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Memory Loss & Lamictal
Fri, 08/12/2011 - 23:08Comments
Re: Memory Loss & Lamictal
Submitted by jacindamaudlin on Thu, 2012-01-19 - 10:43
I'm sorry I am coming in late on this conversation but I do take Lamictal 300mg/day but before I comment I had a few questions. I am new to the site so I don't know all of the details yet.
I was in a motor vehicle accident 3 years ago and had a temporal lobe brain injury. I am left with complex partial seizures. So I have not dealt with this my whole life. I am so sorry for those of you who have. It is awful. I am on more than one seizure medicine is everyone else too? I have more to comment but I wanted to make sure I wasn't in the wrong forum before I did.
Thank you!!
I'm sorry I am coming in late on this conversation but I do take Lamictal 300mg/day but before I comment I had a few questions. I am new to the site so I don't know all of the details yet.
I was in a motor vehicle accident 3 years ago and had a temporal lobe brain injury. I am left with complex partial seizures. So I have not dealt with this my whole life. I am so sorry for those of you who have. It is awful. I am on more than one seizure medicine is everyone else too? I have more to comment but I wanted to make sure I wasn't in the wrong forum before I did.
Thank you!!
Re: Memory Loss & Lamictal
Submitted by keaze on Wed, 2012-01-18 - 23:54
I've been on tegretol 200mg/600mg for about 6 years. It causes the exact same problem. I forgot my whole life. My childhood memories, gone. My teenager memories, almost completely gone. I can't function at all, I can't remember how to properly handle a conversation. I've lost all my friends. And believe it or not I'm currently transitioning to lamictal and thinking it will be better. When i read all of your posts i just think to myself : "HAHA". Right. Of COURSE it will get better........ *sigh*. One of you said you will stop medication and deal with the seizures. Without medication i have 35 to 50 seizures per day. .. How can i deal with that?
The memory loss comes from the seizures destroying the brain??? Give me a break! That is absolutely not true. I spent 5 years with seizures because i had been misdiagnosed as Tourettes (talk about a retarded neurologist). I had zero memory problems back then. They started when I got on the medication.
Anyways. I'm now in the process of reassuring myself that it will be okay. I will spend my life as a dumb, slow, forgetful person, quite often perceived as retarded, since people cannot understand what we are going through every. single. day. How could they?
I have a question for you guys. Has any of you known or lived to tell the story about if memory comes back once you're off medication? I think i read somewhere that it doesnt... oh well..
I've been on tegretol 200mg/600mg for about 6 years. It causes the exact same problem. I forgot my whole life. My childhood memories, gone. My teenager memories, almost completely gone. I can't function at all, I can't remember how to properly handle a conversation. I've lost all my friends. And believe it or not I'm currently transitioning to lamictal and thinking it will be better. When i read all of your posts i just think to myself : "HAHA". Right. Of COURSE it will get better........ *sigh*. One of you said you will stop medication and deal with the seizures. Without medication i have 35 to 50 seizures per day. .. How can i deal with that?
The memory loss comes from the seizures destroying the brain??? Give me a break! That is absolutely not true. I spent 5 years with seizures because i had been misdiagnosed as Tourettes (talk about a retarded neurologist). I had zero memory problems back then. They started when I got on the medication.
Anyways. I'm now in the process of reassuring myself that it will be okay. I will spend my life as a dumb, slow, forgetful person, quite often perceived as retarded, since people cannot understand what we are going through every. single. day. How could they?
I have a question for you guys. Has any of you known or lived to tell the story about if memory comes back once you're off medication? I think i read somewhere that it doesnt... oh well..