Showing posts with label namenda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label namenda. Show all posts

10 October, 2007

Main course or side dish

The particular feeling of nastiness I'm having right now feels familiar. Feels familiar in a third week of Namenda sort of a way.

I haven't read up on the side effects of this anti-Alzheimer drugs, but I'm nervous it's what's responsible for this 24/7 migraine with not so much pain. Sure, you might think that the pain going would be a good thing. And it is! It's just that the nausea, sensitivity to light, sound, motion, cognitive impairedness--they're still all here. The things that migraines took off the table are still off the table. And I can't even go to the ER to get them back for a little.

I expressed this concern to my migraine specialist as best I could (I have to go through a middle person to talk to him), and he's told me not to stop taking the Namenda, but instead to do week 2 again of the tapering starter pack. I'm on week 3 now, 15mg of the stuff, and really just not happy. I could sleep forever with the slightest provocation.

Hopefully that makes the difference--I'm not sure how he intends to get me past 10mg, and I'm not sure this is better than this time last week.