Posted by laima on July 21, 2006, at 15:39:23
In reply to Re: emsam 6 mg/24 = ? oral selegiline?, posted by SLS on July 9, 2006, at 11:03:49
Here's part of my confusion too- if 20mg is the total amount of the drug in the 6/24 patch, why is that not the dose? Ie., why is the dose not known as "20 mg."? Is it not all absorbed over 24 hours? What's with the "6"? Or is this topic so abstract that only a chemist can understand? I just posted on another message in this thread- I have just been raised to the 9/24 patch, and my doctor told me it's roughly equal to 60-90 mg of the pills and a major step up from the "6" patch. I don't get it. He just got back from an EMSAM conference and expertly went on about EMSAM's superior absorption efficiency... So while I wait for my pharmacy to get the 9's in, I wonder if I can or should cut my 6's in half and wear a 6 plus half of a six to equal 9? I wonder if that would be accurate. Whatever, I'll only have to wait for a day or two for the 9's, so maybe I'll just hold off lest I do something really drastic by accident.
> I think the 20mg refers to the total amount of selegiline contained in the patch.
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