Posted by jonhed on July 17, 2016, at 16:51:56
In reply to Re: My Memantine Journal, day 17., posted by jonhed on July 16, 2016, at 9:08:37
Today i upped the dose to 20mg and i feel fine now.
The side effects usually comes after 1-2 days when you have upped your dose of memantine due to the extreme long half life of the substance.I read 65 pages of a book today without needing to read things again and i can retell the story without a problem.
I'm sure that i'm not manic, cause tonight i slept for 10 hours straight, and when i'm in a mania of some sort i will just sleep for 4 hours at the most, even if i'm depressed i sleep less cause the morning anxiety prevents me from going back to sleep while i have woken up the first time.
So i think i am making progress with my ocd, very much progress.
And if i don't get side effects from 20mg in 7 days, i will up the dose to 30mg next sunday.
I like to think of this as a experiment as my options are very narrow, and if it can be better i will try.
But also i will have in mind that if i feel fine on 20mg, i will not up the dose just for the cause of it.
But maybe, cause it doesn't have any side effects that scares me so why not, if i don't like it, i will just go down to 20 again.I've been talking in another thread about olanzapine, and i will add 2.5mg olanzapine if the memantine doesn't give me full remission. Cause actually that's what i'm looking for. Full remission with my OCD.
Not full remission of every psychiatric disorder i have, but the OCD i will have a high goal, and that is full remission.It's important to remember that i do CBT 1-3 hours every week and have done for 3 years straight, so i don't recommend just medication. I do not believe in just medicating yourself without talking about the problems to.
I think the two are equal important.
I will update tomorrow to.
Wish me good luck on my job and i cross my fingers for not having blurred vision when i wake up in 8 hours!
Cause that is the only, and i mean the only side effect that has been with memantine.I even start to think that it has antipsychotic properties in the olanzapine range due to the 5-HT3 receptor-antagonism that the two shares.
Or maybe that is the antidepressant target of olanzapine, i don't really know but it's working anyway.I was also talking about the d2-agonism that memantine posses, same as pramipexole, and i was not feeling good on pramipexole, now i think that that was because pramipexole doesn't have any antagonizing properties that memantine has.
Cause if you antagonize serotonin to some extent, i think that you could agonize dopamine without getting impulsive behaviour.
Cause actually i feel a lot of similarities with memantine and dexamphetamine, when talking about focus and wakefulness, but completely without the paranoia that is involved with amphetamine.
Or i have to say that it's very much like desoxypipradrol, the good effects from that was awsome i think and it is a shame that methylphenidate won the ADHD-medication race. Cause desoxy is way more stabile in my opinion, in every ways.Now i'm rambling, but this is interesting i think, and i hope that someone is getting some information from this.
I sure fell good about writing it so i will continue.Kind regards / J
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