Posted by henryo on April 29, 2011, at 2:06:48
In reply to Re: asking questions re: emsam theraputic value » henryo, posted by floatingbridge on April 27, 2011, at 9:41:07
I did sort of stumble onto using it this way myself. I think my biological-psychiatrist called my condition "delayed sleep phase syndrome". I tried Trazodone but it leaves me groggy. Light therapy certainly works but I have a real aversion to bright lights in my eyes. So when my sleep cycle gets flipped, I try to stay up all 24 hours till the next evening. Then I use the Emsam patch and a lot of self-discipline to get it righted. There is no such thing as depression without sleep disorder or sleep disorder without depression. They don't even know if they are separate issues. March is often a bad month for me. I have a history of depressions around this time of year often near hibernation. I can get so sleepy in the daytime that it hurts. Anyway I use what I have learned. In the last several years I am way way better than ever. But I sometimes have rough periods. If I can notice them before they really take hold and do something to change it, then I'm better off.
After I said the other night that I ought to be using Emsam now, I did. But I decided that I have a history of using the very least amount of any med that I possibly can. That has been something instilled in me. Don't take more than you need. That has lead to not taking enough meds when I actually need them. Anyway I decided to use the whole patch because that is how they were designed. I should have stuck with the system I devised before. I put a whole patch on yesterday, 4 hours later I started really feeling it. I don't like it when I can feel a med that powerfuly. So I took it off and started again today with a half. I think this is good. I'll be going to sleep soon instead of in 3 to 4 hours. I feel tired just before midnight which is rare for me. Goodnight.
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