Posted by Enigma on May 24, 2006, at 10:40:39
In reply to Re: Emsam: aabag, posted by aabag on May 21, 2006, at 13:29:45
> Maybe you can remove the patch in the shower and replace it thereafter? Do you have rashes if you put on a band-aid, i.e. is it a skin thing? I haven't noticed any rashes, other than some slight redness that goes away after certainly less than a day. I generally put the patches on my quads because I just don't notice them there, whereas on my back, the muscles/skin tend to move around and therefore wrinkle up the putch somewhat. As for shaving your quads, bikers do it :)
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> Did any other anti-depressants help you? reason I ask is that they didn't help me, whereas a benzo did, some I'm curious if you fit that profile. As for exhaustion, do you attribute that to lack of restorative sleep?
>In the Emsam documentation, they did mention some percentage of people in the study had "application site reactions". I'm one of those people too now.
No, I don't have any other skin problems, such as rashes from bandaids, medical tape, or anything like that. No excema??, dry skin, etc.
The patches, in just 1 day, are leaving being rashes that take many days to go away. I'm not even sure what to put on them... tried diaper rash (seems to help)...But, I can't put the patch in the same place again for days, or the rash gets really bad so I'm running out of places to put the patch.
Since the 12mg/24h patch is a good amount larger than the 6mg patch, it makes things worse. For now, I'm stuck shaving my quads. :(
It's been 1 month at the 6mg dose, and 1 week+, at the highest dose. I only feel marginally better (which may have nothing to do with the drug), but my mood seems to fluctuate more now, during the same day. I'm even getting angry and irritable again, which was a big problem for me many years ago only.
The fatigue is unbearable, but it's like my mood, and changes during the day, coming and going. I had to take a nap 3-4 days in a row now, when it gets really bad, I could litterally fall down if I didn't run to bed. It's overpowering, like someone slipped some powerful narcotic in my drink.
I'm at a loss.. and no, no other drugs besides nardil have helped my depression. Some made it worse, many game me horrible side-effects.
Nardil is hard to tolerate too, side-effect-wise so I don't want to restart that. It also helped only.. didn't make me 'normal' by any means.I'm not sure if I'm getting poor/non-restorative sleep. I had two sleep studies years ago, and they were unable to determine anything, although they said the results were not 100% normal. That's all I remember.
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