Posted by SadDoggie on February 23, 2005, at 7:26:37
In reply to memantine update, posted by emme on February 22, 2005, at 22:33:04
I would like to post my experience too. I had to start at 2.5mg because 5mg made me spacey and basically didn't make me feel good. At 2.5mg it seemed to augment my other meds so it was not bad. After 4 days though I didn't get an effect anymore and raised it to 5mg. I was able to tolerate 5mg now. I got an augmenting effect for another 4 days or so, but it lost it's effect again. I tried raising it to 7.5mg but was not able to tolerate that dose. Not a very good experience for me but not totally bad or useless. Others might have a better experience. I have not tried it with an opiate yet and it might be more useful then.
SadDoggie> Antidepressant effects still holding. I've had to drop the dose back down to 5 mg b/c I can't tolerate 10 mg or 7.5 mg. I'll see if the benefit holds at the lower dose. Drawbacks: lotsa fatigue, spacey brain, and I swear the stuff is making me feel weak. I'm encouraged enough by the improvement to try to work with the dosage for the time being to see if we can minimize the side efects.
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