Posted by MARTY on April 1, 2006, at 4:37:23
Understand me, I'm not trying to bring down peoples hopes and expectancy.
I would just like to understand why there are so many people excited about trying the new EMSAM patch. Most of them, most of you, are veterans when it comes to meds and some are very knowledgeable in psychopharmacology and that is making me even more confuse and here's the very simple (too much simple?) thinking behind it, in 2 simple facts...
1. The EMSAM patch is just another 'way' of taking the drug SELEGELINE which is already available in pills forms since a long time.
Aside from change in the MAOI diet, there is not much changes we can expect in the effect of SELEGELINE delivered by the patch.2. SELEGELINE is having very limited success/efficacity as an MAOI for the depression/anxiety without the parkinson
disease. It is safe to say that it is no Nardil or Parnate and works much less often than Marplan and Manerix.
So now, why as many people want to try SELEGELINE now but weren't mostly uninterested before the patch, mainly because not much people were talking about the SELEGELINE pills because of 'fact #2'. I understand the need for some VERY-VERY-Treatment resistant few people to try everything new because they have nothing that works. But I also do understand that people like us, just like me, needs some hopes to be able to continue the fight...For my part I'm very thrilled by the fact that their is some scientific and economical interest/motivation in using modern science knowledges/capabilities to find ways to bring back the good old MAOIs. It could well be a solution for all the time, money and pain we've put in the last 25 years in the failure we call SSRIs. but plz don't use this thread to discuss with me if you disagree that the SSRIs are a failure, a massive lost of lives or a scientific controlled statistic lie; create a new thread to do so.. ;)
Marty
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