Posted by anniebananie on January 16, 2002, at 22:58:18
In reply to Re: I'm scared to death of Tegretol! Help!, posted by ivoovi on January 16, 2002, at 15:58:09
> I do have a question though - is depakote prone to causing mental fogginess?
Depakote did make me a bit foggy, but in retrospect, of all the anticonvulsants I've tried, it probably gave me the least cognitive problems. I was able to take two 4-credit college courses at the same time I was working fulltime on a TV series. But I gained alot of weight so I switched to neurontin and I stopped gaining weight and got a little stupider.> I used to be such a good writer, and had an extensive vocabulary but that is completely gone now!! I'm wondering if it's the Depakote or the NEurontin and if it'll go away?
I know just what you mean -- I bothered to learn all these polysyllabic words and now I can't get at them. Unfortunately they all cause word finding difficulties to one degree or another and it does not get better. Topamax was the absolute worst -- at a Thanksgiving dinner I could not conjure up the word sauerkraut and there was a big bowl of it in front of me. I want to tell people that I'm really not an idiot as I stand there muttering "starts with a d...um...it's kind of like deceit, but more complicated..um..." So far lamictal has done it less than the others and makes me generally less like underwater me, so I am putting up with a bit of weight gain. Too bad your doctor won't let you try it. Has he or she had bad experience with it, or just doesn't think it's right for you?Take care,
Annie
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