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Originally Posted by r010159
I have had significant memory problems. I could not remember significant events in my past, my vocabulary in conversations was quite limited to simple words, and I spent allot of time finding the right word that only stood there on the tip of my tounge which stopped me in the middle of sentences. I often could not tell you what I did earlier in the day. I have been this way for several years!
I am on a different med cocktail now. I remember words like "instigate" and use it properly in a sentence at the moment I need it. I know what I did earlier in the day and even the day before this one. I am beginning to remember the specifics of events that happened in my life many years ago. And I can think through things of simple to moderate complexity.
What happened? I do not know! But it may have been the combination of medications that I had been on, or the result of a mind that was "disturbed" with mood swings and the associated cognitive deficits.
What do all of you think?
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I think it has to be a combination of meds and the manifestation of the disorder. I find that when I'm depressed the cognitive problems are greatly enhanced and my memory is terrible for short-term but I find old memories resurface much more than when I'm baseline or hypo.
I also take clonazepam and it definitely can affect my memory in higher doses. I call xanax the "memory eraser" because back in the day when I was younger, binge-drinking, and didn't give a fig about my bs "BP diagnosis", as I called it, I would get told about all the crazy **** I did while I was on it and not remember a thing. Pretty scary.