Posted by mayzee on July 31, 2006, at 10:49:38
In reply to Re: What would you do? EMSAM » mayzee, posted by Jost on July 30, 2006, at 21:02:13
> Well, I personally, would stick the with emsam, maybe trying taking it off for a while during the day, or at night--
Yeah, I haven't tried removing the patch part of the time yet. So far I've always left it on 24 hrs. So that is something to try.
> What was your blood pressure?
Last Tuesday the doctor measured me at 80/60. Today at Walmart my reading was 80/42. I've felt so crummy that I backed down to 6mg yesterday & today to see if I can get some relief.> Maybe you'll accommodate. I could be wrong, but I can't imagine a few weeks of low blood pressure would hurt you, unless there's some special reason.
I was really hoping that this side effect would go away or ease up too. I'd been at 9mg for 20 days. Not sure how long it might take to ease up.
> Are you sleeping okay? Because maybe there are contributing factors to your being so exhausted? (Just hoping.)
No, my sleep has been disrupted ever since starting Emsam. And I had also been very fatigued. (With the exception of those 3 days at 9mg & 1 day at 6mg) Fatigue has always been one of my biggest issues with my depression anyway. BUt I really notice a difference in the fatigue I felt at 6mg and the fatigue I've felt since having the low bp symptoms; it's worse. But my pdoc did just give me a script for klonopin so I can try that for the sleep problems.
> I noticed that you hadn't tried Parnate or Nardil. How about one of them? The Maoi thing really isn't that bad, you just have to get used to a few restrictions, like soy sauce, aged cheese, etc, and not using certain decongestants, and demerol--the drug restrictions are the same with emsam, I think.
>I agree, and think if I really want to do that I'd have to get a different pdoc. She really wants my next trial to be a tricyclic. I guess since she's more familiar with them. Since I've never tried them, I guess that would be OK too.
It's hard for me to say that I responded to Emsam, since I really only had that 3-day stretch out of 71 days so far.
Thank you so much for your suggestions. I really appreciate it!
mayzee
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