Posted by 4WD on June 8, 2005, at 22:57:57
In reply to Re: least dumming AD's, posted by SLS on June 5, 2005, at 10:43:22
> > I know that depression can affect your cognition, but so can these medications. Of all the SSRI's you have taken, which have affected your cognition the least ??
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> > Even though effexor should (in theory at least) affect cognition the least I found it made me extrodinarily foggy ??
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> What about Prozac?
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> I have not tried Luvox nor Celexa. Effexor did make me feel numb and foggy in the beginning, but it dissipated after a few months while taking 300mg. I guess I was lucky.
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> Zoloft seemed to be OK. I don't remember having trouble with Prozac, although it has been some time since I have tried it. I might not have been as tuned-in to my cognition then as I am now.
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> Everyone is different in the way they react to medication - trite, I know - but it has become something of a mantra here. However, I believe you will find trends in the way a particular drug affects people. This was a good question to ask. I look forward to reading the responses.
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> As an aside, I am surprised by how many people have so far answered my question in a negative manner regarding their feelings towards Effexor, despite discounting its potential for producing a withdrawal syndrome upon discontinuation.
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> If you ever decide to lean in the direction of TCAs, I suffer absolutely no negative effects on cognition with nortriptyline. Imipramine made me dumber than I already am. Desipramine seems to be neutral, as does trimipramine. That's me.
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> - Scott
>Nortriptyline made me forgetful. DRiving down the road to a particular place, for example, I'd drive right by the turnoff, go blithely along for a couple miles before it would occur to me where I'd been going. No problems with imipramine that I can remember but that was 20 years ago. None with Celexa or Prozac. Emotional but not cognitive blunting with Effexor. Dumb as a post on Sinequan.
Marsha
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