Memory Loss

[504RP]

My memory has been declining for quite a while now but has gotten worse in the last 6 months. It’s gotten to the point lately that it’s more than being an annoyance by asking someone a question only to ask the same question again 5 minutes later or worse.

Went to see a doctor about it yesterday and they have me scheduled for some test. Anyone else ever have problems remembering things ?

 

[kenny thomas]

My memory has been declining for quite a while now but has gotten worse in the last 6 months. It’s gotten to the point lately that it’s more than being an annoyance by asking someone a question only to ask the same question again 5 minutes later or worse.

Went to see a doctor about it yesterday and they have me scheduled for some test. Anyone else ever have problems remembering things ?

Oh yes, i have to write everything down. Im terrible with names.
Any idea what tests they will do?

 

[jltrent]

I read this three times and already forgot a lot of it. I can't hide my on Easter eggs yet but wait a few days and some will never be found.

 

[Dave]

I carry ID so I can look up my own name. But then I forget which pocket it is in.

 

[Silver]

My memory is so good I can remember stuff that never even happened.

 

[Ky hills]

So sorry to hear that. I’m having some memory issues too. I used to could remember things real well in detail, but now really struggle at times to retain that.
It seems so strange that I can remember details from decades ago, but have a hard time remembering current things.
I’ve been having trouble finding words, I’ll be talking about something and then just stop because I can’t think of the word for something simple everyday thing. It eventually comes to me, but frustrating in the moment.

 

[Ouachita]

Not bragging, but people tell me my ability to remember things is scary good. I just had a new customer fly in this morning and I recognized the plane. Although it had a been repainted in different scheme and colors, I remembered the registration number as one I'd worked on in 1996.

This guy bought the plane in 2005 and couldn't remember the name of the previous owner. I remembered the owners name, and the serial number without looking at the data plate and he sorta freaked out. Then I was able to tell him what work I did to it 1996, installed speedbrakes, tip tanks, a pre-oiler and new engine baffling. Still have a copy of the log entry.

Now, that's business related, and it really has been an advantage for me, but I can't remember to pick up a gallon of milk on the way home. I don't remember birthdays or appointments well, and I am dyslexic, so sequential numbers are tough for me. Unique numbers are easy, and the reason I reference the unique registration numbers on our work orders instead of the sequential work order numbers my wife uses for accounting. We're all wired different and I think memories are defined by how we prioritize them.

 

[SBMF 2015]

I used to be able to keep several buyer’s numbers straight and what vet program they had simultaneously in my head or mother pairs going to grass and sort as long as nobody asked me a question. About ten years ago ( while going through my divorce) that all changed. I asked my doctor about it and she said that I shouldn’t have been able to do that in the first place and that I “was getting older “ I wasn’t impressed. Dr had me do a memory test. Just very basic questions that everyone should know; what year it was, who was president, my birthday. Then they had me draw a clock and told me to make the hands read a specific time. I passed but it’s still frustrating.

@504RP I hope everything goes well with your test.

 

[Rafter S]

. . . I’ve been having trouble finding words, I’ll be talking about something and then just stop because I can’t think of the word for something simple everyday thing. It eventually comes to me, but frustrating in the moment.

I could have written that part, and not just things, but names too. Maybe that part is genetic though. My paternal grandfather had three sons and four grandsons, and when he wanted to say one of our names he might run through three or four before he got the right one.

When my mother was in her mid-late 70's her memory got so bad we had to take her car keys away from her. My sister spent more time with her than I did, and she was the one who insisted it was necessary. I didn't realize how bad it was until I was with her (she wasn't driving) and she couldn't find the courthouse, in the medium sized town she'd lived in for several decades and had been very familiar with before that.

When she'd be at her doctor she'd tell him about some product or supplement she'd seen advertised that was supposed to improve your memory, and did he think she should get some? He'd tell her that if it worked he would have already had her taking it.

 

[Warren Allison]

My memory has been declining for quite a while now but has gotten worse in the last 6 months. It’s gotten to the point lately that it’s more than being an annoyance by asking someone a question only to ask the same question again 5 minutes later or worse.

Went to see a doctor about it yesterday and they have me scheduled for some test. Anyone else ever have problems remembering things ?

