We are now entering into our second month of our participation in the Memantine clinical research study at Children's National Hospital in Washington DC.
So far we have noticed a small increase in use of "typical" language in most sentences as well as larger sentence formation. We are thrilled to have a new understanding for what is going on inside our 11yr old's head!
Negative side effects that we have seemed to find that correlate with the use of Memantine are headaches, seeming nauseous (I say this carefully as autistic kids can not verbalize exactly what ill feelings they are having), tiredness and much more stim behaviors. We have taken to advil, dramamine and Son Rise Therapy to help lessen the severity of these things and are hoping to see less frequency in the future.
So far we have noticed a small increase in use of "typical" language in most sentences as well as larger sentence formation. We are thrilled to have a new understanding for what is going on inside our 11yr old's head!
Negative side effects that we have seemed to find that correlate with the use of Memantine are headaches, seeming nauseous (I say this carefully as autistic kids can not verbalize exactly what ill feelings they are having), tiredness and much more stim behaviors. We have taken to advil, dramamine and Son Rise Therapy to help lessen the severity of these things and are hoping to see less frequency in the future.
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