Posted by ed_uk2010 on March 21, 2010, at 14:35:18
In reply to Cognitive Impairment - SSRI, posted by vic80 on March 21, 2010, at 13:08:30
Are you taking Lexapro for depression or something else? If you're suffering from depression, perhaps you would benefit more from a non-serotonergic antidepressant such as nortriptyline.
> Whats gone wrong with me, I just cannot seem to think.
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> I downed my lex past 2 days to 15 mg (from 20mg) due to the fatigue I was feeling, but the decrease has done nothing and I am just feeling like a retard. I am just not able to make conversations anymore. When I am talking I seem to wander off in to nothingness.
> While reading anything I feel as though I am just mechanically reading things - nothing is registering anymore. As though I have no intellect.
> I seem to be in some zone - disconnected and unreal.
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> Its nice to not have any dark thoughts, but at the same time being someone who happens to have more than average self awareness, this zombie like state makes me so utterly disgusted - creates a deep inner-chaos - like I am trapped inside which I suspect might turn into dark thoughts yet again.
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> I also came across an intersting post on another forum where someone complained of ADHD like symptoms while on 32.5 mg of paroxetine, this person was sure it had to do with the extra SERT affecting the Dopamine levels.
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> Cognitive functions are defined as an intellectual process which constitutes awareness, memory, perception, intuition, thinking and creation of imagery etc.
> Shouldnt this brain slowness qualify as some sort of cognitive impairment? As this also answers my long standing problem of feeling like my mind is blank.
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> I am feeling drugged, divorced from myself and as though my mind is extremely tired.
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> I feel my physical energy levels arent down though, just that my brain seems to have slowed down. As though everything is in slow motion, and I seem to be forgetting things too.
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> I wonder how much of a culprit would my 0.5 mg nightly Lunesta be in all this.
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> Should I just blame lexapro?
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> I fear further downing the dose of Lex may bring me back into depression/anxiety but staying in the zombie zone could make me reach there soon enough too.
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> I am absolutely scared of antipsychotics, plus it doesnt look easy for me to get my pdoc into writing a prescription for any.
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> Should I just take the risk of going back to 10mg or try and hang in the 15-20 mg slot to see if my brain fatigue and drugginess goes away?
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> Is cognitive impairment a common side effect of SSRIs, and if so is it a permanent damage - I have been on lex for just 10 weeks now.
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