Posted by stargazer2 on June 8, 2007, at 13:00:15
In reply to stargazer2, posted by brooke484 on June 8, 2007, at 8:32:39
Brooke, I had really bad gas in the beginning which has improved, although due to this I started taking fiber twice a day and I think this has helped with the gas. It is one thing after another but I think today I will try 1 pill in the morning, 1 around 4pm and 2 at night, which works to put me to sleep. Equally divides doses are not working very well becasue of the afternoon sleepiness.
You may want to try your entire dose at night or depending on your dose at least half of the total dose at night. I find this minimizes daytime drowsiness if you experience this at all.
I too took the old Nardil but back in 1987, it worked very well and then stopped but I think I should have persisted with it and gone to a higher dose since all the years since, the meds have proven to be rather ineffective for me. Lots of med trials but no real good response like Nardil and Marplan. Marplan was discontinued in 1994 (no reason except poor sales) and I was left high and dry, sort of like with Nardil reformulation. Years since then trying everything without much success so hopefully Nardil will be the one, although Pfizer had to go and get their grimmy little hands on the reliable formula and mess with it. Why are these drug companies allowed to do this when human lives are depending on a drug that works for them! It is unconscionable but we know why it's done, for the almightly dollar, never the patients unless the sales volume justifies ongoing production. Look how they are talking about eliminating Emsam now because of poor sales, not poor patient responses. Dollars win out over a drug's efficacy and use.
Stargazer
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