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 |
| 5 | depression | none | why are doctors not prescribing this more. saved my life. | M | 33 | 4 years 60 1X day | 11/12/2011 | 5 | Anxiety and severe depression | It's been so many years taking Nardil I believe there were no side effects. | Nardil was the drug of choice by doctors during WW1. Soldiers riddled with fear couldn't return to the battle field.. The drug gave instant relief of fear. Nardil should be taken with a benzo. to stablize chemical imbalance. | F | 65 | 40 years 15 4X day | 11/3/2011 | 5 | Depression | extreme constipation | Nardil may have saved my life. I was extremely depressed and suicidal. After 4 weeks on the drug and the addition of abilify, I have zero thoughts of self harm and can engage better with others. I have taken ssris and snris for years with very little results. | F | 29 | 7 weeks 15 mg 4X day | 9/9/2011 | 5 | Depression | One bad episode eating non-pasteurized cheese. BP to 220. Nothing else. I drink wine, eat chocolate and just about everything else on the warning list. | When my doctor put me on Nardil the day before I had been sitting in the batroom with a 357 in my mouth. Seeing the doc was my last chance. The drug gave me a complete recovery.It took two weeks. From that day on I married, had a family and built a very lucrative business. With all the potential side effects it is worth it as I was 24 hours from eating a 357 magnum.I am now doing public speaking and wowing the crowds. If they only knew my secret. | M | 51 | 25 years 60 MG 2X day | 8/22/2011 | 1 | DEATH (friend of mine made a suicide after a year on this drug he couldn't stand side-effects anymore). | THIS IS BAD, OLD AND DANGEROUS DRUG. The ratings with this drug (as with many psych drugs) is WRONG. Psychiatry is full of lies and don't blindly trust anything you read from internet. | M | 30 | 1X day | 7/22/2011 | 5 | Depression, Social anxiety disorder | None | Stopped taking pristiq and started Nardil 7 days later. I didn't sleep the first night, but wasn't even tired the next day. I feel amazing and have to constantly ask the people closest to me if I seem manic because I feel so good but feel extra talkative. For the first time in my life (without benzo's) I have absolutely no social anxiety. Life just seems amazing now. I was taking Nardil last year at the same time as a strong painkiller and always looked off my face, and had postural hypotension to the point where I kept waking up in cake, on the floor etc. This time around, minus said painkiller, I am experiencing no side effects whatsoever. Unless the joy for life I have really is mania or true euphoria, in which case I welcome it. I am going to tell my doctor to stop prescribing other ad's as this is the only he should really ever use. I've tried everything and this is the only drug where I have seen a noticeable difference. It felt like waking up from a nightmare. The relief is amazing and I truly believe this medication is a godsend. I'm not even sure it has had time to even kick in but if it gets any better they will have to start calling it ecstacy. | M | 27 | 2 weeks 90mg 3X day | 7/6/2011 | 1 | Depression | loss of affect, sleeping constantly, sensation of electrical shock, tardive dyskenesia. | I stopped taking it when my arm began swinging out without volition, and the symptoms stopped. | F | 60 | 60 days 1X day | 6/27/2011 | 5 | Treatment Resistant Depression | Mid afternoon sleepiness, weight gain, insomnia, orthostatic hypotension | This drug saved my life not once, but twice - and I mean literally. Without this drug, I may have ended up an ECT victim or ending my own life. In 10 years, the MAOI drugs (Parnate, and Nardil) are the only things that have touched my depression. I went off Nardil before due to the weight gain - if this happens to you, I strongly advise you don't do what I did and stop taking it. I am just fortunate it has worked for me again. I tried every SSRI on the market, Effexor, Wellbutrin, Remeron, Lithium, Lamictal - nothing has worked as well as this drug which has relieved most of my severe, treatment-resistant depression and anxiety. It makes me feel normal, feel like engaging in meaningful activity, and returning to work eventually. If you've tried modern antidepressants and they haven't helped, or haven't helped enough, you owe it to yourself to give Nardil or Parnate a try. (I had to stop Parnate because it ended up making me hypomanic - but Parnate had similar efficacy without the weight gain, not QUITE as good for anxiety.) | M | 29 | 2 weeks 30 2X day | 6/15/2011 | 5 | Major Depression, Suicidal Ideation | postural hypotension, insomnia, extreme fatigue, daytime narcolepsy, constipation, weight gain, temporary impotence, difficulty concentrating, and much more! | Thanks to this rating site and many other online message boards, I decided to try nardil after failing a couple reuptake inhibitors. I had just transferred to a university and the drug trials were profoundly ruining my life for a year. There is no other way to explain the experience other than mental torture. Nardil saved me. The only reason I had almost every side effect to extreme degrees was because I increased to 90mg/day after only 1 week at a lower dose. Had I known the intensity of side effects it would bring on at that rate, I would have been more patient in reaching my appropriate dose. Most of the side effects subsided after 6-8 weeks. | M | 23 | 6 months 30 mg 3X day | 6/7/2011 | 4 | Anxiety, Depression, OCD | Weight gain, trouble sleeping, sweating, snoring, alternating diarrhea and constipation, flatulence. | Since childhood I have taken over 20 medications for my condition, and Nardil is the best treatment. The positive changes it produces often seem lacking or insignificant, but in truth the changes are profound and mean the difference between being hospitalized and having some quality of life. | M | 26 | 11 months 120 MG 1X day | 3/21/2011 | 5 | Depression and Anxiety | Insomnia,some difficulty sexually peaking. | After trying 10-15 anti-depressants in 12 years, Nardil is The Only Medicine that not only eliminated my