Posted by laima on December 21, 2006, at 11:04:24
In reply to Re: Oral dosing equivalence is very, very high » laima, posted by CrimsonVik on December 21, 2006, at 2:39:56
It seems to get more confusing all the time about those equivalencies. Maybe it's like comparing apples and oranges, as the saying goes. If Emsam cuts out the amphetamine aspect that oral selegeline has, maybe it's not even really the same drug anymore (?) I definately believe I "felt" the oral stronger, I wonder if that has to do with the amphetamine involved. However, I have discovered a "magic combo"- Emsam with tiny amount of adderall. This is definately working better than either the oral or the Emsam alone! (Or maybe it's working like a much larger dose of the oral?) It's a new development for me: I had been using small amount of ritalin to raise my very low blood pressure, and that was ok. One of my doctor's colleagues consulted with my case, and voiced his clinical observation that a lot of people do really well with Emsam plus adderall- that the two appear to work synergistically. So I was switched fairly recently, and it works! Amazing! So now it's Emsam 9 plus 5 mg adderall, twice a day.
> Laima, if you have been on the 6 mg. patch and 20 mg. oral as we both seem to have, it is stronger to the patient than a patch. Especially at first.
> I think 10 mg. feels more like the 6 mg. patch.
> V.
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