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Re: Emsan-Day 34 » Last Chance

Posted by Donna Louise on June 12, 2006, at 20:49:16

In reply to Re: Emsan-Day 34 » cecilia, posted by Last Chance on June 12, 2006, at 11:03:56

> Cecilia - this is day 16? for me - I am having mixed and interesting results. I have been trying different dosing - it seems like really powerful stuff and at this time I cannot forsee taking more than the 20 but who knows. I have tried half patch 24 hrs - full patch 24 hrs., impossible to sleep - other combos. Now for 2 days I have been cutting a third off, putting the 2/3 on one side of my chest just below the collar bone, and the other 1/3 on opposite side. About 3 hrs. before I go to bed I remove the 2/3 and leave the 1/3 on overnight. Both nights I have slept about seven hrs., 6 without waking up - usually an impossibility for me. Good effects so far - I do feel a slight lessening of depression. It doesn't take me hrs. to wake up in the morning and I still have an expresso right away and another in the afternoon - addicted to coffee. I definitely have more focus to complete tasks, even starting them - that also has been next to impossible. More social, conversational, but with anxiety. Worst thing - I have these periods of being highly irritable - cat meows and I want to kill her. This jumpy, extremely negative anxiety has happened several times, and that is kind of scary. Road rage at that time would be really bad. Dry eyes, but not so bad that I have done anything about it. I take .25 Klonapin in the morning and evening. So I will keep trying this method for awhile and see if I stable out. Slight rise in blood pressure, also. So not bad enough to quit, and not good enough to feel like I have found the one. Richard

That is my chief complaint to, the hyper, jumpy easily agitated irritability. The thing is, I have this without medicine so I can't blame the patch, I think since it doesn't numb me out like the other drugs do, I still have my emotions. I just don't like this one at all. I have lost track how long I have been on. I think 4 weeks at 6mg and 2 weeks at 9mg. I forget about food restrictions so I haven't followed any diet although I don't eat much of anything on the bad food list anyway. I felt like I was still depressed on 6mg and I feel better on 9. I don't feel as wonderful as I did the first couple of weeks but I always feel wonderful when I first go off a drug and I had just gotten off effexor. Overall though, I love having some energy, and it is helping with both the depression and anxiety, I like it better than other all the others. I also continue to take klonopin and provigil as I think they help too. But sometimes I feel afraid and desperate because I expected to feel 100% and I don't. I see the pdoc Wed. I wonder if she is thinking lamictal like I am.

Donna


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