Amantadine can cause drowsiness. The effect wore off fast for me when I started taking the 50mg dose. It takes time for it to help anyone with MS fatigue (sometimes months), and I didn't notice any difference for a couple of weeks when I first started taking it, but a week is a long time for the sedative effect to last… I feel drugged for a little while… and I already face such a huge problem with fatigue and don't need that.

I usually wake up at 6am, but don't take my pills until 8 because of the rare occasion when I wake up later. My pdoc suggested I take my pills earlier and try taking the amantadine a couple of hours after that because combining it with seroquel could be causing the sedative effect. If that doesn't work, I'll go back to taking 50mg in the am, and try taking the bigger 100mg in the afternoon when I really need it and it's less likely to be influenced by other meds.

I had zero mental health complaints for my pdoc at our appointment yesterday I'm feeling very good And I don't have to see her for another six weeks
She was upset that nobody from the office got back to me when I called to ask what to do when I took my nighttime meds by accident, and said if something like that ever happens again to go straight to paging the on-call doctor.

We just lit the last candle I made so it's about time for me to make more. I might order more supplies so I can vary them or make a bigger batch so I probably won't get to making any candles until next week, but I'm looking forward to it