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Memory Loss & Lamictal
Fri, 08/12/2011 - 23:08Comments
Re: Memory Loss & Lamictal
Submitted by kattatstrophe on Sat, 2011-08-13 - 23:00
Re: Memory Loss & Lamictal
Submitted by lilahn1 on Sun, 2011-08-14 - 22:06
I know what you mean. I sometimes think that I am being obnoxious because I ask or say something more than once. My husband and family understand but I get self conscious around people I don't know. I have mentioned it to my neurologist and he told me that it could be a side effect, as well as trouble concentrating and tiredness. He told me that for my specific situation the side effects did not out weigh the risk of me having more siezures. The combination of the lamictal and topamax were controlling me pretty well. Other meds have not helped me as well in the past. He just recently up my dose of Lamotrigene from 600 mg/ day to 900 mg / day cause I started having breakthrough seizures. Ever since he uped the dose was when I started with the word mixup things. That doesn't happen all the time, but at least a couple times a day. So anyways, yes I have talked to him and I am talking to a specialist in October to discuss a temporal lobectomy to remove the scar tissue. It would be awesome to be seizure free and possibly medication free someday.
I know what you mean. I sometimes think that I am being obnoxious because I ask or say something more than once. My husband and family understand but I get self conscious around people I don't know. I have mentioned it to my neurologist and he told me that it could be a side effect, as well as trouble concentrating and tiredness. He told me that for my specific situation the side effects did not out weigh the risk of me having more siezures. The combination of the lamictal and topamax were controlling me pretty well. Other meds have not helped me as well in the past. He just recently up my dose of Lamotrigene from 600 mg/ day to 900 mg / day cause I started having breakthrough seizures. Ever since he uped the dose was when I started with the word mixup things. That doesn't happen all the time, but at least a couple times a day. So anyways, yes I have talked to him and I am talking to a specialist in October to discuss a temporal lobectomy to remove the scar tissue. It would be awesome to be seizure free and possibly medication free someday.
Re: Memory Loss & Lamictal
Submitted by lilahn1 on Sat, 2011-08-13 - 22:34
I also take Lamotragine and I have a lot of problems with my memory. I have been on Lamotragine for about 6 years and I take 900 mg / day, (300 mg 3 x a day). I am 26 and feel like I'm 80 sometimes. I can sometimes forget something that someone tells me 10 minutes after they say it. I feel sometimes like I ask the same questions over and over cause I can't remember if I asked it already... I could go to a certian place a dozen times and still have to ask my husband for directions on how to get there. I do forget dates for dr appt. and hair cuts, things like that, so I have to use an alarm reminder in my cell phone. I can certainly tell a defferance in the way I think now and the way I did before all this medication. I also take Topamax 300 mg/day. When I sit down to concentration on something, I just feel cloudy and it is hard. It takes me a lot longer to think about things and make decisions. Another thing that I have started to notice is that every now and then I say the wrong word in a sentence when I'm talking then have to correct myself. For example if I'm walking out to the car with someone I'll say "Lets get in the can .... I mean car" It sounds silly but I do it sometimes and it makes me feel stupid. So I know how you feel because I also feel incompetent sometimes. I feel like it is my medication playing a big role.