Posted by JohnSky on July 13, 2007, at 9:54:38
Hello. I have been on the 6mg patch for 15 days now. When I started the patch from day 1 my anxiety jumped up. Through this period my anxiety has risen and held at a high level to date. I'm very sensitive to medications. I feels like torture at times and has me thinking about the anxiety alot. I take a benzo and gabapentin to help with the anxiety but it doesn't cut into it enough. Today I cut the patch in half (I hope you can do that) to see how where the anxiety goes. I thought I could hold at 3mg and work back up to 6mg very slowly.
My pharmacist says don't cut the patch.I really want to give EMSAM a fair trial because I already seem to be feeling better from a depression perspective... And I have taken about every other med there is.
My questions:
1. Is cutting the patch OK?
2. Have others experienced the intense anxiety
of starting EMSAM and has it gone away.. and
how long did it take?I just can't take too much more of the anxiety/agitation from the EMSAM, but I am willing to tough it out another week or so if there is a decent chance the anxiety will go down.
Would love to hear from others on this.
poster:JohnSky
thread:769334
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