Posted by jonhed on July 13, 2016, at 15:40:08
In reply to Re: My Memantine Journal, day 12., posted by jonhed on July 11, 2016, at 17:08:38
Something strange happened to me just now.
I received a email from my pdoc in answer to a question i had about upping the dose to 40mg in one month from now.
I asked her what she thinks of that dose, if it's to much or whatever.Then i got an email some hours later that said "Up the dose til you feel side effects. Kind regards **"
She is a professor as i have said before and very famous here in sweden (promise to you all, i'm not delusional, sweden is a small country)
So i asked her if there are some dangerous side effects that i need to look for, or if i can trust my own body and stop upping when i feel that it does more damage than good.
(We work a lot against helping me trusting my own body signals and so on cause of my DPD, so that adds up.)She said there weren't any dangerous that she have seen, and she's been using memantine extensively on young people, so i believe her.
She said that i could experience some dizziness and etc, but no cardiovascular or that caliber of side effects that some substances have.I don't know what to think of this, but i'm happy that she gave me control over it (i say it again so you know, we have free medicines in sweden so the cost is never an issue), and need to see this as a test maybe.
So i'm now on 15mg for today and if there aren't any side effects from this on monday i will up it to 20mg for a week, if i feel remission from that dose i will stop, or else i will up some more.
I feel fine now so my body really accept this medicine.
I'm very thankful, cause as you all know, i'm hard to medicate, espacially with non-narcotics, so my pdoc is very happy about that :-)
Today i worked overtime on my job and still have energy to cook dinner and all that, so this has been a miracle and i hope it's not just initial effects.
One thing i know that it's not is mania, cause i sleep 7-9 hours per night and is tired as F when i wake up, so no mania here.
I will keep updating and hope you all like my journal, i sure like writing about it.
(Please respect that i don't want to hear side effects that you know of, but you can ask questions if you want to. Sorry for being that "bossy", but it's important for me when things going so good now.)
Kind regards / J
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