What antipsychotic are you guys on, I feel that abilify and risperidone both made my memory worse
Plan to study so need a good antipsychotic that doesn’t affect memory as much
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I found out that I still had memory and cognitive problems even after stopping meds for a year.
Cognitive symptoms like bad memory are part of schizophrenia, the third symptoms category. I pretty much think they’re permanent, maybe from the brain shrinking caused by schizophrenia.
There is no meds for cognitive symotoms of sz because there isn’t for dementia and Alzheimer either.
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Also I had cognitive and memory problens way before I had sz. Research and Wikipedia says cognitive and memory issues are the earliest signs of sz.
My memory got better when I am off antipsychotic so I believe it’s the side effects that affects it
If it really did, that’s good for you.
Antipsychotics don’t have any cognitive or memory side effects. Benzodiazepines do.
You can read on Wikipedia.
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There’s a book about that since it could involve NAC, L-Theanine, Mucunua Pruriens, like when I took Seroquel. Something about that isn’t in a medication, it’s just in a book.
How did you do being off of meds for that long?
Bad, I had paranoia, hallucinations and delusions.
I went to Germany thinking I am the next Hitler.
I ended up in mental hospital later, luckily I was back home by then.
My relapse is usually once a year without any persistent symptoms in between
Hi there
I am on Abilify, (have been for at least 14 years) and its funny you should mention memory loss. I’ve been getting that a lot and my son keeps saying ‘mum you need to go see a doctor about your memory’’. I thought at first that the memory lapses were caused by my Chemo fog/brain , I had chemotherapy 6 years ago for cancer. I also had a mini stroke where they did a brain procedure on me 2 years ago so I attributed the memory loss to that. Be interesting to see if anyone else’s memory is affected by Abilify.
What are you studying Swordiebrom? I took a year out from studying. I did an Ancient Greek course 2018 - 2019! Good luck with it!
@swordiebrom @jenny8022 Cognitive symptoms are caused by sz not meds:
"Cognitive symptoms
Cognitive deficits are the earliest and most constantly found symptoms in schizophrenia. They are a core feature but not considered to be core symptoms, as are positive and negative symptoms. However, their presence and degree of dysfunction is taken as a better indicator of functionality than the presentation of core symptoms.
The deficits in cognition are seen to drive the negative psychosocial outcome in schizophrenia, and are claimed to equate to a possible reduction in IQ from the norm of 100 to 70–85. Cognitive deficits may be of neurocognition (nonsocial) or of social cognition. Neurocognition is the ability to receive and remember information, and includes verbal fluency, memory, reasoning, problem solving, speed of processing, and auditory and visual perception. Verbal memory impairment is associated with a decreased level of semantic processing (relating meaning to words). Another memory impairment is that of episodic memory. Social cognition is concerned with the mental operations needed to interpret, and understand the self and others in the social world. This is also an associated impairment, and facial emotion perception is often found to be difficult. Facial perception is critical for ordinary social interaction."
Comp sci what’s your dosage, how have you deal with the memory loss
Antipsychotic can cause some memory issue also. https://www.google.com/amp/s/srconstantin.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/antipsychotics-might-cause-cognitive-impairment/amp/
My Psyk told me the same thing and meta analysis claims so as well
Idk how much but my psychiatrist didn’t say it causes memory issue and from my experience with stopping meds for year my memory stayed the same, bad without and bad with meds.
I guess meds don’t have the same effect on everyone.
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