Posted by shasling on January 19, 2006, at 20:00:24
In reply to Cognitive Trouble anyone?, posted by gibber on January 16, 2006, at 8:37:02
> I wanted to bounce something off you guys. I've had trouble functioning sometimes not because I'm very depressed but more because cognitively I'm just slowed down. Over the years I've lost a certain sharpness as a result, I think, because of the depression. Sort of a secondary symptom caused by the first. To be specific, my memory is poor coming up with peoples names or simply just communicated with ease and always having the right word at hand. Nardil has been helping the depression but at times during the day my mind will cloud over and I won't be able to handle a phone call as easily as I did an hour ago. I may go up to 60mg of Nardil soon and maybe the depression with alleviate some more. I'm hoping that with depression gone the cognitive function will come back. I've alway wanted to try selegiline and phenylalanine for its supposed cognitive enhancing abilities. Can anyone else relate to feeling stupid?
I take DMAE every day and it helps. Also, my doc started me on hydergine. So mine is really much better now - I very rarely fall into that black cognitive hole anymore. There are lots of nootropics which would probably help, if you have a cooperative doc: aricept, memantine, piracetam etc... DMAE is OTC but still fairly effective.
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