Pfafffed
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How did your trial of microdosing memantine go @Pfafffed ?
It sucked for the first ten days (which is normal and expected.) When it finally started working, I felt quite a bit of joy, enthusiasm, joie de vivre. That lasted for 4-8hrs after the morning dose kicked in. Sleep was hard to manage, but that's hard to judge when quarantine just started. Doubled the dose after several days as you're supposed to, and it sucked again, but a lot less and for a lot less time. Benefits were less pronounced after a while, though. Eventually, I determined that the lack of mental clarity, very slight cognitive deficits, sleep disruption, and general medication management weren't worth the significantly diminishing returns that I was getting from it. I think I made it to where I had acclimated to 15mg in one dose in the morning before I decided to give up on it. Again, it's a hard time to evaluate something like this, but overall the days I found there to be a significant improvement weren't nearly as many as the days where I had to bear with mildly unpleasant cognitive side-effects. Also, it had no impact at all on my tolerance to any class of drugs, which was disappointing. I used to be quite sensitive to most drugs other than caffeine (and to a extent alcohol.) This is neither here nor there, but my effective dose for most drugs has gone through the roof for some reason. I don't really think it's tolerance (with the exception of caffeine and alcohol,) so I can't fault memantine for not helping, but it didn't impact alcohol or caffeine either. It was a strong drug, though, and I'm not sad that I gave it a go--it's not like a lot of bullshit nootropics that I've tested out on myself over the years. I could easily see how it could help some people; I just wan't one of them. My only regret is that I've likely gone from having zero dissociative tolerance at all to probably having some serious permatolerance, but that's not a class of drugs that I care much about anyway. I decided it was worth the sacrifice in case memantine ended up being beneficial.