Posted by iforgotmypassword on December 6, 2005, at 10:38:44
In reply to Aricept water retention, amphetamine urinary stuff, posted by utopizen on December 5, 2005, at 18:24:59
hi, i meant to message you sooner, because of your account of aricept helping you with expression, as that is a huge deficit of mine. :( but one thing that may be wierd thing that i read about aricept is that it may actually prevent acetylcholine binding to nicotinic receptors. i don't have much documentation of it, i just read it in "Tuning the Brain" by Jay. A. Goldstein, so it may be a piece of puzzling theoretical knowlege that doesn't translate into practice i am not sure, but it may be something worth looking into. i'm not even 100% sure what nicotinic receptors actually do, but i wonder if perhaps maybe the two ACh receptors can compete and make imbalance and alienate the other if one is stimulated too much? (i really have no idea.) but perhaps if maybe your current regimen of a very potent catecholaminergic amphetamine, an AChE inhibitor, and a muscarinc agonist could be leaving your nictonic receptors starved. (again i have no idea.)
i stopped taking aricept. i think it may have been making me feel worse initially (but again i could have been having a few of my bad nights), and after reading in jay a. goldsteins book i started to worry. (but really manily because of the 70 day half life that could screw things up if i wanted to get a brain scan likely needing weeks upon weeks of washout.)
sorry i wish i could think of something more helpful. i had urinary blocking due to desipramine once, and incontinece a few times that may have been tied to drugs (which could have been zoloft, mirapex, or just withdrawl effects from the desipramine, as i sure had other of those, i.e. massive overeating, and somlenence)...
about the prostate issue, if it is enlarged aren't you supposed to be able to feel it? like when you sit down and stuff and when their is pressure around the perineal area? or is that only in obvious cases, or something else entirely?
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