I have had short periods of mild depression during the past two years. Is Emsam what is helping me? I'm not sure because I am also having ECT. But considering the period of time between my treatments of stability I would say Emsam is doing its thing.

Yes, It is $700 a month - 30 patches. It is covered by my insurance but I have Medicare Part D for meds and right now I am in the doughnut hole in which I have to pay 1/2 the cost for all brand name drugs. I don't know if you know about Part D but in the first level you pay a copay, I think it was about $75 for Emsam. Then when $2550 has been spent on drugs by the insurance company and you too, then you go to the second level - the doughnut hole. In that level, you pay 1/2 cost of all brand name drugs and the drug maker pays the other half.. for generics I think you pay 87% of the cost. After you have paid $4550 for meds you move to the third level, catastrophic level, and my cost for Emsam will drop to about $35 a month. You stay at the third level until the end of the year when everything starts over again.