tavi and memory

[John1952]

Since my tavi operation which is 100% fine 2 years on I am finding memory problems are happening since then !

I am thinking it is medication but my doctor says I should wait till my next visit to Barts ?

Any body have the same experience like this ?

[Ageingfast]

yes, similar apparent memory losses. But, 4years on, I can now grasp that my memory losses do not relate to heart surgery. Mine relate to a previous stroke and now Parkinson’s.

Make sure you get good sleep.

And soon your memory will return.

Perhaps a review of your meds would help. If your surgery has a meds specialist then that’s the obvious source. If not, then your chemist can carry out the task.

Best wishes

Sooty

[Taviterry]

My short-term memory has never been good. (At work we had voluntary health checks every few years for research purposes, and I could only ever recall four or five out of 20 words that had just been read out to us.) Now it's non-existent over a time-span of a minute or two. My GP gave me a couple of simple cognitive tests (such as reciting the months of the year backwards), and I did very well, and on a recent on-line test I did better than average. I did agree to having my cognitive reasoning check just before and just after my TAVI, but that never happened (unless I've forgotten them.😄). I recognise that cognitive reasoning and memory are not the same. Beyond two minutes, my memory is not bad, though it can be difficult to digest what medics tell me during an appointment. Today I was glad to receive a two-page summary of a recent appointment that I had twelve days ago with a private haematologist; it was as I remembered it.

[Carriefarm in reply to Taviterry]

My memory has never been great but it got a lot worse when I was on Rosuvastatin and improved when I stopped using it. Memory loss can be a side effect of statins

[MoretonCross]

Are you on a medium to high dose statin? 🤔 Memory loss is a known possible side effect of statins. Good luck with it anyway. 👍

[Wurliwonder]

I'm 2 years older than you and have had memory issues most of my life. I have a particular problem with names. Can't remember people's names, street and town names etc.

Nothing has changed since my TAVI. I can't remember what I cooked for lunch the day before yesterday but that simply doesn't matter so I don't worry about it. The "worse" thing that happens is that I sometimes forget to turn a light off or remember where I've put something, but I'm sure I'm not alone in doing that.

When I was awaiting my TAVI (I was in hospital for 7 weeks) I kept explaining to surgeons and other medical staff that, beyond a very basic understaning, I wouldn't remember what I was told if it had the name of a procedure or medication. Even so, I left hospital with no paperwork and only knowing that I couldn't drive for a month and that one of my bags of possessions was too heavy for me and the other wasn't. Almost all I now know, I've learned from this website.

My earliest memory is from when I was about 5 and my mother took a B&W photograph of me with two of my grandparents. My mother was dressed in a blue 2 piece suit and used a Box Brownie. I can see her in front of me even now.

Some years ago I suffered from Clinical Depression and one of the tests before I could return to work was remembering a short story. It was about a woman catching a bus to a local town to buy groceries. I explained that I wouldn't remember names but that counted for nothing. In repeating the story I couldn't rembember the woman's name, the street she lived in, the town she lived in, the town she went to on the bus, or the name of the supermarket. I could remember some of the groceries as they were things I would buy myself. That earned me another 3 weeks off work.

My advice would be not to overthink it. Stress can cause memory issues.