Posted by Ripley Snell on June 9, 2006, at 7:41:39
In reply to EMSAM: Day 33 at 6 mg feeling worse....HELP!:(, posted by alaninla on June 8, 2006, at 9:58:13
Hi. I have manic-depression, so maybe it's all a little different for me. Furthermore, I've been with the same (excellent) pdoc for 14 years, so I get a lot of trust and freedom. He gave me two scripts, one for the 6mg EMSAM patches and one for the 12mg.
I took the 6 mg for two days and got bored. Nothing was happening, and I'm a fast responder. So I started slapping two of the 6mg patches on my legs at the same time . . . hurray! Insomnia the first night, but now much more energy and quite improved mood. Because it's effective, in part, it's triggering some hypomania--yesterday I was in a great bookstore and managed to buy $500 worth of books . . . I'm irritable .. . .I'm talking really fast (just look at the length of this post!) So I'll either have to lower the EMSAM to the 9mg strength or raise my anti-manic drug Seroquel (quetiapine). Always a balancing act, but I like when I'm weighing silver and not iron filings :-)
If you've got the guts and are willing to follow the MAOI diet for a while, try 12mg per 24 hour period. You could get a new prescription or just use two patches.
(This is the telling of an anecdote and is not in any way intended to be medical advice.)
Best wishes, Snell
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