Posted by bleauberry on October 24, 2009, at 17:41:08
In reply to to bleauberry, posted by Jeroen on October 24, 2009, at 15:51:51
> thanks what about adding memantine to my abilify 10 mg and seroquel XR 100 mg
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> i responded well to amantadine in the past... 100 mg it was and it gave a good anti depressant effectWell, those ideas are as good as any since everything we are attempting to do is experimental anyway. It's not as if anyone has any surefire failproof way to treat anything. It's all experimental.
I limited the things I shared with you to things that have been tried and worked in hospital inpatients and that were posted on pubmed. I wanted to stick with ideas that have actually been done, tested, and reported. Rather than purely guessing.
If Amantadine helped you before, then without any hesitation I would go with that rather than Memantine. You'll know within a 1 to 3 weeks if Amantadine is a good choice or not. If not, then move to something else.
The general sense I got from pubmed is that something you have not even considered, but worked surprisingly well for others, might be highest on the list. That would probably be one of the antidepressants I listed, with Luvox looking the most attractive in the bunch. Even the authors of that study were surprised at its effectiveness in the psychotic depression population.
Again, I'm not guessing or theorizing, I am going purely on what has already been done and worked. Since everything we do is experimental, I think maybe it helps to keep our experiments close to the ones that have already been done with good results? There are no huge clinical studies on this stuff, so we have no choice except to go by the experience of smaller studies, which still seems to me better than pure guesswork.
I do honestly believe you are going to do better soon. That is because, for the first time ever, I see you willing to venture outside of the antipsychotic class. I think that is going to open up a whole new world of promise for you. Well, at least that's what the small studies saw happen.
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