Posted by SLS on June 13, 2012, at 5:57:14
In reply to Re: Memantine for Depression - How long to wait? » SLS, posted by g_g_g_unit on June 13, 2012, at 4:43:46
> Yeah, are you taking Memantine without your doctor's guidance?
I guess you could say that. He knows that I will be taking memantine, but we didn't go over a titration schedule this time. I had taken it once before, and it helped a bit. However, I believe I used a starter pack to initiate treatment.
> I think the typical schedule for Alzheimer's is 5mg week 1, then 10mg week 2, then 10mg + 5mg week 3, then 10mg + 10mg week 4.
Okee dokee...
:-)
> Did you plan on taking the 20mg all at once? Because I also understand that in order to keep blood levels stable (and hence, reap optimum benefits), you should be quite strict about dosing 10mg + 10mg exactly 12 hours apart.
Okee dokee...
:-)
I will probably start memantine treatment next week. I am trying to accelerate my rate of recovery. It is too slow for my tastes. If that does not work, I am to try Topamax again at 100 mg, a drug that also helped me to some degree. I will titrate Topamax more slowly than the starter pack provides for. I start at 25 mg/day and move up by 25 mg every week. Following this schedule in the past has obviated any cognitive or memory impairments. If that doesn't work, I will then pursue ketamine and rTMS. If I cannot trigger a more rapid antidepressant response using any of these treatments, then I will simply sit back and settle for the snail's pace of improvement that I currently enjoy. Perhaps that is the most I can expect in my case, regardless of treatment. I am, of course, grateful for what I do have.
Thanks again.
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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