do you forget?

[Dakota's Mommy]

Definately! I feel like my brain is being fried more and more lately! I don't know what's wrong with me!

[carole]

oh yeah can i ever relate to this one, it seems middle age, its quite normal, i always go into a room to do something and then forget what i was going to do, luckily sometimes it comes back to me, and then theres the one where i put things away in a safe place so they wont get lost, yes u guessed it , i forget where the safe place is, and 'thingy' is always in my vocab.
To top it off i have fibromyalgia, and get fibro-fog, thats what its called, so i get more forgetful than most people, HELP lol

[ChrisH]

Yes...umm what was the question?..hang on while I go look....

Yes! Everything! All the time!......except, funnily enough, for song lyrics, OLD song lyrics!!

[Pam]

What I really hate is when I go upstairs to get something. I see something that I need to do or take care of while I'm up there, and then I do whatever and come back down. When I'm ALL THE WAY at the bottom of the steps I remember why I went up in the first place. (This is a great thread - I feel so much better now!)

[ChrisH]

LOL, Pam. That sounds very familiar!

[moosmom]

Boy does THAT hit close to home!! I would be in the middle of a sentence and BAM...my mind goes blank.

I can attribute it to many things...hormonal imbalance, chemical imbalance of my brain, fried brain cells from smoking whacky weed when I was younger, you name it!

And I thought I was the only one.

[gini]

Well, this is a family site, so I will be careful.

What we all have is CRS DISEASE. ("can't remember s___")

One of my favorite things that I say to myself is:

WHAT WAS I DOING
BEFORE I WAS DOING
WHAT I WAS DOING????

I just love getting older................

[marysmerrycats]

LOL Donna, I never would have guessed that of you! of course, I have NEVER smoked anything when I was younger, not me!

[iceyshiver21]

I forget midway into a sentace.. Im proud of it, thats pretty good considering my brain moved out when I couldnt find no more homes for the dust bunnies

[moosmom]

Mary,

I tried it when I was out of high school. Didn't like it very much as I wasn't in control. Besides, it made me eat the furniture and paranoid. I sure don't miss those days.

[Barbara]

Originally posted by ChrisH
LOL, Pam. That sounds very familiar!

To me too.

The best thing in this thread is that it does not seem to be confined to people our age

[Barbara]

Originally posted by marysmerrycats
LOL Donna, I never would have guessed that of you! of course, I have NEVER smoked anything when I was younger, not me!

And for sure I never inhaled

[smokey the elder]

Sometimes I think we're thinking of so much at once that our mental RAM gets cluttered. We need ctrl+alt+del to reboot our brains!

...and I can always blame the solvents...

[Rachel]

Oh you guys....I guess it is a bit comforting to know I am not the only one with this struggle. I first noticed it with things that I do routinely without thinking, like brushing my teeth. Did I brush my teeth or not? I would have to check to see if the toothbrush was wet. Then I couldn't remember the names of some movie stars or television personalities. Not much of a loss on that one but still bothersome. When it really scares me is when I can't remember the name of a familiar object. Now this has only happened several times but when it does, I absolutely panic. Hannah has a frisbee which I keep in the closet so she doesn't chew it up. We hadn't played with it for months and months and I was going to ask her if she wanted to play frisbee and I couldn't think of the word *frisbee*. All I could think of was *flying disk*, and I knew that wasn't it. One other time it was the flower hybiscus. I could picture it in my mind's eye, but couldn't think of the name. Eventurally the name comes to me but it takes far too long.

One strange way I use to retrieve a name of someone whom I know I know is to mentally go through the alphabet. When I get to the letter of the first or last name, I will have a sense that the person's name starts with that letter and then soon it will come to me. Not something that one can use when running into someone at the grocery store, but I always will try to think of the name when I have a chance, so hopefully I can rebuild some of those lost pathways in my brain.

I never smoked the weed, but probably had a bit more of the alcoholic beverage than I should have in my 20's. You know the song they sing on that one car commercial
*I wish that I knew what I know now,
when I was younger.
I wish that I knew what I know now,
when I was stronger.*

So true, so true.

[marysmerrycats]

Sometimes I think we're thinking of so much at once that our mental RAM gets cluttered. We need ctrl+alt+del to reboot our brains

I agree!!

One strange way I use to retrieve a name of someone whom I know I know is to mentally go through the alphabet.

LOL I do that too, in fact, just had to do that the other day!!