Posted by d0pamine on July 3, 2007, at 11:44:55
In reply to EMSAM start up side-effects, posted by JohnSky on July 3, 2007, at 11:17:06
For me the first 3 weeks were fairly asymptomatic all the way around but by week 4 the insomnia was starting while still providing no positive effects. By the end of week six however I began to become a different person. Although I still experienced the insomnia and a few other fairly benign effects, by week 8 I was alive and functional and basically what I’d consider to be normal. I’ve now been using EMSAM (12mg/24 (the big patch)) for about 1.5 years and thank God for it on a daily basis as there is simply no comparison to life without it. I’ve read numbers of stories of people who stop taking it because it isn’t helping them, however I suspect that in the majority of cases they simply didn’t use a large enough patch for a long enough period of time. If you find the side effects intolerable I suppose that’s a different story, but if that isn’t the problem, make sure you give it a good 8 week fair shot as I’ve tried pretty much everything out there and for me, there is nothing like it. My experience has been that some of the quirky side effects will likely go away with time (taste perversion, jitters, anxiety (unless you’re just prone to that naturally)), but some of the side effects will get worse for the first 6 months until they plateau (primarily insomnia)). However just in the last 4 weeks I’ve found a complete 100% cure for my insomnia and have gone from sleeping 2 to 4 hours / night to as many as I have time for. 700 Mg X 2 / day of Potassium Citrate (has to be citrate). I should note that the RDA on potassium is somewhere around 3,200 Mg however because it is so potentially dangerous, supplements have been limited by the FDA to 99Mg so I have to take 14 of them a day to get that dose. In some situations potassium overdose can occur and can very quickly result in cardiac arrest followed shortly by death, so you’d likely want to discuss such a supplement with your healthcare professional prior to consumption. Potassium is serious stuff, too little and you die, too much and you die. Best of luck
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