Mental Health anti depressant treatment sabotage ?

[Way|0st]

hey guys i'm currently on nardil (mao inhibitor) for bi polar stuff

this drug is kinda dangerous as to the strict diet and other drugs ya shouldn't mess with.

so far no drugs have helped my mental health (cept xanax for anxiety, duh)

but lately at least nardil has me sleeping like 13 hrs a day which was better than getting like 4 hours a night. but i have been messing with like 2 mgs suboxen and some coke a couple times a week which can be dangerous too due to serotonin syndrome. i wish i was giving this drug a better try so i could know if it will actually work. anybody been down this path ? had some neck pain (side affect) which has passed but still a lot of sleeping...is this still ok and/or helping?

 

[realtalkloc]

No antidepressant will ever work for you as long as you keep indulging in coke. Coke makes people bipolar and you're expecting to get healthy? Most doctors will tell you that you are not serious about getting better. It's your life but let me tell you one thing, nothing is better than getting healthy.

 

[keeping]

yeah, real talk, uppers are the last thing you need.

 

[paranoid android]

Do not take Coke with a irreversible non selective MAOI like Nardil as that is a absolute contradiction. Not only can you have Serotonin syndrome but you can also have hypertensive crises leading to a stroke due to a increase in Norepinephrine.

Nardil like many of the older MAOI's often help depression including Bipolar depression when nothing else does. Nardil causes a increase in the levels of the neurotransmitters Serotonin, Norepinephrine, Dopamine and in a more indirect way Gaba. For some people it is stimulating for others it is sedating. Parnate tends to be more stimulating then Nardil and one of it's metabolites is Methamphetamine i believe.

Now Nardil is all well and fine for treating the Depression part of Bipolar but are you on any mood stabilizers to control the Manic part and the mood swings?