Posted by jonhed on July 19, 2016, at 17:16:53
In reply to Re: My Memantine Journal, day 18., posted by jonhed on July 17, 2016, at 16:51:56
I'm way in to day 20 now and i feel weird i must say.
This is the third day i take 20mg and i definitely feel some side effects, but just the same as the one i wrote about when i upped from 5 to 10mg, extreme blurred vision but unfortunately also pretty massive fatigue.If it's like when i upped to 10mg, then the side effects should be gone by tomorrow and never come back, but if they do and they continue for 1 week, i have decided to try and talk to my pdoc about adding modafinil in the morning.
Cause i definitely don't want to stop memantine, it has done wonders for my OCD and still it surprises me every day.
I never experience hyper arousal anymore, and that has been a massive issue for me, i can assure you that.
That it completely gone, nearly to the point that i have developed some "who cares?"-Attitude about things that happens, which is great since i have been super sensitive before.
And yeah, i can handle it. I'm not going to become histrionic or narcissistic because of this, i just feel like i suppose to feel i suppose?But the fatigue and brain fog is real right now, but i think that will go away.
Every medication comes with initial side effects, and memantine has very little of that but the vision and the fog is pretty extreme and i can see why people don't wanna continue it when this happens. But i'm thinking, is this worse than something else?
No it's not, it's easier to cope with just mental stuff than if i have had an extreme body load on this to, stiffness and some palpitations added to that.I'm gonna keep update if you want that, but i think that it's time to do another thread so this doesn't end up in the archive,
do you let me do that?Now i'm going to sleep!
Kind regards to you all :-) / J
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