Posted by LucidDreamer on December 4, 2012, at 1:26:02
In reply to Re: Is the Emsam patch more effective than SSRIs?, posted by Willful on December 3, 2012, at 21:35:20
> As Phillipa said, I've been taking emsam since it first came out, and it's worked extremely well for me, both for anxiety and depression.
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> I would say that initially your anxiety could increase, but that as you accommodate to it, this diminishes. I couldn't say 100% whether my anxiety wasn't related to being depressed, but both of them are much much better than previously. I think I began with emsam and a very small amount of abilify and provigil (to help with issues of not sleeping). Later I added rilutek, which is a rather non-standard med, which happens to work extremely well for me.
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> I recommend trying emsam, if you're interested, because the food interactions only become problematic at quite high doses, although the med interactions are the same as all MAOIs. I started with parnate and ran into a serious complication with it, after which I used cymbalta for a time, which didn't work much for me.
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> SSRIs really disagree with me-- the relative merits really depend on individual reactions. But I think MAOIs are extremely good drugs and should be much higher up on the list of meds to try.
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> But this may be a minority opinion. I know emsam is expensive, which may be partly responsible for its rarity in use. But if your insurance will pay for it, I would definitely recommend it.
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Thank you so much Willful for replying. I now have more hope that it will help my anxiety. I too take Abilify and that has helped with my anxiety, while most people complain of worsened anxiety when taking it. That has given me more hope that Emsam will help my anxiety. Because both of these meds affect dopamine and in my case some of my anxiety is related to dopamine. Also did you experience any side effects while on Rilutek? Thanks.
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