Posted by SFY on June 13, 2006, at 17:53:43
In reply to Re: Emsan-Day 35, posted by cecilia on June 13, 2006, at 0:25:30
> Well, I'm still experimenting-yesterday I cut off half the patch at bedtime and then put on a whole new patch when I got up. The Emsam folks would have a cow if they knew how many of us are experimenting with cutting patches when their drug insert says not to. (Of course I'm sure the main reason they wrote that was because they definitely don't want people saving money by cutting 40 mg patches in half to get a 2 month supply for the price of one.) All the Emsam reps reading this-we're depressed, not dumb!Emsam definitely makes me irritable, but how do you determine if that's an effect of the drug itself or the lack of sleep it causes? Cecilia
According to my pdoc, the drug rep who brought him Emsam specifically told him that it was all right to cut the patches in half.
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