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Posted 11/23/2010 6:53 AM (GMT 0)
Does anybody else have a problem with their short-term memory?  And if so, is it the drugs or the disorder?  It's quite bizarre but i used to be brilliant at remembering numbers.  Most of the time i can remember 4 digit codes now but sometimes my mind is a completely blank slate. and the slate remains clean for an entire day.  I also used to remember faces and names, but now this has become a real challenge.  For example, i have been dating this guy for 2 years now. We started seeing each other every couple of months and now we are seeing each other almost once a week.  The bizarre part:  i have a helluva time remembering what he looks like.  And yes, he is good looking.

Is your short-term questionable?

Posted 11/23/2010 1:58 PM (GMT 0)
Yes. My pdocs have noted "impaired recent memory", "impaired remote memory" and "conceptual disorganization." This was off meds. I don't know if/which meds could cause memory problems.
Posted 11/23/2010 5:35 PM (GMT 0)
Lorazepam caused this for me.

Posted 11/24/2010 2:59 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Mogs - good to see you 'round again. :)
Posted 11/24/2010 11:54 PM (GMT 0)
I have short-term memory problems - was trying to memorize a poem the other day and had it down.  Tried to remember it several hours later and couldn't.  It is very frustrating - really hard time with people's names.  I think it is definitely due to the medications.  Would like to have a clear, fog-free head, but the cost of losing my stability is too high.  Makes me mad.

 

Posted 12/5/2010 3:44 AM (GMT 0)
I have short term memory problems for example forget co-workers names, and some work functiuons I have done hundreds of times before. So the memory problems together with spacing out makes work real fun. Dr wrote a letter to boss to effect my meds have side effects of memory focus and other problems. Am not sure if the moods before I was diagnosed were worse than my foggy head.

1500 Lithium, 100 mg Lamotrigine, 10 mg Ambien, .05 Clonazepam
Posted 12/5/2010 10:55 PM (GMT 0)
yep, same here. my short term memory is bad, very very. ....................SQUIRREL. ................ what were we talking about????? tongue tongue tongue tongue plus I get distracted. ........... SQUIRREL. ............ easily. OL LOL LOL LOL. sometimes you just have to laugh at this disorder.
Posted 12/6/2010 3:55 AM (GMT 0)
OMG Bill that's so SQUIRREL! funny. It made the movie worth SQUIRREL! watching. :D LOLOL You just made my night!
Posted 12/6/2010 12:17 PM (GMT 0)
 

    Ok, now that i had my fun i also have short term memory problems. What i do is i have a white board on my refrigritor and i write all my appoitments on it.  Plus what i need from the store. Then when i go to the store i take a quick cell phone snapshot so i can take it with me.

    As for names and such, well that is life. I cna only fix so much, and in the end i just accept that i am how i  am.

  Bill

Posted 12/9/2010 5:28 AM (GMT 0)
My short term memory is so bad.  The family is always arguing with me over something I discussed with them and I have no memory fo it.  If I didn't jot down notes when I am working with a couple in counseling, ten minutes after they left, I usually have forgotten what the session is about .  My list is long and my pdoc blames the meds, except I haven't had a med change in over 2 years....so why would this get worse?  To me it is partially the BP since it is easy for my mind to get distracted when I am "happy" and my brain tends to shut down when I am depressed.  Then, Iam 62 yrs old and what really bothers me is you don't see many "old" BP running around   so do they get so bad on memory thay are "put away" or do all the zillion pills they swallow in a lifetime of being bi=polar shorten their life span?  SSo, all this ramibling around to say yes, I have significant short term memory loss that attribute to both the meds and beibg BP.
Posted 7/30/2011 12:17 PM (GMT 0)
A few years ago I was taking the drug fioricet at the rate of 90 per week and even then still run out. I decided oneday to stop cold turkey. After I stopped taking the meds I ended up in ICU for a week. Now ever since my short term memory is gone. My family getas so annoyed but I truely can not help it. I just cany figure out why and I have no health ins to go to a dr, any suggestions please.
Posted 8/2/2011 5:33 AM (GMT 0)
I have a very difficult time with short term memory loss. I figured it was caused by both the anxiety and stress and also the meds. I find that I have a very difficult following any type of instructions, can't sit and watch a movie or read a book. Anyone else?

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Posted 4/18/2012 10:33 PM (GMT 0)
i can totally relate to the short-term memory problem. sometimes it almost scares me how bad it gets. I've noticed it ever since i started taking meds 8 years ago and it's gotten increasingly worse. i asked my pdoc about it and he said its definitely the meds.
Posted 4/18/2012 11:39 PM (GMT 0)
I get amnesia if I take clonazepam nore than 2 - 3 days in a row. It's embarassing!
Posted 4/19/2012 4:42 PM (GMT 0)
Along with short term memory issues, I can not come up with the words that I need. Or I will say a word that totally doesn't fit. Such as "Lets go to the store and get some rattlefrabs." Drives me NUTS
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