Posted by alaninla on June 8, 2006, at 9:58:13
I don't know if I happened to be on a downswing when I started the patch and the antidepressant effect just hasn't kicked in yet, or if the EMSAM is making me worse. I started with 30 days of 6mg samples from my psychiatrist, and am now at day 3 of my first filled prescription of 30 6mg patches. My psychiatrist wanted to keep me at 6mg until he sees me on June 27th. He said all the trials for EMSAM had been done at 6mg and that the data was encouraging. I now feel like he should have raised me to 9mg or 12 mg at day 30, because I am feeling terrible now. I'm smoking like a crazy (normally 0-4 cigs a day, now a pack a day), my weight is dropping, my appetite is almost non-existent, I feel very fatigued, and my sleep has been awful. I have been on EVERY antidepressant, mood stabalizer, etc. there is in the last 15 years. My only substantial success was on Parnate, but it eventually stopped working. I even underwent ECT treatment at one point--with ZERO results. I'm sorry for rambling on, but I'm new here, and desperate for feedback from other's on EMSAM. Has anyone had to wait 5 weeks or longer to feel results at 6mg??? Has anyone graduated to the 9 or 12 mg patch with positive results after nothing at 6mg? And if so, how many weeks were you on 6mg before having your dosage raised, and when did positive effects kick in at the higher dosage? Thanks.
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