NARDIL Reviews (PHENELZINE SULFATE)Average Rating: 4.3 (153 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare NARDIL with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR NARDIL | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | Social Anxiety, dysthymia | severe weight gain due to craving of sweets, extreme narcolepsy like sleepiness in afternoons, sexual inorgasmia, urinary hesitancy | Definitely helped anxiety and depression but not completely but has helped more than SSRIs. I am going to taper off due to weight gain/sleepiness but it was a hard decision. Going to try Parnate instead. Hopefully it won't cause same SEs. Tried Provigil for sleepiness - did not work at all. | F | 35 | 8 weeks | 12/28/2008 | 5 | depression | anorgasmia, orthostatic hypotension, insomnia, hypersomnia, myclonic jerks, constipation, farting, excessive sweating, slow metabolism | worked great after 1 month. side effects almost all gone by 3rd month, except minor constipation and softer-than-before stool and excessive sweating. eating more salt relieves the embarassing sweating. complete success in recovery... combined with modafinil. without modafinil I will usually feel too "tired"/groggy and it blunts my functioning. with it, my appetite is decreased, attention increased. | M | 20 | 4 months | 8/3/2008 | 5 | atypical depression | postural hypotension, anorgasmia and weight gain. Diurnal somnolence at the beginning but improves over time. Insomnia is not as worse, because I'd say is much rather a lessening in the total amount of sleeping time, wich is not always a bad thing. | Side effects apart, the medication is exactly what I needed. I suffered from mild social phobia but severe apathy, anergia, lack of concentration and anhedonia (lack of motivation and unable to enjoy anything). The treatment brought me back to my previous personality, and I have been feeling exactly what I expected for 2 years. The main issue that makes me think about a change is the weight gain. I am wondering to pass to tranylcipromine, but I am not sure about it. Any suggestions? | M | 31 | 2 years | 5/4/2008 | 5 | social anxiety | dry mouth, ejaculatory difficulty at mid to high doseages. | The only medication among about a dozen that I tried that was at all helpful with depression, social and generalized anxiety. Gave me my life back. The dietary restrictions are based on 1940-50's pharmacology and have been updated considerably to the point where only a handful of items need to be avoided. I took this medication for 20 years and only twice had a reaction - once to anchovies and the other to a decongestant. MAOIs (including Nardil) are NOT contradictive with Wellburtin, Lamactil, Dexostat (dexadrine) and many of the medications widely believed to be so. I speak from years of experience. All of the foods I ate and medications I took with Nardil (and later, Parnate and Marplan) were under the direction of doctors and based on my own review of studies. There is absolutely no science-based reason not to eat most of the items on the outdated "do not eat" lists. The Univ. of Toronto (Sunnyside) was a pioneer in researched into MAOIs in the 90's. Their conclusion was | M | 55 | 20 years | 4/18/2008 | 5 | depression | weight gain ,craved surger, wanted to smoke more | Started taking nardil in 1990. It worked great. I was a different person. Life was great. Meet a girl and got married Some time in 2003 it quit working for me I went back being like I use to be. Now my wife and her family don't know me I'm not that person she meet and fell in love with. I went off nardil for a year and went back on But that didn't work. Now I'm taking parnate. but it does't work for me either. At least I had 13 GREAT years.I wish I knew what happened | M | 60 | 13 years | 2/26/2008 | 5 | social anxiety with related depress | anorgasmia, Insomnia, restlessness, daytime fatigue, weight gain, dry mouth, constipation, nicotine craving, hypomania | Nardil Saves lives. People who have crippling anxiety refractory to mainstream meds would do well to consider Nardil. You can expect the listed side effects, but the cost-benefit ratio strongly favours using the medicine. What good are freely flowing bowels and easy orgasm if you're holed up in your room shivering with fear anyways?? Heed the food restrictions! If you would like to contact me, say so in this forum. Cheers! | M | 31 | 7 years | 2/17/2008 | 5 | anxiety depression | constipation sleepiness at beginning but stopped after longer use | Wonderful drug for anxiety and depression. After 24 years on 30mg nardil,Idecided to try an ssri and snri. They didn't work.Starting nardil again in November 2007.Nardil cured me for 24 years, and I pray nardil will begin working again.So sick, without nardil. | F | 59 | 24 days | 11/12/2007 | 5 | Severe Anxiety Depression | None | In 1987 I was in a Anxiety Crushing Suicial Depression. All drug treatments make me sicker by the day. Then I went on NARIL... 3 days later I woke up completely fine! .... It was a life saver for me but unfortunately I only took the drug for 21 days believing I was cured... Big Mistake.... If Nardol works for you stay on it.... It Is a Great Drug for Social Phobia/Anxiety/Depression and may save your life. | M | 55 | 21 days | 10/22/2007 | 3 | pain | F | 34 | 3 months | 9/13/2007 | 5 | Agoraphobia, anxiety, depression | Some weight gain, trouble sleeping. Temporary sexual side effects that went away after about three months. | MAOIs (Nardil and Marplan) really saved my life. Less than a week after I began taking MAOIs in 1989, I was able to leave my home after four years of agoraphobia. Before MAOIs I stuffed myself with Xanax just to get to work. I went off MAOIs for a while when SSRIs hit the market, but Prozac turned me into a pig from hell so I was glad to go back on Nardil. | F | 47 | 17 years | 8/26/2007 | 5 | depression | Some minor gum irritation. I don't know