Is MAO Inhibitor the Most Dangerous Prescribing Drug Alive, Worst Than Heroin?
Sunday, September 19th, 2010 at
9:12 am
LeelaRose asked:
monoamine oxidase inhibitor is a drug given for mood disorders such as depression etc. It is also a drug given for parkinsons disease. however, this drug is last when almost all medications for mood doesn’t work, even tricyclics. My friend is taking insocarboxazaid, known as Marplan (MAO inhibitor) and she cannot eat MOST foods and the diet is very strict. If by accident she ate the wrong food such as cheese, my friend is dead in less than 5 minutes. Because it suddently increases blood pressure to a lethal amount in seconds, causing a heart attack. My friend has to carry a LONG list of foods she cannot eat every time she shops for food. This drug is very very dangerous! how could doctors prescribe these stuff to patients? you would need to have a huge amount of heroin in your body in order to die, besides heroin doesn’t have any lethal effects if combined with ANY food. What is with this drug, it is even worst than ECT shock therapy. I have found a website that shows a bunch of food that cannot be eaten. Does anyone disagree, b/c it MAO inhibitor seems extremely dangerous.
monoamine oxidase inhibitor is a drug given for mood disorders such as depression etc. It is also a drug given for parkinsons disease. however, this drug is last when almost all medications for mood doesn’t work, even tricyclics. My friend is taking insocarboxazaid, known as Marplan (MAO inhibitor) and she cannot eat MOST foods and the diet is very strict. If by accident she ate the wrong food such as cheese, my friend is dead in less than 5 minutes. Because it suddently increases blood pressure to a lethal amount in seconds, causing a heart attack. My friend has to carry a LONG list of foods she cannot eat every time she shops for food. This drug is very very dangerous! how could doctors prescribe these stuff to patients? you would need to have a huge amount of heroin in your body in order to die, besides heroin doesn’t have any lethal effects if combined with ANY food. What is with this drug, it is even worst than ECT shock therapy. I have found a website that shows a bunch of food that cannot be eaten. Does anyone disagree, b/c it MAO inhibitor seems extremely dangerous.
Foods cannot eat–
http://nepenthes.lycaeum.org/Misc/maoi.f…
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if what you say is true, i can’t believe any doctor in their right mind would even consider prescribing that poison.
It should be outlawed at once. And any doctor caught prescribing it should be thrown in prison for attempted murder.
The ONLY instance i could think of deadly side-effects like that being worth the risk is if the patient was already about to die, and the medication was experimental and the last resort.
Given that mood disorders are not fatal, and sometimes not even real, a deadly medicine given as ‘treatment” is pure evil.
Yep, they are some very risky meds and because of that risk of a dangerous reaction with some foods and medications, these drugs are not usually prescribed today unless, as you say, a series of other medications have been already tried and have not helped – SSRIs SNRIs, bupropion, tricyclics…
But MAOIs are still around because they have been successful in treating some types of depression that did not respond to others. And for people suffering from severe major depression that is preventing them from living a normal life, if an MAOI works they find the dietary restrictions and risk worth it to be able to function again. If your friend has been through a long period of this serious illness, it is understandable she may feel willing to try this and hopeful it may help, so DO encourage her to be VERY careful about the food but please don’t try to get her to stop taking her medicine. She probably would not try it if she did not feel desperate for something that would work –being technically alive but in major depression is not really living.
There are also some other ideas that your friend may have tried such as combining another medication with one of the other antidepressants. for example T3 (thyroid med), lithium, or one of the newer anti-psychotics.
Look at studies such as STAR-D for different options.
MAOIs aren’t dangerous, they just have a lot of dangerous interactions. And because you’re clearly ignorant of the reality, I’ll point out that your friend won’t just drop dead if she eats something that’s not approved. The possible side effects are myriad and many of them are life threatening, but some of them are more innocuous like sweating.
It goes without saying that if your friend feels she’d be better off without the drug then she should discontinue its use.