Just got given some extra pain meds by my doc, although the pharmacy screwed up, gave me 24x10mg oxy IRs when its meant to be 56. Not having that, of course, but got the phone call waiting for my doc about getting on memantine, so if it isn't fixed before then it should be then.
Hopefully........hoping to fuck this is the day I finally get that memantine script that I've been after for years.
With a little bribery of a sort, and over half a decade of keeping on about it, I reckon they've realized that I am not going to shut up about it and go away. But, my personal assigned GP has finally given me the go ahead basically and just wanted to tell a specialist, given its usually an alzheimer's drug and I don't have alzheimer's disease. But the stuff IS life-changing for me, and does about 6-7 different and all useful things for me, its less killing two birds with one stone, but finding a flock and cutting loose with a bunch of autocannon firing raufoss shells, or just launching a thermobaric warhead right into the middle of the buggers
Memantine is..well if god himself was a drug chef, his archangels would have blown the glassware personally and sent the heavenly host to deliver it, god'd be in the lab and jebus would be making with the stirring and handing out the celestial gas-masks and goggles
My GP has agreed he wants me on it, after I explained to him what it does, how it does it, and the number of things it does for me, and told him I have a great deal of experience with it. A little explaining binding kinetics, etc. and a few other things like its initial memory impairing phase due to nicotinic alpha7 type acetylcholine receptor antagonism, before adaptation occurs and a reverse-tolerance with alpha7 NAChR upregulation causing further nootropic effects, its effects on nerve pain that I was given gabapentin for but which did sweet fuck all on a bike, and which opiates don't touch, memantine more or less lets off a tactical nuke, right up its ass ring. Brain fog vanishes, opioid tolerance already present gets stamped on and further tolerance acquisition is cracked down on, and HARD. The only thing it seems like it can't do, is go rob a bank for me and bring me back a fortune in gold bloody bars.
That, I'd have to attend to personally if I ever were so inclined
Hope your feeling better now Sadie darlin' *hugs* (carefully and with your arse pointed towards the face of the nearest pig)
