Posted by Jost on November 17, 2006, at 15:22:55
In reply to Re: Emsam and heart, posted by Declan on November 17, 2006, at 13:39:28
Very sure. It's a well-known. but not well publicized reaction to the other drug-- which just is also known to stop very slowly.
It's diminished very very gradually since I stopped the other drug (and a bunch of other drugs, too). It's one of those reactions that a lot of drugs can cause synergistically with the originating drug-- like claritin was making it worse, and also one night I drank some wine and, after having been quite dormant for four or five days, it went back to how it had been a couple of weeks before. It got much better, the next day but little things like that have also slowed things. Same thing happened one night with Chinese food and a spice my SigO uses sometimes in cooking-- but there isn't any food prohibition with the Emsam (esp. two months after you've stopped taking it--) so I don't think there's any chance it was that.
If you check a lot of drugs, you do see arrhythmia down on the list of many uncommon, but extant, reactions.
There might have been a synergistic reaction with the Emsam-- but if it were primarily the Emsam, I'd be long over it.
But, for example, I stopped also provigil, and a lot of other things-- except xanax and ambien--luckily.
I really do wonder if I'll have the same reaction to the Emsam. It was the best I've ever felt pretty much-- of course maybe it was a weird coincidence-- or fluke.
I'd really recommend Emsam, though, if you can get it. If you fiddle around enough with the valium and other sleep aids, you might be able to get a lot from it. When I got too much Emsam, I felt a bit agitated-- but I reduced the size of the patch, and that resolved that.
Also, as I mentioned, I did take the patch off when I went to sleep. I often woke up at some point, and took Sonata (a short- half life sleep med), put the patch on and got back to sleep. Seemed to take the Emsam long enough to really get going, that I got about the same sleep as without it--
Something to think about, even with deprenyl, if you had a good reaction.
Jost
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