I know what I mean !!!!

[lynnecw]

Last night I asked my son if he wanted corrugated chips. When he asked me what I meant I had to go to the freezer and look on the packet of crinkle cut chips to check what I meant as although I could picture them I hadn't a clue what they were called.

[jacksie]

You were right they are corrugated chips,same shape.I don't like those they tend to fall apart ,and are tasteless,i spent i don't how long explaining to my sister a certain pub,i couldn't for the life of me remember it,i wouldn't mind but my niece runs it,i know it well,my sister thinks i have altzeimers,i don't bother explaining,it's embarrasing.Anyway ,must sign out for some reason i feel all jittery,i keep having to amend my words.loads of care jacksiex.

[vikki]

lol like that one and a good description too, fibro fog hitting you......x

[Sammicat15]

sorry Lynne but that gave me a good laugh! well done on improvising

[nanatofour]

Im always saying the wrong thing, I know what I mean its just hard for everyone else to work it out. Dont worry about it just laugh ha ha. All of us on this site understand.

[irisjoy]

when i am in flare mode all food tastes like cardboard so corrugated chips is very apt

[Hidden]

Hehehe i'm so with you on that. i often use the wrong words often telling Phoebe ( my daughter ) to go tumble dry her hair, lots of things like that, luckily her and my man, Paul laugh at it know what i mean i must admit with some of the things i come out with are out of the box hehe

xxxxx

[bbstport]

nice one this made me laugh so much x

[Glenys]

For a serious explanation of what all this is

answers.yahoo.com/question/...

and for the funnier version (much preferred)

fertilityzone.co.uk/index.p...

I am also "afflicted", and have found out that a deficiency in vitamin B12 might make it worse - strangly enough I have read that Vit B12 is one of the things that specialists in Fibro suggest can help a few years ago so have taken it every day for around 3 years (in a standard Vit B supplement from Holland and Barret) I came off it though when the docs panicked at my high blood readings in it, and said that it couldn't be right to be taking that much B12, and asked at first if I was on injections for pernicious anaemia. Of course I explained what I had read, and because the fibro word was used....well, we've all experienced the odd look the GP gives you (you might as well have uttered McBeth to an actor) Just a few weeks into my coming off it I had my first really bad week of noun forgetting - I got really upset at the sudden and continued difficulty in just saying words such as "box" and "living room" and "kitchen work surface". I then looked all the info up on forgetting the names of things and found B12 helped (and the above links) - coincidence? Who knows. Back on it again and I feel a lot better again, so don't know if I had a bug or if it really was the B12, but don't want to take the chance again to find out :-0.

The second link I have put above will appeal to all parents with Fibrofog.

Before this episode of name forgetting, I must admit I poo-poo'd fibrofog, saying that everyone forgets things from time to time, but now not so sure. I still do think that it is a little unfair of us to "claim" it by giving it a name, as there are hundreds more conditions that have this fog as a symptom (maybe treatable if the above about B12 is true), and don't give it a special name, but untill now I never really experienced such a brain-strain in all my 30 yeras of having the symptoms of Fibro. Quite frightening.

Glenys

[Ozzygirl64]

This did make me smile, and it hurts to smile today lol xxxxx