No, we are going to try and use the pain control angle, the nerve damage. The doc knows full well that there are about 5-6 different things I want it for, that it can do at the same time (excellent for neuropathic pain, nonaddictive, can suppress development of tolerance to opiates as well as stamp down HARD on tolerance that exists (and incidentally if added to a shot of an IV opiate...although this bit I've left out to him, then it'll turn 'mhhmph, I suppose it'll do' into 'bloody christ' and turn 'bloody christ' into 'fuck ME diagonally with a rabid mink paint me purple and call me mary...and for the love of fuck somebody come and CATCH me because I'm going to drop like a stone..*heavybreathingheavybreathingheavybreathing* as the user rushes their tits off for about half an hour to 3/4 hour, instead of just a few minutes at most otherwise.
That particular bit of information has, however been omitted from the presentation of promotional material I explained to him the other day, mind you.
Also fixes a LOT of my executive and memory-encoding problems.
Its been studied for AD*D? oh me oh my I didn't know THAT. Score one for the Renster with that little snippet. Thanks.
As for anxiety, well, when I've been on it before anxiety just didn't exist. Wasn't even something one would think about, let alone worry about. I'd have had to look the word 'fear' up in a dictionary before I realized what it meant.
I do actually seem to have a lot of ADD (not ADHD) traits. Attentional in particular. So if it knocks that on the head then I'm not going to complain in the slightest bit. But on my previous memantine cycles, the russian pharmacy etc. kind, then anxiety has just been a total nonentity, and it did help me both concentrate and retain what I read/heard etc. Fucking brilliant stuff.
I just hope the doc manages to formally cover his own arse, so to speak. Which he said is all he's really doing by running it by a specialist, as here at least, it is indicated only for moderate to severe alzheimer's disease. Which I do not hais it time to feed the goldfish now? So it would be an unlicensed indication completely, but based on a patient with a LOT of experience with the stuff, knows how it works, WHAT it does and how it does it and finds the stuff quite honestly, life-changing.
So really its a case of when there is a known single fix to a handful of problems, screw killing two birds with one stone, get out the tank and load it with beehive shells and start blasting away at the flock with the flak-cannons then saturate the skies with nerve gas.
Its rather effective stuff, at everything it does for me, and what it does, there is a lot of doing for it to engage in. Its unconventional, highly so, but I KNOW it works. And the magnitude of the good it does in my specific case fully justifies a bit of unconventional. Hell it wouldn't be the first time, chlormethiazole is only indicated here in the BNF for either acute, usually inpatient alcohol detox in physical addicts, or for a sedative-hypnotic type drug, like benzos are used for, for short term use; but it isn't licensed for either antiseizure prophylaxis or for treating one that happens. I get it for both.
So why the fuck not? if it works, and there aren't any disadvantages, which with memantine, I think I'd have realized they were there, by now. All the more so given some of the dose regimens I told the GP of when he asked how much I was using, he thought at first i was off by a decimal place, followed by looking not unlike somebody about to say some very profane words, rude enough so that they rarely ever appear or are allowed to appear even on late-night TV (I.e about 3-4am) and which even 'family guy' bleeps out or implies only. Kinda got this look on his face that appeared to be pleading for somebody to reinsert that drainpipe and wave a piece of gerbil-food at the more open end.
