Posted by bleauberry on April 11, 2008, at 19:23:47
In reply to Re: Memantine May Prevent More Than Stimulant Tol, posted by bulldog2 on April 11, 2008, at 16:02:46
Thanks for the post bulldog2. Appreciate the input.
I am not on Ixel. Though it feels like it has good potential for me, way different than anything of the other noradrenergic meds, I cannot tolerate it for several reasons. Adrenal fatigue, as you said, is probably a central reason for the good response and the dramatic side effects.
After seeing the clinical evidence for Memantine on this thread, and your input, I am more enthused and hopeful to open up that prescription bottle sitting on the shelf. My doctor thinks it works to help other things work, and that it probably won't do much by itself. But those studies show that with a high enough dose it can work by itself. I'll have to email those studies to my doc. He's pretty cool and open minded, now that we have spent a year with disappointing trials and developing a doctor/patient relationship that I think in most cases does require time and failures.
> > Bleauberry - Are you on long term hydrocortisone therapy? If so, is it for adrenal fatigue? Just curious as I have been reading about adrenal fatigue, wondering if that is the cause of my crushing physical fatigue .....
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> If you have adrenal fatigue ,Ixel because of Ne could make that worse. A drug such as memantine even if not effective as an ad could help with the fatigue...maybe stop ixel and run memantine and get the dose up to 20 mg and restart the ixel.
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