Posted by Jost on May 8, 2006, at 14:56:27
In reply to Re: Social anxiety with no energy or motivation, posted by tgo on April 30, 2006, at 12:21:39
Why not try cymbalta, geranium? It's not a bad thing to try, worked pretty well for me, but I got a very unique side effect, so I had to stop.
I'm interested in EMSAM, esp. whether it's a lot more effective than selegiline. My psych doctor originally was against selegiline, on the basis that it wasn't effective; now he's high on EMSAM.
I'm confused, because I could have taken high doses of selegiline, probably, because I was on v. high dose of Parnate without any hypertensive problems. My biggest problem with Parnate was that, rather unusually, it put me to sleep. That's why I needed the high dose--otherwise I was basically asleep all the time.
It wasn't in retrospect a very good idea, but nothing else so far has worked. Except for the cymbalta--which was okay, worth it, but not really great.
I'm just wondering, basically, if selegiline is a rather weak Maoi, why would Emsam be so great-- if the issue of dose is taken out of the picture. And how much of a difference does the larger dose make?
Jost.
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