Posted by laima on January 12, 2007, at 15:30:40
In reply to Re: EMSAM Add-ons...Please help with suggestions, posted by RN320 on January 12, 2007, at 14:46:21
Provigel is probably safest in general for most people, but I'm living proof it's not the only stimulant safe to use with Emsam. My doctor and people who share his office do use other stimulants in combination with Emsam with a lot of patients. My doctor is a psychiatry and pharmacology professor, the entire office is faculty and researchers. Decent and respectable credentials. Doses are lower than they would be without the Emsam. A lot depends on patients's compliance reliability, blood pressure and heart-rate, and obviously, the combinations require close monitoring and cannot be recommended for everyone.
> Hi Stargazer-
> THe same thing has happened to me at the 12mg EMSAM. It seems that you get an initial boost and then eventually lose focus. It's still better at the 12mg for me, though. My pdoc says that the only safe stimulant to use with EMSAM is Provigil. I'm supposed to be starting it shortly. ALso, he mentioned Aricept of all things....he said that it's helped cognitive abilities in many non-Alzheimers patients. I'm supposed to start Provigil next week. I've read from others that they use adjunct Adderal and Ritalin, but my pdoc was adamant that they're "expressly contraindicted" in conjunction with EMSAM.
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> Hope that helps, and that you're feeling better soon.
> /m
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