Last year I basically regained reading novels after removing Lyrica and also some other meds with anti-cholinergic effects. Like when they were finally out of my system I read the entire October Daye series (10 books) in a week when previously books were just...so...hard. And I was like "crap, do I need a book budget again? What is this? also YAY."

(I was like "do I maybe have the makings of anticholinergic toxicity?" and the answer is who the fuck knows, but I do have a low tolerance for them before the side effects start kicking in.)

Unfortunately now I'm in "maybe MCAS issues? maybe some other weird-ass allergies?" and basically all the allergy meds have varying degrees of anticholinergic properties, which means no reading paper books. (I have somewhat greater tolerance for ebooks, but it's still actively hard.)

anyway it's kind of motivation to figure out potential allergen issues and/or optimal anticholinergics, because the fewer I take the less my mental fog is. (note: this is a potentially relevant rabbit hole idk)

[I am not a doctor, YMMV. If you want to find a list of which of your meds have anticholinergic properties and they're prescribed by multiple specialists, I recommend talking to your pharmacist tho. Just fyi.]