Posted by former trx resistant on January 11, 2008, at 13:33:03
In reply to Re: Beyond Emsam, posted by ericwagner on January 11, 2008, at 12:50:04
Trust me I have no relationship with Bristol but I am passionate about EMSAM because it quite literally saved my life. I know what it's like to be inside and checked out of life and totally without desire to live for months, sometimes reading boards (this is the BEST, DR. Bob!)looking for help because at the end of the day the pdoc doesn't have to go home and face your problems or try to live life 24 hours a day like you do.
I know the "cocktails" are the current trend but it never made sense to me and it's quite frightening how pdocs give a pinch of this and a pinch of that for each symptom with so many unpredictable drug interactions and they are the first to tell you they don't know how this stuff works or what the effects will be on your brain and/or liver 10-20 years down the road.
But it is a bit disheartening to hear so many of you giving up at 3 month mark (of course if you have bad reaction that's understandable)when the research shows you should give it minimum 15-16 weeks, maybe a little longer since you should be titrating up. As I said for me, 4 weeks @ 6mg and nothing, so I went to 9mg and couldn't stand it after 3 days . . .went off for a week, then started with 1/2 of 6mg for 24 hours, still too much, so kept decreasing until I found 1/2 patch of 6mg for 12-14 hours.
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