Posted by RobertDavid on May 4, 2006, at 18:31:09
In reply to Re: insomnia w/parnate- considering emsam, posted by blackcat23 on May 4, 2006, at 18:05:49
Though I never tried parnate, EMSAM has significantly improved my energy, mood and mental clarity, but not increased anxiety which is my primary disorter.
I have noticed there are nights I got a little less sleep, more dreaming, but still woke up with good energy.
I don't think you'll know the answer unless you decide to try it. One thing that I've noticed though is that some seem to have more inital side effects when swiching from one anti depressant/ other MAOI to EMSAM and I suspect that has to do with your body adusting to the withdraw of one while adjusting to EMSAM. When I started EMSAM I was only taking a benzo and had washed out all other meds for a long period of time, perhaps that helped.
There are a few here that were in the initial EMSAM study that are now just starting up with EMSAM again. They said when the stopped the patch and went to oral selegiline it didn't work well for them so it would seem that you can't compare the two.
Anyway, everyone is different. Just my take. Seems the only way to see if any of these meds will work is by trial and error. Good luck Rob
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