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concentration and memory with Verapamil
« on: Aug 19th, 2003, 12:59pm » |
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I was wondering if anyone experienced a negative change in his or her concentration and memory while using verapamil and on what dose?
currenly I am on 3x120 slow release
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #1 on: Aug 20th, 2003, 10:27am » |
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30 hits and no-one so far hmmmm......
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #2 on: Aug 20th, 2003, 10:41am » |
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I can't recall ... lol.. if I lose any sense of concentration or memory when I'm taking my verap. Though I'm only on 240mg per day (I can never remember if it's the SR or the ER version though).
When my next cycle comes around, which might be sooner than I thought, I'll have to keep tabs on that one.
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720/day. I notice no marked memory or concentration effects.
I was thinking today that I seem to function through all the various meds I try for CH while others report disruptive side-effects. I write it off to a past life of many years of illicit drug and alchohol use. I somehow learned to function in various states of mental disrepair....and now just slide through any weirdness that the "legal" drugs offer.
I been down so goddamned long.... it looks like up to me.
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #4 on: Aug 21st, 2003, 3:27am » |
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I'm a chronic and have been on verapamil 240 2X a day for about a year and a half and haven't noticed any problems yet.
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #5 on: Aug 21st, 2003, 8:50am » |
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I currently take 300 mg sustained release (have been taking for 1.5 years) - no problems for me. I do, however, have a dramatic loss of memory and concentration just before a cycle starts and this lasts to the end of a cycle. That along with fatigue/depressoin are sure signs a cycle is about to start. Just curious, are you eposidic or chronic?
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #6 on: Aug 21st, 2003, 6:27pm » |
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episodic I think, though never had a cycle last so long, almost three months now but doing well with verapamil
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #7 on: Aug 22nd, 2003, 8:02am » |
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I've taken 3x180 mg for 8-10 weeks, used verapamil on last 3 or 4 cycles (episodic).
I sense no loss of concentration or memory due strictly to the verapamil. I do feel a slow-down during the first few weeks of starting verapamil.
Apart from the verapamil, however, there is some loss of concentration in general with CH, IMO. This seems to coincide with increased irritability and depression which may either be purely psychological or a chemical mechanism associated with CH.
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #8 on: Aug 26th, 2003, 12:25pm » |
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keep forgetting small things, lost my car cd front, still missing turns at intersections I took over a million times, can't remember where I put papers or what I was supposed to do...
but considering I have been HA free for almost two whole weeks now it's not so bad after all 
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #9 on: Aug 27th, 2003, 3:51pm » |
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I'm 24 years old and my memory is already shit. I'm not sure if it's due to Verapamil, Celexa or simply age. What did I just say? 
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #10 on: Aug 27th, 2003, 6:36pm » |
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uhhhhhhhh.........................?
wait, let me read it back ;D
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #11 on: Aug 29th, 2003, 2:22pm » |
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What was the question again?!?!? oh yea.. not really sure if its the verapamil or all the other shit I take, or like Jewel, my age... but memory has gone to shit!!!
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #12 on: Sep 5th, 2003, 7:30pm » |
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on this dose for over a month now and it is DEFINATELY the verapamil screwing with my memory...
but still wortth not getting the CH 4 to 6 times a day...
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #13 on: Sep 6th, 2003, 8:06am » |
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I'm not on Verap but the past few years my memory and concentration have been CRAP and I'm only 26 hmmm wonder how bad my memory will be when im 76?
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #14 on: Sep 6th, 2003, 11:05am » |
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on Aug 19th, 2003, 12:59pm, Cooked Brain wrote:
I was wondering if anyone experienced a negative change in his or her concentration and memory while using verapamil and on what dose?
currenly I am on 3x120 slow release
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No, and on 480mg SR for now. Topamax on the other hand, definately killed my concentration/short-term memory.
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #15 on: Sep 6th, 2003, 5:21pm » |
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will check thoroughly this with the neuro on wednesday...
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #16 on: Sep 8th, 2003, 3:13am » |
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I have taken Verampamiel slow relees at almost all dosages the hyest 800mg per day. At the moment I am just taking 80 mg a day.and to my surprise it works better. I had to dramaticly reduse the dosage because I was totaly blocked ( constipation). Wonder why the neuros always start with 3 x 80 and not 2 x 40. The memory los and lak of concentration in my case is due to CH. I am cronic and in my cicel within cronic Ch I am no goed for anything. During these periods I often have difficulty keeping a normal conversation.
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #17 on: Sep 8th, 2003, 9:25am » |
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you want memory loss? tell the doc to put you on topomax you wont remember your own name after awhile, if you fed your dog anytime in the last month, ect.... i didnt take verap long enough to notice memory loss but as i posted earlier, i think cafergot is the same thing as verap and im pretty stupid on this stuff too.
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #18 on: Sep 8th, 2003, 2:54pm » |
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verapamil and caffergot are NOT the same nathan!
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #19 on: Sep 9th, 2003, 9:25am » |
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scheduled for the next neuro appt tomorrow, feelin great, gonna thank him SO much... ;D
will ask him about the memory.
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #20 on: Sep 10th, 2003, 5:15pm » |
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so saw the neuro again today, he said that the memory issue is caused by the cycle itself and partially by the verapamil, cutting down to 2x 120 for three weeks and than 1x120 for another three weeks and that's when I should know if I am through or not...
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #21 on: Sep 17th, 2003, 6:10pm » |
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SLOW RELEASE!!! Get the picture!! concentration is a four letter word ,S--T !!!!!!!! And all this time I thought it was the lithium!!! Better get yourself a pad and pen!!! Good Luck!!! Chris
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #22 on: Sep 17th, 2003, 8:18pm » |
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Yep. But I don't take verapimil anymore (not in YEARS)..... ??? Have taken a HUGE assortment of preventatives. So, either it's the meds or it's a sub-symptom of clusters.  I wonder what a clusterhead's concentration and memory capabilities are after having clusters but NO meds....
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #23 on: Sep 17th, 2003, 8:43pm » |
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on Sep 17th, 2003, 8:18pm, kim wrote:| I wonder what a clusterhead's concentration and memory capabilities are after having clusters but NO meds.... |
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Damn good question!
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Re: concentration and memory with Verapamil
« Reply #24 on: Sep 17th, 2003, 9:36pm » |
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I'll be curious as to what your Neuro says about this....It has been just this last few weeks (on Verapamil) that I've been forgetting some stupid things at work.....Drives me crazy....Might just be the exhaustion from my long 12 week cycle....just ended a couple of days ago...yippee...keeping my fingers crossed.....but still forgetting stupid things....feels like oldstimers disease.... 
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