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Originally Posted by Tsunamisurfer
I'm on 300mg Lamotrigine, 1000mg of Valproic acid and 4mg Risperidone. I have poor executive functioning and memory.
My pdoc says some of it may be from meds, but (very encouragingly) suggested that it was a cumulative part of the illness: Fry your brain often enough (mania, depression or psychosis) and you pick up some brain damage.
I sincerely hope it is 99% meds.
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This is the reason I'm on disability now: I have CRS (Can't Remember S###). I think all the episodes I've had, plus the meds, have added up to a cluster-mug of epic proportions. I can forget stuff two seconds after someone tells me something. I lose my train of thought in the middle of sentences. I can't remember names or think of the word for something I'm talking about! I call it bipolar brain-fade.
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