I just wondered how everyone handles feeling spaced out, unable to find the correct words while working & day to day due to medication. I work in the health field and find myself CONSTANTLY dropping items and searching for words. I am currently on 1800 of neurontin, 700 tegretol, 400 lamictal, 800 acyclovir, 50 noratryptaline, and just added cymbalta and verapamil. My mother (who is a nurse said she doesn’t Even know how I stand let alone go to work). Any help would be appreciated.
How long have you been on Cymbalta? My GP put me on it and I feel like it clears my head a little and gives me some energy. Does nothing for the pain, but that’s another discussion.
Just started this week…tapering off of Zoloft. Thought that cymbalta would work on nerve pain. I am hoping that this will improve soon. I live for my days off so I can relax my mind and not have to “worry” so much about being clear minded. Thank u for your input 
WOW you are on a lot of meds
I went and had brain surgery because I couldn't function on any one of them!
I asked neurologist for Ritalin - to give me energy and focus to research my MVD
He said it is common for those on anti seizure meds to request it for this very purpose
Had to take a med to counteract a med!
@KC~ IKR…it seems like people keep pushing me from place to place b/c once the pain becomes tolerable if severe pain ever is I have days where I am in bed, dark room etc. as the neurologist said after taking my history “your complicated”…soooo drugs…that’s the answer???
When I was working at the hospital I was higher doses of Gabapentin than I am now, plus Klonopin; I changed to a different floor/specialty that was supposed to be"less stressful". Well, I broke out in shingles during orientation. Later was so anxious that I would make a med error that I was triple checking everything I gave, I couldn't concentrate, would forget the new floor's routine. Awful. When I quit, I gave two weeks notice, but I was so goofy and unfocused that I totally forgot that I could have taken a medical leave of absence and had short term disability coverage. I would have been able to keep my insurance, just paying the usual premiums instead of the $600 a mo. for COBRA. If I got to that spot again where my TN came back full force, I wouldn't work. Hindsight of course. Now, I can't hardly get a job, I work one day a week at a job that pays about a third of what I used to make.
Wow! You are amazing to be able to take that amount of meds and function let alone work. I take 100mg of Carbamazapine three times a day and find myself feeling the same way. “mental dullness” is a side effect of the Carbamazapine. What do you take the other meds for? I need to up my med level but am very resistant as I do not tolerate the med well. It makes me dizzy and spacey. I wish I could offer you more advice and suppport rather than questions. All the best as you walk this journey.