depression (crossing my fingers!) but doesn't make me feel like an anxious situation will completely take over my mind and body. I HAD INSOMNIA IN THE BEGINNING- SO FAR THIS HAS WORKED FOR WONDERFULLY: I'll wake up @ 1 a.m., TAKE 45 MG. OF PHENELZINE, AND GO RIGHT BACK TO SLEEP! THEN I TAKE THE REMAINING 15 MG. BEFORE 12 A.M. I DON'T HAVE PROBLEMS SLEEPING ANYMORE! | F | 41 | 80 days 60 MG 1X day | 3/19/2011 | 4 | Treatment resistant depression | Delayed ejaculation, mild erection problems, sleep disturbance, strange ringing in ear when standing (not the normal type), constipation, narcolepsy type sleepiness in the day at times, memory issues, weight gain (about 20% of my weight), some carb cravings. | I tried about a dozen different drugs which had little to no effect. Nardil was the first thing that worked. I'm not 100% on Nardil, but very significantly better - I can function something close to normal most of the time. The side effects are worse at the beginning as you'd expect, but they do see to increase in intensity time to time in waves - I'll have a few weeks of bad side effects then a few months of mild. Overall, you'd have to pry it out of my cold dead hands. After years of ineffective drugs, despite the side effects sucking, I can function. | M | 40 | 2 years 60mg 1X day | 2/6/2011 | 4 | Depression, anxiety | Difficulty achieving erection, inorgasmia, occasional down periods, daytime fatigue and sleepiness. | Only antidepressant out of thirteen over a 15 year period that has actually provided sustained results. While there are still the occasional down days, I no longer have major depressive episodes. I do often have ADD-like symptoms, but never hypomania, and since I concurrently take 200mg daily of Provigil, the cause has not been attributed to one or the other drugs, or is perhaps a combination of the two. I would like to comment on the diet restrictions: Being the personality type that has to push the boundaries in order to know the playing field, as it were, upon initially taking Nardil I consumed foods from the restricted list, slowly at first until there were no restricted that I don't consume freely. In four years I have had one hypertensive event where I asked my wife to drive me to the ER when my BP meter indicated a BP of 180 over 250. Upon arrival, my BP was normal. I had been told that in an MAOI related crisis, my BP would not have returned to normal this quickly or without intervention. Was it the Nardil? No one knows, although an hour before checking my BP at home I had consumed nearly 8oz of Societe Roquefort cheese and nearly the same quantity of dry spicy Italian salami, so it is probable. My psch doctor and everything I've read had prepared me for specific symptoms that included being nauseous or vomiting, severe headache, etc. The only symptom that signaled concern was an odd feeling that I hadn't experienced before which made me think to check my BP | M | 62 | 4 years 45mg 1X day | 1/2/2011 | 5 | anxiety and depression | I was on nardil for 18 years, this fall I started to have some anxiety. My Doc. took me off of the nardil and we have tried so many different drugs and nothing has worked. If I were to go back on the nardil would it work for me again. | F | 63 | 18 years 45 mg 3X day | 12/31/2010 | 5 | severe anxiety | cant orgasm, insomnia, diet restrictions | Why are doctors not using this MIRACLE DRUG more often? I AM CURED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | M | 44 | 7 years 45 mg 1X day | 12/29/2010 | 1 | Depression | DEATH - my friend died from this drug. | My friend was taking Nardil for depression. She had an allergy and took half an antihistamine. Her blood pressure shot up, she got a cerebral hemorrhage and died after being in a coma for 2 weeks. This drug is VERY DANGEROUS and should not be prescribed to anyone. | F | 32 | 2 years 15 4X day | 10/31/2010 | 5 | social anxiety | insomnia,lack of libido,headaches,tremor-all gone now and probably went after i was slowly increased to 45mg a day | an excellent drug for social anxiety-when you first take it you are invincible,have verbal diohrea,can talk to strangers about anything(nardil nonsense!)nothing phases you. this eurphoric stage last a few weeks and then you mellow out to a normal stage where the drug just does its job and side effects are then minimal-i have had no issues with any food-i drink alcohol,eat pepperoni,mature cheese in moderation,dont be put off by these very outdated food restrictions | M | 45 | 2 years 15mg 3X day | 10/13/2010 | 5 | Bipolar 2 & Social Anxiety | Insomnia, constipation, low blood pressure, lower libido, in past 5 years, due to Nardil causing high adrenaline levels, blood pressure would spike high after evening dose; that is under control now. | To date, Nardil is the only anti-depressant I can take. I have tried many others and am treatment resistant. Nardil has been a life saver for me in spite of some of the side effects. | F | 45 | 19 years 30.7 1X day | 9/20/2010 | 5 | bi-polar depression | lack of sleep and rem sleep, headaches | this drug saved my life. i was suicidal and i came out of it in three days with a 15mg dose increase. i was out of all options. even more effective then the ect treatments. The only major stressor is the lack of sleep. But I hope to reduce my dose to a maintenance dose soon. Meanwhile, I am living again and in peace. | F | 42 | 1 days 90 mg 1X day | 8/21/2010 | 5 | Treatment Resistant Depression, GAD | Excessive sweating, carb cravings | After two years of trying every anti-depressant known to man, my P-Doc mentioned MAOI's as a last resort. He said they were not prescribed often because of the dietary restrictions, but I was desperate for relief. Nardil has been a wonder drug and a savior-My anhedonia has been replaced by motivation and enjoyment and I don't need Klonopin to battle anxiety. The dietary restrictions are so minimal I can't believe that anyone with depression would not make the trade-off. Full relief in exchange for no aged cheese, pepperoni and soy sauce is a no-brainer in my book. I can't recommend this medicine enough. | M | 55 | 1.5 months 60mg 1X day | 8/13/2010 |