Posted by garnet71 on April 7, 2009, at 18:57:49
In reply to Re: Who has taken Klonpin for anxiety? » garnet71, posted by metric on April 7, 2009, at 17:23:54
So if benzos cause memory loss - is the process of memory destruction similar to say, Alzheimer's. I mean, is it permanent?
I've already had lots of memory loss. I remember (haha-remember) in my teens and early 20s, I used to be able to memorize at least 3 dozen phone and fax numbers at work, long distance ones, with no effort. I was the phone book of the office and people would come to me all the time and I would just spit out the number w/o thinking...geez back in the days of Rolodexes..lol. Now, I have to think of my son's or close friends phone numbers and barely can remember just those.
I've taken Xanax and Ativan off/on over the past 8 years or so; have taken antidepresants too. Just wondering. It's odd, I can't remember vocabulary very well either. Only if there is context to connect it, though if I try really hard, like having to memorize things for school, I can create context/make it up to link with absolute type things. I never used to be like that, never had to try hard.
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