Forgetful

[ladygrace]

(Testing since 5/2007, dx'd 12/2007)

Can't wait until my brain fog leaves me!!!  I'm having a REALLY hard time.

For example, I'll look at a paper and decide that I need to create a spreadsheet to organize the information.  With the paper sitting next to me, within 5 seconds or less, I forget:  a) why I'm about to use the computer, or b) what program I'm supposed to open or c) what am I supposed to be doing once the program is open.  Times like that, I feel like a complete idiot.

More and more, I can't remember what I'm doing from one minute to the next.  My mom keeps talking about stress but these things don't happen to me when I'm stressed.  In fact, when I'm stressed, it's easier to focus myself and search my thoughts.  It's hard to get people close to you to understand that there's something going on in your head- and it's NOT stress.

Just this past week, a document on my desk listed a group of people involved with a project.  I couldn't remember who one of the people were.  I went so far as to say I didn't think we had someone in our group by that name.  I sat and strained my brain for a minute.  It didn't just come to me.  I had to think HARD and long.  After about  a good minute of pressing and talking it out loud, I remembered who the person was.  Absolutely frightening.  I talked to the person quite a bit the day before.

These past few weeks, I had more episodes of wondering what I'm doing or waking up and getting oriented to where I am.  The commute to work is about 1.25 hrs and usually starts around 6am.  My commute gets me home around 7pm.  My day is long so I may nap on the bus ride to work.  

When I wake suddenly from the nap, I open my eyes and I can't figure out where I am.  I strain my neck and my brain for clues where I am until I finally get it.  Last week, I got scared.  During one of those naps, I was so disoriented, I didn't know if I was sleeping on the way to work or coming home from work.  I had to open my eyes, literally gauge the daylight before figuring out I was going to work.  I knew who I was.  I knew I was on the bus but I lost all sense of time.  Unbelievable!

Does anyone else have similar disorientations?  

[dreamyeyes]

     I definantly know how you feel and how frustrating it is to forget things you have known forever. What really bothers me the most is trying to have a conversations and words that you have used all your life, common everyday words, and just when you are about to speak the word....you cant remember what the word is!!! Just the other day, my fiance and I were driving to the next town over to do some christmas shopping, its a little over an hours drive, and on the way he was asking me if i had anywhere in mind that i wanted to shop at. I was telling him that I wanted to go to a certain store because they had alot of "closeout" items from other stores at very discounted prices, BUT I could not remember the name of the store. I have shopped in this store for about 10 years!!!! For the next 45 minutes during the drive I tried my best to remember and couldn't. When we got to the next town we stopped to have breakfast and I couldnt enjoy my meal thinking about the name of the store and trying to remember. I did remember where the store was, and it wasnt until we got close enough for me to read the sign, that i was able to tell him the name of the store. I felt like a complete idiot!!! But the sweet kind man that he is.....he blew it off, never said anything about my memory lapse!!! What concerned him MUCH more was my spells of dizziness throughout the day.

[Akcowboy]

  Don't feel to bad I get the fog a lot, just today a good friend of my wife and I, that we house sit for we meet at the store doing the last min shopping I didn't even recognize her and my wife had to tell me that she was the one's that gave us the presences, some times my mind just go's blank and I keep my gps in the truck but it's a good thing I live in a small town lol

  Cowboy