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Weird Emsam side effects?

Posted by Marionette26 on March 28, 2011, at 12:18:30

In late October, my pdoc started me on Emsam 6mg. We upped it after about a month to 9mg, and I ended up having to go back down because it was making me completely manic. It helped a lot with my depression, and I was functioning. But I felt like I was going crazy, and I think I'd rather be depressed and be in control most of the time then feel so out of control.
I've been back down to 6mg for about two weeks now.

So, I think some of the weird things that have been going on with me are probably side effects. Whenever I try to relax, especially at night, my arm and leg muscles start twitching. I've been having joint and muscle pain during the day, although that could be bad posture since I started school again, and hunch whenever I do schoolwork. I'm shakier than I used to be, my hands are pretty much always shaking, although it's probably only noticeable to me. My eyes have also gotten very sensitive to light and dry, although again, that could be allergies or just the season. I'm having problems with my memory and I'm having trouble retriving words from my mind, but I was on benzos for a long time, so it could still be side effects from that... My face is also weirdly... tense. Which is a horrible description, but I don't really know how else to describe it.

Mostly, I'm worried about the cognitive things. I'm not doing as well in school this semester as I usually do, and it's not because of my depression, for once. I'm having a lot of trouble forming sentences and writing papers, and I have to study much harder for tests then I used to have to.

I'm 21 years old and healthy - pretty much none of these problems can be explained by age or health factors that I know of.

Has anyone else had problems like this? Did they get better when you went down or went off of Emsam? Did they just get better with time? Does anyone know if they can end up being permanent problems?

Thank you,
Lena

 

Re: Weird Emsam side effects? » Marionette26

Posted by Phillipa on March 28, 2011, at 13:05:06

In reply to Weird Emsam side effects?, posted by Marionette26 on March 28, 2011, at 12:18:30

I don't know but you are so young. How did you start emsam so young. Think anxiety responsible for memory? Phillipa

 

Re: Weird Emsam side effects?

Posted by Marionette26 on March 28, 2011, at 20:27:43

In reply to Re: Weird Emsam side effects? » Marionette26, posted by Phillipa on March 28, 2011, at 13:05:06

> I don't know but you are so young. How did you start emsam so young. Think anxiety responsible for memory? Phillipa

I've been dealing with depression since I was really young, too, and I'm very medication-resitant. So I've tried lots of medications, and nothing ever got me out of the depression enough that I could function, even with good therapy. They finally started me on MAOIs, and parnate worked a little. But Emsam works really well... at least for the depression. It makes my anxiety worse, but that's a little easier for me to deal with, generally.

And I guess the anxiety could be responsible for my memory problems. I have a lot harder time remembering things that have happened or I've learned when I'm at a high stress level. But this feels a somewhat different than the memory problems I've had from anxiety before, so I'm not sure.

 

Re: Weird Emsam side effects? » Marionette26

Posted by Phillipa on March 28, 2011, at 22:02:33

In reply to Re: Weird Emsam side effects?, posted by Marionette26 on March 28, 2011, at 20:27:43

I'm glad to hear the EMsam is better as I feel patch safer and food. So young to be tx resistant. Phillipa


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