Posted by undopaminergic on April 4, 2020, at 2:09:47
In reply to Re: Why do strong SRIs induce apathy, indifference? » undopaminergic, posted by sigismund on April 3, 2020, at 22:02:15
> Can you say *anything* more about memantine and your experiences? The good and the bad, dosages and stuff?
>
> I recall you mentioning it.
>
> I have some here.You feel weird at first, which led me to try only one dose the first time. Then later, when I *wanted* to feel weird, I took more, maybe 20 mg, and then a pleasant hypomania set in, which was entirely unexpected. I bought 100 grams of pure menantine but I dared only take 20-30 mg because I was afraid of "Olney's lesions". Later I was more adventurous and I took maybe 60. The mania made me impulsively take at least more than a gram of the drug, hoping to produce Olney's lesions, and I got catatonia among other things; I was in intensive care and then they moved me to the psychiatric branch. Later, a friend informed me that memantine does not cause Olney's lesions.
I don't think you need to worry about anything beyond the mania it can induce.
-undopaminergic
poster:undopaminergic
thread:1109340
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20200303/msgs/1109383.html