For about a month now I have been having funky allergic-type reactions to a whole new set of foods that never bothered me before. It has been very frustrating because I never knew what would set it off. Well, I have figured it out! It's the Parnate.
Parnate is an older type of anti-depressant, an MAOI. I was on a high dose, 60 to 80 mg, for over a year. Parnate has a lot of drug and food interactions. Everything I have been reacting to this past month is on the list of things to avoid with Parnate. Aged meats, bananas, chocolate, soy sauce -- all have given me reactions.
It is quite a relief to have an explanation for what is happening. And it is good to know that it is not really allergies. So now I have a list of foods and drugs to avoid, and hopefully things will calm down around here.
I have been on Empowerplus for 17 months, and it is pretty wild to consider that old drugs are STILL releasing in sufficient quantities to be giving me reactions like this. And really, this is a new situation, it seems like the Parnate is just now starting to release. It's kind of strange to have all these time bombs ticking away inside me. But, now that the problem is identified, it will be easy to deal with.