It is caused by amyloids in the brain. Eventually if untreated, it will cause Alzheimer's. Caught early, there are a couple of types of infusions therapies that can treat them. I am about to go through this with my wife. We go Thursday for a PET scan that will tell he neurologist which type of proteins and how many there are, then he will start her on one of the 2 kinds of infusions . She is just 63 and has short-term memory loss, the beginning of dementia. Dementia is different than Alzheimer's, but the doc said what she has could very well cause her to develop Alzheimer's if left untreated. He said he can't reverse it, but can stop it from progressing further.

 

[Ky hills]

I could have written that part, and not just things, but names too. Maybe that part is genetic though. My paternal grandfather had three sons and four grandsons, and when he wanted to say one of our names he might run through three or four before he got the right one.

When my mother was in her mid-late 70's her memory got so bad we had to take her car keys away from her. My sister spent more time with her than I did, and she was the one who insisted it was necessary. I didn't realize how bad it was until I was with her (she wasn't driving) and she couldn't find the courthouse, in the medium sized town she'd lived in for several decades and had been very familiar with before that.

When she'd be at her doctor she'd tell him about some product or supplement she'd seen advertised that was supposed to improve your memory, and did he think she should get some? He'd tell her that if it worked he would have already had her taking it.

Yes, I forget names too, it is kind of worrisome for me to not be able to find a word or name.

 

[Ky hills]

I used to be able to keep several buyer’s numbers straight and what vet program they had simultaneously in my head or mother pairs going to grass and sort as long as nobody asked me a question. About ten years ago ( while going through my divorce) that all changed. I asked my doctor about it and she said that I shouldn’t have been able to do that in the first place and that I “was getting older “ I wasn’t impressed. Dr had me do a memory test. Just very basic questions that everyone should know; what year it was, who was president, my birthday. Then they had me draw a clock and told me to make the hands read a specific time. I passed but it’s still frustrating.

@504RP I hope everything goes well with your test.

I went through a divorce 20 years ago, and also experienced some memory issues then too. I think it’s a stress related thing. Seemed like it got better after a while, but either with age or whatever I never did get back to where I was memory wise.
I can remember cows and their calves from 30 years ago. But can’t keep up with current tag numbers hardly at all.
I can identify the cows and match most of their current calves with them but not by their numbers. It takes me a long time to be able to associate a number with a cow.

 

[SBMF 2015]

I went through a divorce 20 years ago, and also experienced some memory issues then too. I think it’s a stress related thing. Seemed like it got better after a while, but either with age or whatever I never did get back to where I was memory wise.
I can remember cows and their calves from 30 years ago. But can’t keep up with current tag numbers hardly at all.
I can identify the cows and match most of their current calves with them but not by their numbers. It takes me a long time to be able to associate a number with a cow.

Reminds me of a story. My friend’s great uncle milked cows and was married for 50+ years. My friend said his great uncle developed Alzheimer's and had to go to a nursing home. His wife would come visit him and he would ask her by name how all of his milk cows were doing. Then he would pause and ask “ Now who are you?” It’s so sad and yet amazing what we remember and what we don’t.

 

[wbvs58]

What was the question again?

Ken

 

[Hpacres440p]

All I can say is that I pray it is something stress related and not a real issue. Dementia is not kind in any form.

 

[504RP]

Oh yes, i have to write everything down. Im terrible with names.
Any idea what tests they will do?

They are going to do a brain scan Monday morning to check for a blood clot and somehow see if I have the beginning of Alzheimer’s.

 

[sstterry]

Robert , 85, married Jenny, a lovely 25 year old . . .Since her new husband is so old, Jenny decides that after their wedding she and Robert should have separate bedrooms, because she is concerned that her new but aged husband may over-exert himself if they spend the entire night together.

After the wedding festivities Jenny prepares herself for bed and the expected knock on the door. Sure enough the knock comes, the door opens and there is Robert, her 85 year old groom, ready for action. They unite as one. All goes well, Robert takes leave of his bride, and she prepares to go to sleep.

After a few minutes, Jenny hears another knock on her bedroom door, and it's Robert, Again he is ready for more 'action'. Somewhat surprised, Jenny consents for more coupling. When the newly weds are done, Robert kisses his bride, bids her a fond good night and leaves.

