Posted by Darkness At Noon on August 18, 2007, at 5:54:24
EMSAM: The summer of my discontent.
I spent about a week at 12 mg, and everything I've written before still applies, except more so. No benefits.
Insomnia, despite increase in sleeping meds. I was averaging 4 very poor hours of sleep, then spent the days so fatigued that I was useless. I returned to applying new patch in morning, and removing old patch an hour before bedtime, but no help.
So my pdoc has me back down at 9mg, where hopefully I can stabilize a sleep routine before going back up. But she sounded no more optimistic than I feel.
At 12 mg, the constipation became noticeably problematical. If sex drive was zero at 9 mg, it was sub-zero at 12 mg. Good line of refrigerators, I hear, but not fun.
At this point, I feel like I'm just going through the motions. EMSAM is shaping up to be the zillionth new thing that helped nothing but added some delightful side effects.
Thoughts of VNS are dancing through my sleep-deprived mind. What could possibly go wrong?
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