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Memory Loss & Lamictal
Fri, 08/12/2011 - 23:08Comments
Re: Memory Loss & Lamictal
Submitted by crasco1 on Sat, 2012-02-18 - 09:24
Ok, I'm scared now. I am just starting Lamictal just like all of you did. I am not yet having any of the side effects you speak of but then again I already have all of these side effects from the meds I have been taking prior to starting Lamictal. I am currently of 800 mgs per day of Topamax (Dopemax) which for the last 4 years has removed my memory of events that have happened in the last 4 years, my ability to concentrate and has made me extremely stupid; 2000 mgs per day of Keppra which makes me tired, out of breath and off balance PLUS I have a VNS implant that was install 6/2010 and I still have regular seizures. I will be 50 years old next month and in 2006 epilespy reared its ugly head when it had not been seen or heard from in 34 years. I had 3 seizures at the age of 11 and I have not been on any medication since I was 13 years old. I supposedly had grown out of this decease. In 2007 I lost my job, my drivers' license and had to go on disability. Then my husband divorced me and my grown children de-mothered me due to their ignorance of the effects and mood swings of this decease/medication. If I sound a bit hostile, you are probably right! Epilepsy has ruined much of my life, but I am tough and at this point I just need the seizures to STOP so I can get my license back, go back to work and move on with my life. I was hoping the Lamictal was going to be the last medication needed (as I have hope for every medication) but if it does not do that or the side effects are too great, than I will enroll myself in a drug research program and become a guinea pig to find the right drug or resort to brain surgery, if I can talk the insurance company into paying for it. If you gain nothing from this entry, please take this with you. DO NOT TAKE TOPAMAX!! It will frustrate you to no end when you cannot think of the smallest, easiest things you want to say or the name of people you have known for years. God bless to all.
Ok, I'm scared now. I am just starting Lamictal just like all of you did. I am not yet having any of the side effects you speak of but then again I already have all of these side effects from the meds I have been taking prior to starting Lamictal. I am currently of 800 mgs per day of Topamax (Dopemax) which for the last 4 years has removed my memory of events that have happened in the last 4 years, my ability to concentrate and has made me extremely stupid; 2000 mgs per day of Keppra which makes me tired, out of breath and off balance PLUS I have a VNS implant that was install 6/2010 and I still have regular seizures. I will be 50 years old next month and in 2006 epilespy reared its ugly head when it had not been seen or heard from in 34 years. I had 3 seizures at the age of 11 and I have not been on any medication since I was 13 years old. I supposedly had grown out of this decease. In 2007 I lost my job, my drivers' license and had to go on disability. Then my husband divorced me and my grown children de-mothered me due to their ignorance of the effects and mood swings of this decease/medication. If I sound a bit hostile, you are probably right! Epilepsy has ruined much of my life, but I am tough and at this point I just need the seizures to STOP so I can get my license back, go back to work and move on with my life. I was hoping the Lamictal was going to be the last medication needed (as I have hope for every medication) but if it does not do that or the side effects are too great, than I will enroll myself in a drug research program and become a guinea pig to find the right drug or resort to brain surgery, if I can talk the insurance company into paying for it. If you gain nothing from this entry, please take this with you. DO NOT TAKE TOPAMAX!! It will frustrate you to no end when you cannot think of the smallest, easiest things you want to say or the name of people you have known for years. God bless to all.
Re: Memory Loss & Lamictal
Submitted by metoo on Thu, 2012-02-16 - 23:50
Strange but I'm noticing the date this was posted which was the day after my birthday LAST YEAR! Problem is it just showed up on my email today Feb.16,2012 Anyway to answer your question I've been on Lamictal since I was 12 and I'll be 38 this year. Through out the years there have been mood changes but memory loss that is a tuff one because 1. I had surgery at the age of 17 on my left tempro lobe which improved my seizures (petite mal) I now have auras. The problem that was left is my memory went back yup instead of remember what happened yesterday I can tell you what happened two weeks ago. Before surgery I was clueless. 2. My memory has been getting worse but I was told I needed a secound surgery because a bit was left behind since I was awake durning the surgery IT WASN'T EASY... 3. Lamictal is the only medication that seems to work well with Topomax that joined in when I was about 20 or 21