Posted by christophrejmc on November 15, 2006, at 16:18:41
In reply to EMSAM experiences vs Oral or sublingual selegiline, posted by psychobot5000 on November 14, 2006, at 17:58:54
I've taken oral selegiline up to 20-30mg (it's been a long time) and I tried EMSAM last Spring up to the middle dosage (is that 9mg?). I found EMSAM to be a lot LESS energizing than oral selegiline.. perhaps because of the relatively low amount of l-methamphetamine and l-amphetamine metabolites compared to oral. EMSAM was still energizing (and somewhat anxiogenic), but not quite as much. I had to stop taking oral selegiline because it was causing palpitations; I didn't get any of those on EMSAM. EMSAM was also quite a bit less prosexual than oral selegiline and it didn't have the same effect on smoking (I don't smoke anymore, but when I had a pack-a-month habit years ago, selegiline made cigarettes absolutely disgusting and made quitting very easy).
I didn't get much out of EMSAM at all. I think it's a shame that they didn't try to make a transdermal formulation for one of the older MAOIs (although I've heard that Parnate is quite irritating when used in a patch).
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