Posted by Amigan on July 31, 2008, at 12:00:17
In reply to deja vu, posted by always_doing_laundry on July 31, 2008, at 11:04:32
> When I reflect, I have chalked this up to middle age ... but I wonder now if it isn't concurrent with/coincidental with when I started on these meds. Could Lamictal affect cognitive processing, in that my thoughts aren't in synch with my experience (slower) and so it seems like it has happened before?
This is what a neurologist would say. I have read a couple of "rational" theories which are trying to explain this phenomenon and i think that none of them explains the deja-vu experience to a satisfactory level. It's still a mystery, imho.
In advanced deja-vu, a person knows what is going to happen in the next few seconds. This is for real. It is called precognition and i don't think that there is (or will be) a trully scientific theory which gives an explanation to this..
> Honestly, I sometimes think I'm crazy, b/c it seems like one long string of interactions in my day will seem like back-to-back "deja vu."
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> I'm also wondering if my on-the-tip-of-my-tongue word-finding difficulties are part and parcel of taking either/both of these meds. Since I have been on both meds for about 7 years, it's difficult to remember when the frequency of problems increased (and if I could, I probably wouldn't be able to find the words for it ... lost on the tip of my tongue :)Well, yes. From what i know, this meds can cause cognitive impairment.
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