Posted by cecilia on June 8, 2006, at 6:21:09
In reply to Re: Emsan-Day 30, posted by cecilia on June 8, 2006, at 3:18:21
Also re taking the patch off at night, someone asked in another thread if due to the med's short half life, wouldn't this be like starting from scratch every morning instead of building up to a therapeutic level? I wondered about that too. Though it can't really have that short a half life, because the 9mg/24 hr package insert says to wait 2 weeks after stopping the med before resuming a normal diet. Surely it would take much less time than that to get blood levels down equivalent to the 6mg/24hr. dose, but I suppose the FDA is just being conservative.
Also, anyone else have the dry eye problem? I hate it. I'm using Thera-tears eye drops many time a day.
Anyway tomorrow (well technically today as it's 4 am), up to the 9mg patch. If I can't stand it I can always trim it. That still seems better than having none in your system for such a long time every night. Maybe I could try that once after a few days on the bigger patch, though It's not like I'm going to fall asleep as soon as I rip off the patch, I still lie awake for many hours when the only psych meds I'm taking are sleeping pills and clonazepam, no AD's. It seems like you'd have to rip it off hours before bedtime for the lower level to have even the slightest effect on your sleep. Cecilia
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