Hi I have been on Lamictal and I also experience bad short term memory it can be very embarrassing. This is a side effect and so I would expect once weaned off your memory would return to normal over time. I take it for epilepsy and have never tried to come off it so I cant say this for certain but would make sense to me.
Good luck
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