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Originally Posted by Michelle Hess
Has anyone every prescribed or used dextromethorphan transdermally in cream form for the innappropriate giggling or crying that comes with pseudo bulbar affect? Apparently Dextromethorphan is coupled with quinidine in the new pseudo bulbar drug Nuedexta. But quinidine is not without potential side effects and contraindications and its only reason in the formulation is to increase the level of the DM so that it has less first-pass effect in the liver.
so my question is if anyone has ever used DM alone transdermally for this use?? Transdermally, it would undergo less metabolism to its inactive/unable to pass blood brain barrier metabolite. it just makes sense to try. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
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I didn't even know this came in a cream form. DM has disassociative effects, I have used this for pain, but now I am taking namenda instead. I can see why it wold stop pseudo bulba affect, (though I don't have that) because it is hard to even care about what other people are saying when I take this med, the Namenda does not have this effect.