Posted by Honore on March 28, 2007, at 21:32:48
In reply to Re: Emsam-advice for putting on the patch, posted by jeff81 on March 28, 2007, at 17:57:20
It's pretty tough to do a great job every time.
My method is to take one of the two parts off the adhesive backing. Sometimes the larger and sometimes the smaller; I can't decide which works better. Maybe it's different with different packages.
Then I put the sticky side onto my shoulder (for example), so that the other side is still covered by the adhesive backing, while the first is already on.
Then I reach underneath and try to pull a little of the backing off, while simultaneously letting whatever is opened up stick to my skin, so that I'm using the tension of pullling it off to make it stick very flat to my skin.
It's kind of like the way you pull a bandaid on, except that the adhesive is much more sticky, so you have to pull harder and more carefully, so that the right amount of tension and separation of the patch from the backing, and its adhering to one's skin are happening at the same time.
Dont' know if this is at all clear. It's the only way I've been able to get them to really stick.
Honore
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