Anybody else have a hard time remembering.recalling things?

[2boys2danes]

Has it been this way for your whole life?  I am mid-40s and I notice that sometimes I REALLY have to think hard about something that should be really easy for me (garage keypad code, what I was about to do next, where I was going in the car etc)

Its not all the time or anything but I've noticed it happen a few times over the last couple of years. Most scarily one time I was heading to the doctors in a part of town that I was very familiar with (have lived in the same town for 20+ years) and I could not for the life of me remember how to get to a certain street.  Then sometimes I just think "busy mom, juggling lots of things etc"

What you worry if this was you?  What kind of doctor would you even talk to??

[zoidberg]

I am like this and always have been.

I forget how to get places, I space out and drive to the wrong place (like, home instead of the grocery store), sometimes I just completely blank things out (I have entirely forgotten to go to class before. Just forgot.), I forget words, I forget what I'm saying mid-sentence.

It's frustrating. Sometimes it really worries me because my mom was always like this and she has serious neurological problems (and I have some of the same issues already, that she started to get at my current age). But I don't think there is anything they can do, and it might just be a personality thing that is unrelated to the medical issues.

[zoidberg]

Interestingly, thinking about your question made me realize that I don't do the word forgetting/mixing up when I write but only when I speak.

Brains are fascinating.

[goaskalice]

You are not alone! I never had this problem until I got out of college. It's mostly words for me. It's super frustrating!

[goaskalice]

May 9, 2013 18:11:44 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

I have always had a fantastic memory but within the past year I've been noticing that I have been forgetting things more. Of course, this freaks me the hell out. Here's an example.. A couple weeks ago, I could not for the life of me remember Heidi Klum's reality show about making clothes. I remembered her, the regular judges, my favorite outfits, the names of the people that provide the accessories, the name of the fabric shop, some of the past contestants.. but I could NOT tell you the name of the fucking show. I sat there for 10 minutes refusing to move until it came to me (Project Runway, obvs).

Stuff like that scares me. My grandmother had alzheimer's and it's one of my fears.

Me too. It was my grandma's sister who had the Alzheimer's, but my grandma had some serious dementia. I sometimes think I'm just perpetuating the problem by all my worrying. 

[lolly]

I was never like this until I had babies - now I am always forgetting the words for things and mixing up my sentences. I blame sleep deprivation.

[auntie]

May 9, 2013 18:01:34 GMT -5 2boys2danes said:

Has it been this way for your whole life?  I am mid-40s and I notice that sometimes I REALLY have to think hard about something that should be really easy for me (garage keypad code, what I was about to do next, where I was going in the car etc)

Its not all the time or anything but I've noticed it happen a few times over the last couple of years. Most scarily one time I was heading to the doctors in a part of town that I was very familiar with (have lived in the same town for 20+ years) and I could not for the life of me remember how to get to a certain street.  Then sometimes I just think "busy mom, juggling lots of things etc"

What you worry if this was you?  What kind of doctor would you even talk to??

Perimenopause can screw with recall. 

Sometimes I can't pull words out of my head- nouns especially- I can identify the first letter, sometimes even the number of syllables, but not the damned word.

[pantsparty]

Who are you?

[agnes]

Glad to know I'm not alone. Recently, I couldn't remember the word closet. "You know, the place you hang your clothes in?" This is when thing-a-am-jig and whatchamacallit come in handy.

[mrsukyankee]

Totally has gotten worse the further into my 40s I've gotten.

[CurlyQ284]

May 9, 2013 21:33:32 GMT -5 lilmissladybug said:

I struggle with this all the time. I've lived in the same city for 8yrs and STILL get lost. I was on my way to a Dr appt and got lost. I was 10 minutes late so I had to reschedule.

I have severe ADD though, which I just found out recently.

Were you just diagnosed by your PCP? DH thinks he has ADD but he hasn't seen the doctor yet. He thinks the doc will just think he's trying to get Adderall. When we go somewhere together I have to tell him how to get there (we've lived in this town 4 years), when he's reading for school he needs to reread stuff because by the end of the paragraph he can't remember what it said because his mind wanders, stuff like that.

[jenna]

May 9, 2013 18:32:38 GMT -5 lolly said:

I was never like this until I had babies - now I am always forgetting the words for things and mixing up my sentences. I blame sleep deprivation.

My forgetfulness started in 2010.  E was born in 2010.

[jenna]

May 9, 2013 21:37:54 GMT -5 squirrelymom said:

All.the.time. Inevitably, I think of the things I need to do when I can't write it down--riding in the car, etc. When I do successfully make a list, I lose it. Usually immediately.

I tend to leave my list on the counter at home, and my cell phone or Ipod sitting on the charger - as I'm walking out the door.

[iamgrace]

Babies are brain cell suckers

[fryjack2]

I can't remember words mid sentence all the time. Only started happening post babies. It is beyond annoying. Especially when I 'm talking to H and I get annoyed that he has no idea what I'm talking about when I say, "you know, that thing! That thing you use to eat food with? Come on, you know what I'm talking about!!" He knows now to just throw random words at me until he gets it right.

Its really fun when I'm talking to new patients. Doesn't make me look stupid at all. Nope.

[snickers]

Oh no, I will have even less memory after the baby? Shit! This is not good news!