Posted by mogger on September 19, 2009, at 21:31:29
Hello,
I am so bummed as my trial with Rilutek finished. It was phenomenal for depression, GAD and ocd but I couldn't put a sentence together after 4 months! I remember someone warning me that it could potentially have this effect in an earlier post and that person was so right!I think the problem is that it was added to my lamictal 300 mg which gives me a bit of slurred speech already and memory recall problems. I didn't want to come off lamictal as that has been a lifesaver for me (only slight problem with speech and memory with lamictal, folic acid helps it as well) so I opted to stop rilutek unfortunately.
My question is I am interested in trying memantine as I hear it has a similar mechanism (i have no idea what I am talking about) on glutamate? I only worry though that a side effect of memantine is cognitive problems and that adding it to my lamictal might cause the same problem with speech/memory that the rilutek did. Has anyone tried memantine with lamictal and not had a problem? Should I be worried?
many thanks for your thoughts,
mogger
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