Posted by desolationrower on March 20, 2009, at 22:57:22
In reply to Re: Anyone actually tried cholinsterase inhibitor augm » linkadge, posted by jms600 on March 20, 2009, at 16:22:28
> Hi Linkadge
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> I took memantine/Namenda a few years back as part of a drug study (not for any mental type illness though). I found it to have quite noticeable 'calming' properties as well as appearing to have an antidepressant effect. I was also taking 60mg Prozac at the time.
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> I found memantine made me quite light headed and dizzy at times; however, I later read on the net that fluoxetine and memantine can interact although I haven't read this anywhere since.
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> If I had the chance I would definitely like to give memantine another go. I hope it gets licensed for depression/anxiety one day.just to clarify, while both are used for alzheimers, memantine is an nmda antagonist/5ht3 antagonist nicotinic (alpha7 i think) antagonist. ACHEi are something different.
-d/r
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