[eseb]

Hello, everyone. I was not sure where to post this.

I have been having cognitive issues, increasingly so.

I am going to school for writing, and I use to get A's with ease for all of my papers regardless of the college or the professor. However, lately, no matter where or what I type, I notice that what I was thinking and what I type are two different things.

For example, I wanted to type, "I don't watch tv very often," and instead typed, "I don't want tv very often." (and when I tried to type this here, I typed want again and had to fix it)

Things like that happen very frequently. Random words are replaced by some other word. It happens when I speak at times too, but not as often and I only know it happens when someone corrects me.

It isn't like confusing words. I don't mix up where and were or their, there, and they're. These words usually have similar letters, but are not really related.

The only medicine that I am on right now for anything mental health related (fibromyalgia and insomnia) is Neurontin, but my anxiety has been through the roof and I've had boughts of depression on and off. Both of these came up on my psych eval and my number thing on here.

Any thoughts or reasons for this? Anything I can do to fix it? Usually, even if I reread what I wrote, it says what I thought until I go back and look days later and then I'm like what the heck did I type.

[optimize990h]

Have you had any feedback from health professionals and the people here at PC who may have similar medications and/or combination of medications?

Each person's body responses to meds differently and the side effects of such medications may vary in timing, intensity and types of side effects. Myself, for example, my attention and concentration may get worse as the day goes on and be intensified by the antidepressant and hs medications I take as well. I just know this from monitoring my reactions to meds over a period of time.

On the other hand, a cup of coffee works out better for concentration than other days. I think I should be keeping a journal just on these observations for my situation so I feel more confident in knowing what is causing possible cognitive issues.

I can only sympathize because of my own experiences. I do not know whether your pharmacist would have time to discuss this with you or your primary doctor. Perhaps even a nurse practitioner would be a useful reference as well. If you go prepared with previously research material you have gathered on the internet, then that may be helpful as well(for the health professionals to understand where to start and the depth of information required.)

Take what you like, leave the rest behind.

[eseb]

My rheumatologist only sees me like every 4 months and she doesn't listen to me about the meds insisting that I need to see a pdoc for more complicated med combinations. She's the only one in the area I can go to.

I start back to therapy in May, but she's not a psychiatrist, so I doubt she'd touch the med issues.

Cymbalta was helping me with the depression and the pain from fibromyalgia, but it was far too expensive to continue to buy and there is no guarantees that I can keep getting samples.

I came here to see if anyone had similar issues. I'm not 100% sure it is med related, but I will say that you are the only response that I have had, so thank you!

[Cocosurviving]

I have a few meds that cause me to have cognitive
dysfunctions. I encourage you to speak w/ your
pdoc.