Posted by RobertDavid on March 16, 2006, at 20:05:15
In reply to Re: FDA's decision on EMSAM tomorrow, posted by noordhoff on March 16, 2006, at 13:39:11
My doctor agrees that BMS really needed a new anti depressant to market and EMSAM is it. I feel that's one reason we will probably see it out sooner than later.
To answer your question, though I'm not currently on any anti depressant, none have worked, all side effects no benefit. The only class of anti depressants I haven't tried are MAOI's and I've held out for EMSAM (though am prepared to try others sould I not get a possitive result).
I currently take 2mgs of klonopin which has definately improved my social anxiety, but not depression. And other than an attempt to replace klonopin with Lyrica a few months ago (a failed attempt), it's been pretty much years of mono therapy wth klonopin. If EMSAM works it will either be as a blend with klonopin or hopefully as mono therapy.
I would definately seek your doctors advise for what is an appropriate wash out period switching from Celexa/Lexapro to EMSAM. Even with food restrictions practically out of the picture, drug interactions are a differnt story.
Lastly, I read many posts from a guy named Adam who was posting info to babble way back when he was in one of the initial patch studies around 2000. He had such a positive result to the patch (when nothing else seemed to work) and remember reading his battles that followed after the study ended and when he had to switch to oral selegiline. I wonder how he's doing now and what the approval of EMSAM means to him today. Anybody ever hear from him again? Anyway, I'll post my trial results once I start. It won't be long now....
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