Posted by stargazer on March 20, 2007, at 21:33:34
In reply to Re: Starting Emsam, wondering what to expect » UGottaHaveHope, posted by greywolf on March 20, 2007, at 16:02:53
Greywolf,
thanks for pointing out 6 is better than
nothing since my doctor just added abilify with the Emsam yesterday. Why Abilify? Not sure of the rationale, if there is any, but he says others have gotten improvement on this combo. He said rather than go directly to Nardil, which I am desperate to retry (worked for 2 years in 1987 at at very low dose), he usually has a valid point about trying something else first.That is how I ended up on Emsam. I asked for Nardil and he convinced me to try Emsam first...funny how he never gives me what I want immediately, but I think if the Abilify/Emsam trial fails, I will push again for Nardil. I just need to know if it will work again, 20 years later. Of course they had to go and mess up the formula on us. They can't keep their grubby hands off a good drug. They messed me up with Marplan once and it didn't work the second time.
The only other med another pdoc I saw in consultation suggested was Depakote, because he said I never had a "real" mood stabilizer. What do they call Lamictal, a fake one?
stargazer
poster:stargazer
thread:742360
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20070320/msgs/742657.html