why but I do not seem to suffer from any of the known food interactions (I introduced cheese, wine, etc in small amounts and for the last 5 years I don't even heed the dietary restrictions). | Works fantastic for me. SSRI meds do not work in my system at all and I end up groggy, more depressed, and nauseous. Nardil worked like a charm in only a couple of weeks. However, it did make me a little too euphoric at first (on just 45mg a day). | M | 44 | 12 years | 5/17/2007 | 3 | depression/anxiety/eating disorder | Naridl cuases me to crave nicotine almost insatiably. I go from 2 cigarettes a day to about 2 packs per day. I have never heard of this side effect before _ I'm curious is this happens to anyone else. | I have tried every anti-depressant under the sun but the only yhing that ever works for me is Nardil. It always helps with my depression, eating diorder and anxiety tremendously - BUT then it stops being effective after about 6 months and I have to stop taking it for several months - during which time I fall completely into severe depression. | F | 47 | 25 years | 4/23/2007 | 4 | Depression | On a dosage of 45 mg/day. Constipation during the 1st month. Ejaculatory delay persisted for the whole time I was on Nardil, but gradually diminished as time went on. I also found it to be dose dependent. Sleepiness during the day & sleep onset problems. Twitchy leg spasm mainly at night. Gastric pain on retiring that exacerbated the sleep onset problem. Increased sweating especially during any exertion. | The original Park Davis version of Nardil was excellent. Most of the side-effects that I listed only became a problem when Pfizer took over the manufacture & changed the formulation in 2003. Since then, I noticed that the potency had decreased and I was reluctant to increase the dose as it still made some of the listed side-effects worse. I also became increasingly irritable and was having difficulty concentrating. I am currently withdrawing off Nardil (over the last 2 months) & am down to 15 mg/day. The discontinuation syndrome is hell. I'm not too sure how this new version of Nardil will help people. | M | 48 | 17 years | 4/20/2007 | 5 | Depression and social anxiety | Minor constipation at first. Unfortunately, severe insomnia - I went from someone who slept through the entire night, every night, without a problem, to only being able to sleep 3-4 hours a night. | Nardil is amazing. It completely and totally kicked my depression's ass within about two weeks. My only regret is that I ever wasted time with SSRIs - they were completely useless and ineffective compared to what Nardil has done for me. I can't say enough. I absolutely love this medication. | F | 28 | 1 months | 3/29/2007 | 5 | anxiety, depression | They say Nardil makes you gain weight but I lose weight every time I'm on it. I lose about 10 poundsd, which makes me svelte. The only problem I had was insomnia, which is cured by taking Seroquel (150 milligrams). The other big thing before I forget is a tremor. What on earth do I do when my hands and face are shaking. | what can I do for the shakes? | F | 5 days | 3/26/2007 | 4 | Depression | Low blood pressure when standing or climbing stairs at first, weight gain, lack of energy, hypertension if you make a dietary mistake, dry mouth, constipation, difficulty reaching orgasm | Well, it worked well enough - was suicidal and about to undergo ECT prior, and was able to at function somewhat when on it. Nothing else ever helped, and even this only takes the edge off, but it was enough. The side effects really suck, though. After about five years, not really helping anymore; the withdrawal was horrible - nightmares, nausea, dizzyness - and having my bodily functions return to normal felt really strange and took a couple of weeks to get used to. Worth it if it's your last hope - it works sometimes when nothing else does. | M | 39 | 5 years | 3/20/2007 | 5 | Social Anxiety and depression | Low blood pressure on standing up. Sleeplessness. Better sleep when taking dose before bed. Can eat most foods on the restriction lists, but there are definite MUST NOT eat foods see link http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20010814/msgs/75408.html Some doctors don't like prescribing it due to unjustified fear of side effects so I had a hard time getting it. | Nardil is the only antidepressant/social anxiety drug that has worked for me. After going on the SSRI merri-go-round as well as lithium, tricyclics, mood stablisers, I thought there was nothing out there. Nardil pretty much started working for me after two weeks of 45mg, no suicidal thoughts since being on it, a lot more talkative and less inhibition which helps with my social function. | M | 26 | 2 months | 3/12/2007 | 2 | Panick attacks and depression | None of the spacy feelings I had with ssri's. I felt sleepy during the day and had difficulty sleeping at night. I eat pizza and have the occasional glass of wine with no problem. I developed a sore throat and sinus infection about a month into it and have been extremely fatigued. | Has not helped with mood at all. Anxiety is the same, maybe a little worse. I also take Klonopin for anxiety ( have been on it for years) | M | 39 | 6 weeks | 1/19/2007 | 3 | anxiety | certain food avoidance | M | 45 | | 1/5/2007 | 4 | Bipolar disorder, PTSD | insomnia, postural hypotension (passed out a few times when first starting the drug), loss of sex drive, weight gain, dry mouth. | This is the only antidepressant I've ever been on that has seemed to help. Other antidepressants either didn't work at all, or made me extremely manic. It was a last resort and I'm glad I tried it because it has really helped me. The side effects are hard to deal with sometimes, but it helps and that's what counts. Also, it is very important to follow the diet because I ate the wrong food once and ended up in the ER. | F | 25 | 1 years | 11/1/2006 |