Posted by yesac on December 6, 2006, at 12:24:00
In reply to Re: Anyone tried oral selegiline?, posted by med_empowered on December 6, 2006, at 12:09:18
> 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.
I agree. My psychiatrist said that the main reason why people never used selegiline as an antidepressant is because people were/are afraid of the diet.I'm not afraid of the diet (I did it with Parnate), but I'm not excited about it either.
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