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    Anyone had problems with short-term memory on Campral

    Hi Everyone again,

    I'm wondering if anyone who has taken Campral had any problems with their short term memory or recall? I am taking it, and it appears to be going well. However, I'm very concerned about the amount of things I forget. Like today I gave someone money in the morning then had totally forgot that I gave them it and tried to give them it again. I'm worried that my brain has been destroyed or something by drinking. However, I'm only 30 and I have only been drinking 13 years in binges....not sure if thats enough to mess up your short term memory....

    Only other thing is xanax which i take some times to sleep. I took some last night, but it was a very small dose at 250 mcg so I don't think that that would be enough to cause the level deficit I'm noticing. I torn because Campral is working, but I can't go around not remembering stuff!

    Anyone have any experience?
    The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
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    Anyone had problems with short-term memory on Campral

    _EndOfTheLine_;1694036 wrote: I'm wondering if anyone who has taken Campral had any problems with their short term memory or recall?
    Nope. And I've been on it off and on for over a year.

    _EndOfTheLine wrote:     Only other thing is xanax which i take some times to sleep. I took some last night, but it was a very small dose at 250 mcg so I don't think that that would be enough to cause the level deficit I'm noticing. I torn because Campral is working, but I can't go around not remembering stuff!

    Anyone have any experience?
    If your memory issues are caused by a drug, it's likely the Xanax:

    Effects of long-term benzodiazepine use - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Also, how long have you been AF? I'm at two months now and for at least the first 30 days or so, I was still hazy and forgetful. Still am to some degree, but then again, I've always been a bit flaky and absent minded my entire life.
    In the middle of my life's journey, I found myself in a dark wood, as I had lost the straight path. It is a difficult thing to speak about, how wild, harsh and impenetrable that wood is. Just thinking about it recreates the fear. It is scarcely less bitter than death, but in order to tell of the good that I found there, I must tell of the other things I saw there. --Dante, paraphrased

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      #3
      Anyone had problems with short-term memory on Campral

      Don't know about campral but benzos can wreck havoc on your memory. I testify to that.

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        Anyone had problems with short-term memory on Campral

        According to this:
        Recovery of short-term memory and psychomotor speed but not postural stability with long-term... - Abstract - Europe PubMed Central

        It will take a while for my memory to become normal. Its quite scary actually. Yea i def think the xanax has contributed but I'm going to reduce my dose of Campral too and hope for the best. Fucking joke, this alcohol shit. If I have children, especially male ones, I'm going to warn them not to drink.
        The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

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          Anyone had problems with short-term memory on Campral

          I wouldn't reduce your dose of campral without talking to your doctor first. I highly doubt it's the problem, and it's doing your brain a valuable service in restoring proper neurotransmitter balance.

          Instead of reducing your dose of campral, why don't you cut the drug that is ACTUALLY KNOWN to induce cognition and memory problems???
          In the middle of my life's journey, I found myself in a dark wood, as I had lost the straight path. It is a difficult thing to speak about, how wild, harsh and impenetrable that wood is. Just thinking about it recreates the fear. It is scarcely less bitter than death, but in order to tell of the good that I found there, I must tell of the other things I saw there. --Dante, paraphrased

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            Anyone had problems with short-term memory on Campral

            My doctor won't know anything about the dosing etc of Campral or its effects on memory or otherwise. I can almost guarantee I know more than her, she just writes the script out for me I understand your skepticism, I'm just incredibly wary of drugs (especially centrally acting ones) and would prefer to be on the lowest effective dose.
            I'm going to try it, and if I find myself making plans to go drinking I'll reverse the decision. I'm also on antabuse, so that buys me some time if things don't go to plan.
            Remind me what you're on Alky....was it baclofen and campral? How's it going?
            The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

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              Anyone had problems with short-term memory on Campral

              _EndOfTheLine_;1694076 wrote: I'm just incredibly wary of drugs (especially centrally acting ones)
              And this justifies the Xanax how, exactly? I'm sorry, yes I am skeptical. A guy was dismissed from my intensive outpatient therapy after an auto accident and DUI. He was about 33 days AF and said all the right things about addiction, but he was high on benzos when all this happened. In the end, he was just a junkie that didn't want to give up his buzz. I'm not saying you're him, but your circumstances sound suspiciously similar.

              As for me, I'll let my two months speak for itself.
              In the middle of my life's journey, I found myself in a dark wood, as I had lost the straight path. It is a difficult thing to speak about, how wild, harsh and impenetrable that wood is. Just thinking about it recreates the fear. It is scarcely less bitter than death, but in order to tell of the good that I found there, I must tell of the other things I saw there. --Dante, paraphrased

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                Anyone had problems with short-term memory on Campral

                I had a xanax to sleep last night. 250 mcg-hardly the end of the world. And the dangers of xanax are well known, as are the dangers of alcohol. I don't worry about dangers I know about, I worry about the ones that I don't know about. And acamprosate is a relatively recent drug, and there isn't the long term safety data available that there is with other drugs because so few are treated with it. Nobody knows if its dangerous, and I take two grams of it a day, and thats why I'm wary.
                The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

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                  #9
                  Anyone had problems with short-term memory on Campral

                  Yes but it's the actual group of drugs xanax is in that gives the clue. Acamprosate has been around for at least 10 years (I was first prescribed it in 2003) and it's not part of an addictive, sedating group of compounds. The one that is part of that group would be more than likely causing you problems.
                  I used the Sinclair Method to beat my alcoholic drinking.

                  Drank within safe limits for almost 2 years

                  AF date 22/07/13

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