Posted by emme on January 16, 2005, at 20:39:25
In reply to Re: Memantine (Namenda, Ebixa), posted by SLS on January 16, 2005, at 8:57:44
Scott,
Did the drunkenness you felt at 40 mg have any dissociative aspects to it? Feelings of unreality?
em
> At 20mg/day, I don't recall experiencing any side-effects at all. Within a few days of pushing the dosage to 40mg, I felt an abrupt switch into a state of what I could describe as drunkeness or being stoned. It was not at all pleasant. I reduced the dosage back down to 20mg immediately and the effect dissipated. Because no one had yet described such an experience, and that it might pass, I wasn't inclined to continue with it. Maybe I should have. I had received a brief antidepressant effect from memantine a few weeks prior at the 20mg.
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> Memantine is a drug that I would have no qualms returning to if data becomes available suggesting 40mg is a necessary dosage to treat depression.
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> - Scott
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