[Butterflyna]

Has anyone or is anyone on Parnate and had/have really bad sleep problems. I know it is a side effect but i am finding myself not able to sleep at all unless i take like 4 Rivotril, which I only use for my Anxiety occasionally. I lay awake even 12 13 hours after I've taken Parnate and I still can't sleep. Anyone? PLEASE HELP!!!!

[missliz]

Everybody has this while they acclimate to Parnate. Or even longer. But you're on the right one- Nardil makes your liver turn everything you eat into sugar. Makes you fat, and probably eventually diabetic.
Two things that help me- working out will make the body tired enough tosleepand it helps. But if you don't sleep, adjust the excercise schedule. The sleep is recovery time for your muscles.
Also fiddling with the dose helps. Four tabs a day was a disaster for my sleep, three and I started to slide into the pit a bit. I now alternate doses every day, three and four tabs.

When I first started Parnate years ago I was told this could be a problem for awhile. I don't know what that drug is you're taking, but does Dr Psych know you take that much? There's a lot of strange myth around Parnate in the USA, but I talked to an Australian neuropsychopharmacologist and added a scooch of nortryptiline and that helped. <www.psychotropical.com> He'll talk to you on Skype about drugs, he's retired and gets bored. But read the site, docs in the rest of the world use MAOIs all the time. They work.
Dose adjustments with Parnate are normal. Just communicate with your doctor about it. They like that. Desyryl works for some people. I use Trileptil as a mood stabilizer and it helps. I had to raise the dose a smidge.
And unfortunately, you have to choose at a certain point- ride the waves of your brain on Parnate but be in complete recession, or take a crummy nonworking thing like Paxil and still be depressed. And at least Parnate kills phobias. This is an illness, and there are worse ones you could have...
Are you just not sleeping? Or running on the 36 hour clock? A lot of depressives are a variant of bipolar and are just set for a different time cycle than the average 24 hr person. Understanding how your clock runs is helpfull.
Last but not least- now that your illness is in recession you may just be an insomniac. Separate problem uncovered by health. They think that may be my problem. Google it up and try the simpler sleep hygeine things.
Bonne chance!

[missliz]

You say you lie awake for 13, 14 hours after taking Parnate. Are you taking it at bedtime??? Who told you to do that?
NEVER take Parnate past noon! It's a morning med if ever there was one. Earlier the better. I find my Parnies and a big cup of French Roast is a jet fueled way to start the day. Although the first six months you want to just give up caffeine, it's too much...