Posted by Honore on May 9, 2007, at 8:41:18
In reply to Re: EMSAM vs. Manerix / Aurorix (Moclobemide), posted by MaddieB on May 9, 2007, at 6:14:25
Has your pdoc given you the arguments for Manerix? Given that it's much less know quantity, I'm surprised she wouldn't use Emsam, whcih at least has a fairly decent year of good results (even if not good sales). I too had heard that Moclobemide wasn't terribly effective, but I'm not very familiar with it My pdoc at one point refused to prescribe oral selegiline, or moclobemide, because he thought neither of them, in that form was really useful. He may have been wrong about the selegiline-- there wasn't much research at the time-- so I'm not sure what that means about moclobemide-- although oral selegiline isn't as effective as the patch.
If I knew a little bit more about what type of depression you have and whether you have a lot of social or general anxiety, how you sleep, how you respond to more stimulating drugs, it might be easier to respond.
But just the success of Emsam, as opposed to relative dormancy of Manerix, even though it's been around much longer, strikes me as a predisposing argument. Unless there's some specific reason.
Honore
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