Posted by med_empowered on December 6, 2006, at 12:09:18
In reply to Re: Anyone tried oral selegiline? » RN320, posted by laima on December 6, 2006, at 9:43:12
I think the appeal of EMSAM is 1) its new 2) its super-high tech and 3) it (largely) by-passes traditional MAOI diet restrictions. That said..oral selegiline is a pretty standard treatment for Alzheimer's, so I don't think that the problem is that oral doses dont work or can't work as well as the patch; the problem is that higher oral dosages will require the MAOI diet, and the MAOI diet is a pretty scary thing.
This may sound stupid but...wouldn't homemade transdermal selegiline be possible? I remember reading that some chemist somewhere had made a xanax hand lotion that helped anxiety, but largely prevented tolerance/addiction. Instead of a patch, couldn't one use a gel/cream ? I'm not encouraging experimentation, but it seems that you'd just need selegiline, alcohol, and maybe propeylene glycol or glycerin.
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