Posted by malcolm664 on June 12, 2007, at 17:47:40
I'm just wondering if there's an effective drug out there that will help improve memory. I seem to forget things two seconds after being told (sometimes repeatedly). Needless to say, people I've worked with over the years have found this to be very annoying. And it IS annoying. And frustrating.
And yes, I know that the standard strategy to compensate for memory issues is to take notes, take notes, take notes. Well this works provided that you actually have the time to take notes, or that people actually give you the time to take detailed notes, or that your notes make any sense when you have to come back and refer to them later. Or sometimes, a pen and paper just aren't always available at the exact time.
I've been on all of the standard ADD drugs (concerta, ritalin, desoxyn, etc) and none of them helped even the slightest. The only med I haven't yet tried is Provigil, but from everything I've been reading about it, it works similarly to the ADD drugs, so I'm not sure why it would be of any use.
I was recently diagnosed with a rare condition called "Non-Verbal Learning Disorder" (NVLD) which finally offered me some explanation for why I function the way I do. Of course, being a little known condition with no visible outward symptoms, people will only make allowances for disabilities that they can see, not ones they can't. But NVLD is very real.
Perhaps one of the reasons I keep posting to this board is in the hope that I'll find out about some unknown med that will reduce or eliminate my social anxiety and memory problems. Hope is about the only thing i have right now.
Malcolm
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