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Re: Emsam at 12 mg

Posted by ZeitGuest on July 4, 2006, at 20:04:49

In reply to Re: Emsam at 12 mg » Jakeman, posted by Donna Louise on July 4, 2006, at 6:24:52

> jake is right, Steve. I don't know if anyone is using just the patch. It is taking a village, so to speak. I am on the 12mg now too and now things are starting to look up. It may just be that is what some of us need and it takes awhile to really work. Hang in there, we are supposed to give these things many weeks to work, starting over on the timeline with each dose increase. We are lucky if we feel results sooner.
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> donna

I'm one of those few people just using the patch with no side dishes (apart from a few aborted attempts to take a low dose of Klonopin, which made me feel drowsy and stupid).

I've been using Emsam for 8-1/2 weeks (six weeks at 6mg; two weeks at 9mg; four days at 12mg), and it's just not working very well for me. The agitiation is somewhat lessened at the higher doses (MAO-A inhibition boosting my serotonin levels?), but not by very much. The AD effect is, well, maddeningly SUBTLE, if it's there at all -- no sun-suddenly-breaking-through-the-clouds moment for me thus far. Most disappointingly, the patch has had no effect on my social anxiety. I was hoping for an effect akin to Nardil without the side effects, but no dice.

If nothing changes at the 10-week mark, I'll be de-patching and heading back to the drawing board. In the meantime, I'll be prowling this board probably too obsessively, looking for a preponderance of anecdotal evidence to support my next game of meds roulette... Will it be Lamictal? Big bad Nardil? What's up with that D-Cycloserine stuff? (Michael Bell, please report in.) Or will it be back to Prozac in the hope that our four-month vacation apart will make us feel like newlyweds again?


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