not my med smoken weed did that to me.. i hope it come back soon

When I was on and getting off Paxil I had speech problems. I don't know if meds mess up my memory, or if I just have the problem all on it's own. I've thought I had alzheimers since I was around 30. I had it put in my medical record.

Yes, you pay a price for takeing meds.

I honestly can't remember, froggy...and I spent almost 2 hours today trying to remember to hang up a butterfly in the bedroom...

LOL (whatever THat means, lol)

yes i have a bad memory.i think its from all the meds..

My memory is impaired from ECT, and the meds just make it worse. My pdoc says I have CRAFT (cant remember a fucking thing!) I have a great shrink, but I cant remember his name. LOL!!!

Meds have screwed up all whats left of my memory. Drugs and alcohol fried part of my brain. When I am not having an anxiety attack my speech is OK.

OK for a bipolar, OCD, addict alcoholic that is.

my short term memory is pretty crappy these days. i frequently walk into a room and forget what i was doing.

also, i used to NEVER make spelling mistakes (literally) and now i misspell things more and more.

i'm sure it's the meds.

i figure it's a small price to pay for my sanity.

Yes, mine affect my memory. I'm forgetting items at the store, even with lists.

And I can't remember simple words sometimes. My mind just goes blank.

One of the meds I take for bipolar is Topamax and through some research I did find out it causes memory problems and alot of times when Im talking I cant find the right words to say so I just stumble around and sound like an idiot. It also causes you to not be able to concentrate, focus and do simple math in your head. Sounds like a med from hell but it works really good. Im sure alot of the bipolar meds have similar side effects.

Yes, for sure. I also take Topamax as Stressedout mentioned, it's also referred to as "Dopamax" , LOL! It's not so bad now, but initially when I started this med it was like dar dar dah da da dahhh! No more problems with word retrieval anymore fortunately. Lamictal is another med I take which I believe contributes to the "dahs". But as Snow so eloquently phrased it, it is a small price to pay for sanity & I'll take it!

I too had a few too many illicit drug fuel nights, years of smoking pot. Not sure whether it was the drugs or the meds or a combination of both, my memory sucks poo :((

Yeah, I've been having that problem A LOT lately. I too wonder if it's the meds, but I myself have been suffering delusions, so who knows? I forget phone numbers of friends I have known for years...both their home numbers, and cell numbers. Today, or was it yesterday, I had to check to see what year it was...07, or 08. Many times, I will be talking or writing and will come to a certain word I cannot think of for the life of me, and it's always something very simple. Being a writer, this really ticks me off! I hear my sis talk of things, memories she cannot believe I can't remember. Until recently, I have always remembered the past in vivid detail. Now, things are so cloudy. I even sometimes forget names.

Make it stop!

I've noticed that since the increase of Lithium that my short term memory is crap. Occasionaly, my long term memory is crap. Also, it is like I have gotten "dumber". It is like the things I would normally know, I don't know. My only advice to you is to keep on the medicine you are taking if it is working. Learn how to deal with the adverse effects.

Hi Froggy,

Looking at the meds that you are on, only Lamictal is normally associated with memory mess-ups. Pretty much all anti-convulsants mess with memory and cognition (Lamictal, Topamax, Trileptal, Keppra, Neurontin, etc.).

As far as speech getting screwed up, I noticed that my speech got slurry when my neuro had me on a heavy duty benzo combined with ACs. Perhaps Zyprexa could have the same effect?

Dymphna