Guest guest Posted September 22, 2003 Report Share Posted September 22, 2003 Samchigirl,Memantine is used to treat people with moderate to severe alzheimers. .x Memantine Anyone heard of this drug? It's apparently in use in Europe to treat Altzheimers, with better results than Exelon, Reminyl and Aricept. Not released in the US yet, but I'm wondering if anyone has an experience with it in Canada/UK/Australia/NZ or any of the other countries we may be reaching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 23, 2003 Report Share Posted September 23, 2003 Yes Memantine( Ebixa, it's brand name) is used here for the treatment of moderately severe to severe Alzheimers. It was launched here in October 02. It's different from all other drugs used to treat alzheimers here in the UK as they are all used to treat mild to moderate stages of the disease. It is not licensed here to treat any other type of dementia, although i do know that there is research being done into it's use with Vascular Dementia, as a result it may one day be open for use with LBD as sufferers often(like my granda) have TIA's and heart problems, the only thing i would tend to worry about though is it has to be given with caution to people with heart problems and BP problems so unless the research rules otherwise it may not help LBD at all. One of the side effects of this drug are hallucinations therefore if it was taken with other LBD drugs you would still have the same 'one cancelling out the other effect', like with quetiapine and madopar. So overall i think at the end of the day, the only way to find out whether it works or not is to give it to people, after all that's what has been going on with the neuroleptic drugs which were only ever meant for people with Schzophrenia and are now used to treat LBD hallucinations. .x Memantine Anyone heard of this drug? It's apparently in use in Europe to treat Altzheimers, with better results than Exelon, Reminyl and Aricept. Not released in the US yet, but I'm wondering if anyone has an experience with it in Canada/UK/Australia/NZ or any of the other countries we may be reaching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 13, 2004 Report Share Posted January 13, 2004 Is it used for memory or what??? I was watching a show about 12:30am this morning and it had a part about getting it from abroad and it not yet being available here. Interesting!!!! Jayn in S GA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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