Can Valium cause amnesia?

Question

Just curiosity.

Answer 1

Absolutely. Valium (diazepam) is a benzodiazepine, a class of drugs famous for its amnestic properties. The amnesia is greater with some of the other members of this class, notably Ativan (lorazepam), Versed (midazolam) and Halcion (triazolam), but Valium causes this effect as well. Roofies (flunitrazepam), another benzodiazepine, are famous for this effect.

Note that (almost) all of these drugs' generic names end in "-pam", like diazepam (Valium), the first of this class to be prescribed.

This is not total amnesia for the entire past - just for the period that one was under its influence. But you can awaken from a Valium experience and remember none of what happened.

Answer 2

Valium Amnesia

Answer 3

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Yes, unfortunately, any of the benzodiazepines, alcoholism, most of the antipsychotics and some of the antidepressants (Effexor, Cymbalta) can cause memory loss, anterograde amnesia, retro-grade amnesia, long-term memory loss, and short term memory processing problems. Sometimes the damage is irreversible but with the benzodiazepines, sometimes you can recover some function after a year or more of not using them, but you will suffer anterograde amnesic syndrome with varying degrees of forgetfulness.. Anterograde amnesia is especially common with Valium. It is the loss of the ability to create new memories, (or store new memories) leading to a partial or complete inability to recall the recent past, while long term memories remain intact. Retrograde amnesia is loss of memories created in the past. Both retrograde and anterograde amnesia are side effects of long term use of benzodiazepines, or drug induced amnesia. Heavy use of benzodiazepines can cause both anterograde and retrograde amnesia, sometimes called global amnesia. So long as you continue to use valium, your learning ability will deteriorate. I use the Beta-blocker propanolol for panic attacks, it is much safer and you only use it as needed, it doesn't have to be take every day. It doesn't have the tolerance or addictive properties of the benzo's. It is tragic that doctors are allowed to prescribe the benzodiazepines to unsuspecting patients after the recommended time period of 2 weeks to 4 months - after which (it has been proven now) they will not work. I believe it is the #1 cause of dramatic increases of early onset dementia and Alzheimer's which my aunt died of.

Answer 4

Yes. As Yaybob says, Valium is a drug in the class called benzodiazepines. It is used intravenously to sedate people for certain medical procedures and yes, it often causes amnesia of the event.

Chronic use of this drug can cause addiction and impaired memory.

Answer 5

It doesn't cause amnesia, but it can affect short term memory.

Answer 6

I forget.