Posted by RobertDavid on February 27, 2006, at 23:15:31
In reply to Re: FDA's decision on EMSAM tomorrow » RobertDavid, posted by Jakeman on February 27, 2006, at 20:48:17
Jake:
There's lots of posts on EMSAM that have links to studies, lots of info. You can also just do a web search on EMSAM and find info.
That said, If I was to put what I've read in a nut shell, the patch delivery seems to reduce if not eliminate the dietary restrictions (particularly at the 20mg patch dose).
In addition, it may work much faster, perhaps results in one week. Side effects such as weight gain and libido problems may be less.
And most importantly it appears it just may be more effective for not only depression, but anxiety as well compared to oral selegiline.
But like most drugs, different people will have different responses. The whole concept of an MAOI not going through the gut and directly to the blood makes sense to me.
Some have suggested that you just can't compare oral selegiline to the patch delivery. Should be interesting. I wonder why patch delivery of Nardil and Parnate are not in the works......
poster:RobertDavid
thread:613836
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20060227/msgs/614096.html