Posted by crabwalk on May 27, 2006, at 11:44:25
In reply to Re: Who's having luck with EMSAM? » RobertDavid, posted by Donna Louise on May 27, 2006, at 6:44:24
I've had a bit of a roller coaster ride so far on emsam. My situation is unique: I decided to try emsam to see if it would reverse the damage that ssris did to me. I quit them over a year ago and the sexual numbness and dysfunction that they caused never went away. This along with some traumatically bad reactions to other drugs that I tried to reverse the problem (buspar, tianeptine) has really caused some damage to my psyche. So far I haven't had the benefit I had hoped for, but I will wait another couple weeks at least.
At first, emsam made me incredibly anxious, then incredibly depressed and fatigued, very intense for about 2 weeks. Now it's hard to say what it's doing. The biggest problem for me is that I couldn't sleep at all before, and still can't now, i average maybe 4 hours a night with ambien. If I could sleep I would probably be feeling a lot better. Unfortunately I don't think I will ever consider myself happy unless I get my ability to feel emotions and sexual pleasure back the way they were before ssris killed them. That is THE confounding factor in my battle, and no one can really say when/if/how that factor can be addressed, so I am and have been indefinitely stuck like this.
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