Posted by Cybele on October 11, 2003, at 23:36:41
In reply to Re: depression or something else - always tired?, posted by Merci on October 11, 2003, at 18:54:28
Merci wrote "After several years of trying many medication combinations (with some success) to treat my depression, I was diagnosed with sleep apnea. Sleep apnea causes all kinds of problems like memory loss and problems concentrating. Your symptoms sound so similar to mine - I would forget the names of people and streets I'd known for 20 years; I've been reading the same novel since March because it is so difficult to concentrate. I left grad. school because as hard as I tried, I could keep up with the reading or follow what the professors were saying. It was just too hard to concentrate on what they were saying and I no longer felt like the capable student that I once was."
I had the memory loss and problems concentrating that you describe when I took Paxil for 6 weeks. Paxil screwed up my REM sleep pretty badly. I almost lost my job because I couldn't get anything done. My brain was a sieve and I could not stay at task more than 10 seconds. My mind would just drift off...
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