Posted by KimberlyDi on December 16, 2003, at 16:10:19
In reply to Mixing up your med types » psychlover, posted by DSCH on December 15, 2003, at 22:00:37
I transferred the information from the AD's that I've taken, rated those AD's on effectiveness, and color coded the properties. Helps me to see similarities on the ones that worked and the ones that bombed.
Thanks!
KDi in TX> > 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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> > -psychlover
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> You are confusing the tricyclics with the (irreversible) monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
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> 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.
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> Parnate is a MAOI. MAOIs are the meds with the "cheese effect" (and a slew of contraindications with other medications).
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> 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.html
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> And 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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