Briefly, yes.
However, prolonged, untreated depression does the same thing.
So the question would be one of timing.
Age also plays a factor. So do other medications you take.
So it really isn't an easy question to answer.

Sounds like now that I have been thinking about this as I am writing it, the best thing you can do is to talk directly with your doctor...and also read those horrid, long listings of side-effects on the patient information sheet you got for that particular drug.

Take care~BB

Yes. But I was prone to that for a long time while my depression was untreated. I would go through what I called "mini blackouts". My body was doing everything it was supposed to, but my mind wasn't exactly there, and I had no recollection of it. Sometimes it was 30 seconds, sometimes 10 minutes, sometimes even half a day. I spoke to my doctor about it, and she said its not that my mind went blank and I had forgotten about something. Its that my mind was thinking 1000 other things at that same moment that it couldn't retain the short-term memory of what was actually occurring.

Talk to your doctor. Like byzbee said, it could be a lot of different factors involved.

When I looked up side effects on the internet, it did mention forgetfulness as a serious side effect and said to contact your doctor immediately. I am having trouble with people's names. I always had an excellent memory previously. I am very scared.

Yes, I have a lot of problems with memory. My family keeps blaming it on the ECT I had, but I now realize it is due to some of the meds I'm on. It is very frustrating.

I know this is an older thread by now, but I found it while doing a search for ECT on here.

I too am having memory problems that stared a few years ago and have gotten worse. I am 46 years old and have taken a LOT of meds over the years.

One thing you can do is sign up for lumosity.com brain training games to help promote regeneration and spark healing activity in various parts of your brain. I signed up but never do them and need to get on some sort of a schedule. They can also help with depression.

Uncontrolled depression can also lead to damage to parts of the brain is what I have been reading - something about a smaller hypothalamus over time for one thing.

I have the problem of not using rights and seeing worse differently than what they really are and I have to look a second time and realize I understood what I read totally differently.

OK. See what I just did with that last post? I just re-read it and totally typed the wrong words with little thought as i was doing it. This is a problem I've been having the past year especially.

I meant to say, "I have the problem of not using the right words and seeing words differently..."

Talk about scary for me.....

when I was on 450 mg. of Lamictal for over a year or so, this all got very noticeable.