• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for amphetamine tolerance)
• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for obsessive-compulsive disorder)
• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for depressed mood)
• Side effects

  Mild (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Sometimes
• Burden

  A little hard to take

Dosage: 15 mg Daily

Cost: $25-49 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Major (for amphetamine tolerance)
• Effectiveness

  Major (for obsessive-compulsive disorder)
• Effectiveness

  Slight (for depressed mood)
• Side effects

  None (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 10 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: --titrate dose up slowly, starting at 5mg for 3-15 days before going up to 10mg. Acute side effects, such as "brain fog", confusion, memory loss, body aches, ect....are at their worst for the first 2-4 days after starting new/raising dose. Apparently, most people report the side effects to become unbothersome at 1-2 weeks, and after 4 weeks, side effects such as memory loss/brain fog/confusion are completely gone. After 2-4 weeks, an improvement (as opposed to a decrease) in attention, cognition, and memory abilities is commonly noticed --- hence, Memantine's clinical benefit in Alzheimer's disease patients. Memantine is not an "Alzheimers Disease Medication/Drug". It is a mixed (non-selective) NMDA, 5-HT3, and Nicotinic Acetylcholine receptor antagonist. These three mechanisms significantly modulate attention, memory, cognition, and many other aspects of mental function....the use of Memantine in Alzheimers disease is merely due to the discovery that chronic Memantine improves memory in such patients. Other uses of Memantine include: preventing Amphetamine/Opiate tolerance, OCD/Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, ADD/ADHD, and others.

Cost: $25-49 monthly