Has anyone here ever used or heard of the new maoi patch? They have used this medicine in the pill form before but you had to watch what you ate; With this new patch, there are no restrictions. I was wondering if anyone has used it and if it helps with depression and has any side effects.

Excuse me if this is entered incorrectly; I'm new. I tried the MAO patch as well as the pills. The pills were like magic and I never felt better but after some years they stopped working. I've tried almost everything else in between. Then came the MAO patch. I tried it but it didn't work for me. Not like the pills. I got so depresed in between switching (you still have to wait 2 weeks before using another med and the patch) that I had to be in the hospital.

It might work for you and I hope it does but I didn't realise there were no food restrictions with the patch; I thought there were.

Good luck to you in any case!

Sparkles

I have not tried the MAO patch but was planning on asking my doc about it till I looked it up and discovered it is a NONreversible
MAOI and although the food is not an problem with this, the problem of general anesthesia and some other drugs IS a problem.
I have been on the Canada maoi/maclobemide for 12 years with NO side effects except to have to postpone a gall bladder surgery by 2 days for it to clear my system. That is my biggest concern about my canada drug is that i'll need some kind
of emergency something or other and then what do i do?? However, with the patch or the nardil/parnate kind of drugs you're
looking at 2 weeks before it clears your system. That also, means if you wanted to change from that to a diff. type of AD.
At least I only have to wait 2 days to switch and for it to clear my system, not 14 days or more......I would reccommend
this drug if you can get it. I buy it direct from Canada and it costs abot $45month. It is not covered by my insurance because it is not FDA approved in the U.S........I still do take tegretol with it and after 12 years may be looking at adding lithium.....but
heck, if it works, that's all i care about, not the number of pills. Unfortunately, it is hard to be balanced on just one pill......

sonneegirl

You definitely DO have to watch what you eat on the 9mg and 12 mg patches! I almost went to the ER because of increase in BP. Just kept monitoring it and it was okay. Was on 9mg patch and switched back to 6mg patch 12 days earlier then had some cheddar cheese, and some bacon, then went home and had brownies (very bad idea!). No restrictions are for 6 mg patch. My doc said he had never heard of a problem on the higher patches, but he didn't know for sure! And it does take quite a while to be eliminated from your system!
It does help, though in the beginning the emotional aspects increased before they decreased!
lots of luck!

I have tried every other ad out there. Either they didn't work or the side effects were too horrible. I don't know what else to try. I would only be interested in the 6 mg because of the dietary restrictions. I tried Nardil before and ended up in ER 3 times due to horrific headaches. Don't want to go down that road again.

I tried the patch last year (the cymbalta withdrawal was pure hell)
It didn't really do anything for me except leave a bad rash whereever I put it
So I just stopped.
I went without any AD's for about 3 months
but realized I needed an AD
funny I don't even remember which one I went back on
I've been thru so many

Thats funny I tried the MAOI(nardil) pills as well and after about a year it stopped working, that is after none of the reputake inhabitor meds worked. I would definitely take em again even risking the ER if there was a chance they could work, nothing hits as hard as bad depression.

This post has been edited by Starsky: Oct 22 2007, 11:14 PM

Hi!
Were you on the cymbalta and then went to the patch? What is the name of the patch?

Hope all is well now.

Jennifer 1

Hi!

What is the name of the new patch and what were the name of the pills. I see my dr tomorrow and I am looking for a new drug.

Jennifer 1

Nardil and Parnate are the two most common MAOI's. Try googling 'MAOI patch' and you'll probably find the brand name of the patch somewhere.

PLEASE note the side effects of the MAOI's listed here, and definitely be VERY AWARE of the restrictions before you start taking them. I just want everyone to be aware and careful! Best of luck to everyone!