Posted by pulse on June 8, 2006, at 10:06:27
In reply to Re: Emsan-Day 30, posted by cecilia on June 8, 2006, at 9:05:17
i didn't know before reading here that emsam had been tested on this RARE group with depression only. now, i'm suspicious, too, as i've never known, nor even heard, of one single person with only depression.
quite understandibly, with the way you're feeling, you're being pretty hard on yourself re: your personality. you don't state that you've ever been dxed with a personality disorder, however. if, for instance, you did happen to also have borderline pd, i'd strongly suggest therapy, WAY before ANY meds, but only if it was Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.... that's for sure.
i can't relate to sp at all, so can't respond - except to agree that many sp-ers here are seemingly having success with emsam for that. i agree that one can't change their basic nature, but i don't see that sp folks would be considered unlikeable.
yes, emsam has a 1.2 pound per month weight loss. i'm also doing some night-time eating, but mostly just dry cereal - carbs to help a little with the much lesser than before insomnia... that i still have.
another thing as a possibility for your insomnia: did you see the posts talking about releasing - by december - the 1, 3, and 6 mg. doxepin/ sinequan ...just for sleep? i have a compounding pharmacy available and 1 refill left of sinequan, and they've agreed to do (at first) a few 1 mgs. for me. not that any real compounding is necessary, i guess - just extracting an accurate 1 mg. and putting it in a plain capsule. no way i could do that myself - i've sorta tried...no dice. i figure/ hope 1 mg. can't give me constipation and reflux, although with my guts, who knows?
for 25 yrs, all pdocs have really pushed that my mdd was 100% endogenous. my therapist has finally felt it was time that i could accept that, no, quite abit of it is from the fact that i have a severely narcissistic personality disordered father; then, of course, i gravitated to same or similar men in adult life - even when i was SO sure they were the exact 'opposite.'...and not 1 second older than me. so it goes. things are getting better for me re: this bit also. it can be very devastating. out of the 4 clients she has with dad's like mine, i am 1 of 2 who has never made an active suicide attempt.
pulse
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