser of neurotransmitters.

I'm guessing the benefits were a result of the NE alpha antagonism and/or the antagonism of 5ht2.

Nortriptyline would seem to be the best add on, but I typically don't respond well to NERInhibition.

thanks for any thoughts

replaced traz with Nortrip and cannot sleep

Posted by porkpiehat on March 19, 2018, at 11:26:17

In reply to MAOI+trazodone=compulsive drinking smoking spendin, posted by porkpiehat on March 15, 2018, at 14:03:54

> I was about to post that both Parnate and Marplan had made me into compulsively drinking, smoking, and spending introvert, with bouts of paranoia.
>
> For the past 2.5 months I have felt out of control. I couldn't imagine not drinking and smoking a pack of cigarettes after work; or not spending every free moment preparing for a fishing trip or actually fishing. Withdrawn from friends and familiy. Feeling like people were nothing more than props in my life.
>
> I figured I was suffering a hypomania or compulsiveness caused from dopamine stimulation from the MAOI, but I wasn't ready to give up on the benefits.
>
> On a hunch I stopped taking the trazodone at night for sleep (it was very hard to wake up and I remember it had always caused me mid-day agitation). Since doing so the compulsive behavior and seething irritability are gone. I would rather come home and rest after work than go to the bar. I am going to stay home this weekend and do my taxes instead of driving alone 4 hours for a weekend of fishing.
>
> HOWEVER, I am noticing a return to anxiety, mostly social, and difficulty concentrating. I wonder if there is some property of trazodone that I can satisfy in another med without causing the compulsiveness and agitation. I suspect the side effects were either from partial agonism of the 5ht1a site (buspar, viibryd, brintellix all gave me a similar detatched or irritable effect) or from the mcpp metabolite which is a messy releaser of neurotransmitters.
>
> I'm guessing the benefits were a result of the NE alpha antagonism and/or the antagonism of 5ht2.
>
> Nortriptyline would seem to be the best add on, but I typically don't respond well to NERInhibition.
>
> thanks for any thoughts

follow up...tried nortriptyline and it has handled the concentration, mood, anxiety issues that came when I dropped trazodone, but the NE makes me way too hyperfocused to sleep. Anything that will block this function (other than trazodone lol)?

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