I have a friend who is taking Effexor and some days I can't help but think she has lost her mind (actually memory). We've been working together for about 1-1/2 years and It just seems like this started about the time she started taking this.

So my question is - Can or does Effexor affect/effect (hehe) the memory?

I'm not a scientist of expert, but having said that I have taken Effexor XR on two seperate "stints" in my life. Everyone has different (side)effects as I am reading up on in the adderall forum right now. I didn't find that memory was that bad, it was how fast I could recall stuff. It was as though I would lose my thoughts and I would be thinking "****e, I know this" and then I'd stress about it and finally when I'd stop thinking so hard (practically give-up) it would come into my mind clear as day. I have been keeping a journal of my feelings, emotions, symptoms, interactions - notes on my daily life and it seems to help me relate what is what from what is what.

And here is some more of my scattered thoughts:
Memory is an interesting one for me at the present moment, as all my life I have been one of those people who remembers ALL and I mean ALL the little, what most people would think of remembering things in life, incidents, people's names/faces I'd seen once in some random place and could pick them out years later in a totally different context. AND NOW... in the past 2 years since I have been very "unstable" and finally got to the point where I learned I had ADD it is really bad. It's almost as though the lack of structure in my life has effected my memory somehow - or else I am just getting older and don't care or notice the little things anymore???

Thanks for the reply. I'll try to be a little more patient with her but sometimes I find myself wanting to pinch her head off. I felt for a while that it might be "wanting attention" then I went thru this "she's gotta be stupid" stage. I hope it's just a lack of structure for her and she can work thru this.

I really appreciate it.:D