Posted by JaclinHyde on April 8, 2006, at 23:48:22
In reply to Re: off Parnate for surgery and MISERABLE, posted by cecilia on April 8, 2006, at 21:17:05
You took the words right out of my mouth! I had surgery (major) and was on Marplan at the time (which worked magic for me, btw.) The anesthesiologist said it was ok to stay on it, that there are so many different drugs that they can use to put you out. I came through it with flying colors...and not depressed or miserable cause I stayed on my MAOI. Check with your doc again. Hmmmm....let me do some googling for you.
JH
> Merci, see if you can talk to your anesthesiologist. I recently went off Marplan for surgery, the Marplan had no benefit so I was planning to go off it anyway, but later I talked to an anesthesiologist who was surprised that I'd been told me to go off it. She said that the latest thinking was NOT to have patients go off their MAOI's, just for them (the anesthesiologists) to be careful which meds they use during surgery. Obviously, if you were in a major accident they'd HAVE to do surgery whether you were on a MAOI or not, they'd just have to be more careful, so it CAN be done. Since the Marplan was useless it wasn't an issue for me, except that I might have been able to get my surgery done earlier if they hadn't told me to go off. But for a patient who is helped by a MAOI to be told to go off can be dangerous, see if you can find an anesthesiologist with up to date thinking. Cecilia
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