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Aricept Me: A Happy Story

Posted by utopizen on December 29, 2005, at 20:27:13

"I'd like to try Aricept," I asked my Nurse Practioner.

"Well, that's something to talk to a neurologist about," he says.

"But you prescribe my psychotropics."

"Well, um, we're out of time. When can we meet again?" he says.

Two appointments later, he finally has bothered to consult with his underwriting M.D. and thank the Good Lord, after seeing 12 psychiatrists over 4 years of first being diagnosed with ADD, Depression and Social Anxiety...

I am finally entering both remission in areas enough to target my ADD to get someone to finally stop putting my Aricept idea on the backburner!


I start at 5mg, once daily.

As I expected, G.I. side effects: upset stomach, um, well, let's leave it at that.

Let's just say, initially, the G.I. side effects are nothing to worry about. Just be happy if you don't get paranoia, hallucinations, mania, or as the makers of Aricept like to say, "psychiatric disturbances" (nice cover-all).

I do not advise this medicine in those suffering from any mood disorder that involves cycling and requires medication.

That said, odds are I'm a bit of a cyclothymic, as I've finally come to terms with accepting to myself after years of head-scratching docs not sure if I was bipolar, immature or just an interesting case study.

As my psychopharmacology course has taught me well, cyclothymia, of course, is not a disorder that requires medical intervention.

That said, it does make for sometimes interesting experiences on, Gabitril, and um, 10mg of Aricept over several months.

Anyhow, those things only last a night, and, go away on contact with Klonopin Wafers (no, really, straight under your tongue!)

Ah, anyhow, 5mg is perfect for me. It's generally the starting dose for geriatrics, and even the pediatric patients in the AD/HD trials, but for me, really did do a whole lot of difference.

I did have to add Prilosec, but, it's generic, my doc prescribes it to save me money, and I had a bit of existing acid reflux that probably required it prior to Aricept anyhow.

Now, for the cool stuff:


I've started writing great.

I always tended to write well.

But I now write splendid poetry and prose.

Is it Aricept? No one will ever know. I like to think so. The important thing is, it didn't hurt.

My mood: I had been entering remission.

Yet I happened to note to my Nurse that I feel it may be somehow involved in improving my "poetic faculties."

As my Nurse Practioner commented, a few months into Aricept use,:

"That is the first time you've ever said a qualatative statement."


I had seen him for 2 years.


I use to just want depression to go away, for social anxiety to subdue itself, without knowing Klonopin is the only thing keeping things at bay, etc.

Now, I can think of nothing but what countries I wish to visit, what plans for my future, what girls to speak with again, what to write to my blog, what movies to see, what parties to go to, what an author's influence is having on me.

I rarely read this board, but, I wanted you to all know, life not only gets better. It begins anew again, and again, and again. You will take med trials, they will have side effects. You will take meds, you will hope to get better, and it might not. Everything is a trial. If it were predictable, it wouldn't be worth enduring.

Keep going, every last one of you. To the beginning, and never the end.


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