She is set to go to sleep again, but, aha, you guessed it Robert is back again, rapping on the door and is as fresh as a 25 - year - old, ready for more 'action'. And, once more they enjoy each other. But as Robert gets set to leave again, his young bride says to him, 'I am thoroughly impressed that at your age you can perform so well and so often. I have been with guys less than a third of your age who were only good once. You are truly a great lover, Robert.'

Robert, somewhat embarrassed, turns to Jenny and says: 'You mean I was here already?'

 

[504RP]

Reminds me of a story. My friend’s great uncle milked cows and was married for 50+ years. My friend said his great uncle developed Alzheimer's and had to go to a nursing home. His wife would come visit him and he would ask her by name how all of his milk cows were doing. Then he would pause and ask “ Now who are you?” It’s so sad and yet amazing what we remember and what we don’t.

They gave me a short quiz to I guess some how determine what my problem is. A nurse gave me a copy of the test and would read the questions and I was to select one of the 4 answers. All of them were simple but there was one on the list that was just a phrase that I was supposed to read and then give her my copy of the test to her and tell her what the phrase read. The phrase was “ able, penny and table “ I couldn’t remember it. I had just read it and gave her my copy of the test and I couldn’t remember not even one of the 3 simple words “ able, penny, and table Out of all 20 questions that was the only one that I could not for the life of me remember the phrase. So I ask her to tell me the phrase and she said I had one more task before the could tell me. And it was the last of the 20 questions. It was to draw a picture of a simple drawing of two square boxes. The two boxes was a drawing of the two laying connected together. Best way I can
describe them. Really simple but my drawings weren’t very neat.

When the Nurse got up to leave the room she said “ Oh the phrase was able,penny,table “ It was like a light switch came on. I immediately remembered the phrase. And I have been thinking about that over and over since I had the test yesterday morning. But I am not even sure that I am repeating the phrase in the right order or if the three words are right.

So I don’t know what I have going on. I am not looking or wanting sympathy or anyone to feel sorry for me. I am just trying to see if anyone else has had anything similar like this happen to them. But if there is and they have had this happen to them like me. Probably don’t remember it like me.

My wife had been telling me for a while now “ she says for about the last 6 months “ in a joking manner that I was losing my mind because I had just ask her the same question several times. But it’s not a joke anymore and she has realized that she was right by telling me I am losing my mind. But because I wasn’t aware that I was repeating myself or how long I have been doing it now. I didn’t know how serious forgetting things can be.

 

[504RP]

Reminds me of a story. My friend’s great uncle milked cows and was married for 50+ years. My friend said his great uncle developed Alzheimer's and had to go to a nursing home. His wife would come visit him and he would ask her by name how all of his milk cows were doing. Then he would pause and ask “ Now who are you?” It’s so sad and yet amazing what we remember and what we don’t.

The movie “Golden Pond “ that had Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn starring in it. Reminds me of an episode where he had went to a place at their vacation cabin on a lake and one day went to pick wild berry berries and had went there lots of times over the years. But this time when he went to pick berries like he had done lots of times before. And after he had picked the berries and was ready to walk back
to his cabin. He realized he had forgotten the directions to the cabin. The cabin was within walking distance. And panicked and was just lucky when he finally found his way back to his cabin. I have watched that show a few times over the years and never thought too much about that episode of him getting lost because he had forgotten the way back to his cabin but now since I have started having these what I am calling memories lapses. I have a different feeling about that episode in the movie golden pond.

 

[504RP]

I used to be able to keep several buyer’s numbers straight and what vet program they had simultaneously in my head or mother pairs going to grass and sort as long as nobody asked me a question. About ten years ago ( while going through my divorce) that all changed. I asked my doctor about it and she said that I shouldn’t have been able to do that in the first place and that I “was getting older “ I wasn’t impressed. Dr had me do a memory test. Just very basic questions that everyone should know; what year it was, who was president, my birthday. Then they had me draw a clock and told me to make the hands read a specific time. I passed but it’s still frustrating.

@504RP I hope everything goes well with your test.

That test seems very similar to
Your test. I think all and all
I done good on the test. Except for one little task or question. I posted what happened before I read your reply so you can read about it if you’re interested. I appreciate you telling me about your test.

Did the doctor find anything out from your test that you done ?