Question by summer18au: Hypertensive crisis in Parnate?
I have been taking parnate a potent anti-depressant at 30mg. When I take it I experience pain in my chest and heart pulpitations. I also have a slight occipital headache (back of head) which is accompanied by paresthesia (this strange tingling feeling all over the back of my head. When I get up I feel extremely dizzy, go almost deaf with ringing in ears, I have difficulty breathing and my neck is sore.
I went to the dr and she said that my blood pressure was normal and heart beating normally (throbbing stopped by the time I reached the dr)
It cant be hypersensitive crisis or urgency characterized by some/ all of these symptoms: “occipital headache which may radiate frontally (must be severe pain – mine isnt), palpitation, neck stiffness or soreness, nausea orphotophobia. Tachycardia and associated constricting chest pain”.
If my symptom are not indicative of hypersensitve as I would have died from Intracranial bleeding are my symptoms just “normal” side effects of the drug?
Hi Desert Lady,
Thank you so much for your advice and link to that website. I take 30 mg a day. The maxium dosage is 60 mg a day. The thing is that I don’t have a severe occipital headache which is the hallmark of hypertensive crisis and I have tingling which is not a symptom of parnate yet my symptoms occur a few moments after I take on the medication and persist for a few hours and then remit so I was thinking maybe they are just normal side effects to be tolerated. I did not think that heart pulpitations are dangerous.
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Answer by Desert Lady
Please read the below link from drugs.com. You’re obviously not experiencing hypertensive crisis. You don’t say how long you’ve been on this particular medication. Some meds take a little time for the body to get used to them. If after a couple weeks you’re still experiencing discomfort that you feel is related to the medication, talk to your doctor about it. There are many anti-depressants to choose from. If you’re taking this for some other condition, there are many other drugs that can be tried if this one doesn’t do what you’re hoping it will.
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