Posted by g_g_g_unit on September 3, 2009, at 2:09:46
In reply to Re: anyone still taking Namenda?, posted by yxibow on September 1, 2009, at 23:35:18
> Not any more. I had a month trial of it and when I finally got to 20mg, things were -really- "wrong" when I walked around the street. My already psychiatric vision problem was aggravated and people appeared to be moving in a strange manner.
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> I dropped it and things returned to, well, how they had been before.
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> I surmise it is because it accentuated effects, agonizing instead of blockading D2 (i.e. increasing whatever it is, psychosis or otherwise).
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> But for people who are not susceptible to this problem, yes, some people have had success stories.
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> But it isn't a benign drug and neither was Deplin (I forget what happened there, some anxiety aggravation).
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> -- Jaymy impression from the literature is that it *is* a D2 agonist? at least that was my explanation for feeling so pepped up at first. then i guessed the glutamate modifying functions began to kick in at higher doses, which is where i began to have difficulty 'imprinting' memories - i.e. i could be sitting in a movie and experienced it as a total blur, forgetting it as i went along because my short-term memory was so compromised.
still, i remember that at lower doses i had days of total, zen-like composure. same thing happened when i was coming off it.
i read about one dude who took 5mg every 3 days, so maybe the literature-appointed 20mg is too much for non-Alzheimer's sufferers. fwiw, i attempting to use it for cognitive enhancement.
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