Posted by bleauberry on March 29, 2008, at 20:17:15
In reply to Happy Ending :P - OCD/major depression/psychosis, posted by temoigneur on March 28, 2008, at 0:51:37
I highly admire your prowess and determination. I mean, to come up with the idea of memantine, then to see a doc across the border in order to get it prescribed, and then to convince your home doctor to go along with it, well, that's pretty cool stuff. You can thank memantine all you want, but the real thanks go to yourself.
I typed memantine-depression in a google search. Not a whole lot out there. But one hit I got was an older post from right here at psychobabble where someone else got amazing results with memantine. You are not the first. One pilot study showed it was effective for post-heroin withdrawal depression and anhedonia. There is a syndrome after the acute withdrawal where patients enter a prolonged sustained withdrawal called "sustained anhedonia". Hmmm. Makes me wonder, how many other people here have that syndrome? I mean, maybe not caused from herion, but could be the same syndrome from some other reason. Seems to me I've seen it a lot. Anyway, memantine reversed it in a pilot study.
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