Posted by SLS on October 19, 2012, at 4:11:28
In reply to This is a bit frightening. Alert but not awake., posted by AlexCanada on October 19, 2012, at 3:02:41
> I feel really strange. I cannot sleep. Feel very alert, imagination is there, and feels darker, definitely gloomy type of mood. my mindset feels very altered. i feel less part of this world. unable to feel joy and much emotion in general. feels like emotions are partially shut down. yet mind feels fairly active but not in a good way. feels very disconcerning. feels like life has less purpose.
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> but of course this will pass. there is something remarkable amount memantine regarding some of it's cognitive effect but i feel very much like I am not here.
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> the half-life is 60-70ish hours. soon enough i'll feel better. i hate this feeling right now.
What dosage of memantine did you start at?I felt weird, too, when I moved up from 20 mg/day to 40 mg/day. It was probably too big a jump. I felt sort of drunk. I got scared and stopped taking it. I wish that I were smart enough to have given it more time.
Sometimes weird is good. I always feel weird right before I begin to respond to MAOIs. Memantine is generally a benign drug. You might want to reduce the dosage temporarily. Did you follow the titration schedule suggested by the manufacturer? They used to give out starter packs to physicians for their patients to begin treatment. Perhaps memantine is not the right drug for you. I have a hard time thinking of a psychotropic drug that does not produce adverse effects for some people.
http://www.namenda.com/Taking-Namenda/How-Its-Taken.aspx
Good luck.
- ScottSome 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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