I keep doing really silly stuff like putting the milk in the cupboard. The other day I put dinner in the oven and hadn't turned it on 😅 It is annoying but I find the funny side of it and so does my husband.
Just wondering if anyone else has this problem 🤔
Hugs 🤗
Alice xx
Oh yes. Sounds very familiar 🤗
Me, too. Do and say all sorts of weird and wonderful things when my arthritis is particularly out of control, much to everyone else’s amusement. Although, it’s less amusing when rather than not turning the oven on, you forget to turn the oven (or even the hob) off, which I’ve done twice since Christmas. Add in the fact that I sleepwalk, and you could probably sell tickets to what goes on here 🙈😂
Yes I know exactly what you mean. We could sell tickets in our house too love Elizabeth x
Lots of, the worst was my first year but I think fatigue and brain fog can be similar x
I agree with Deeb. Fatigued and I’m bonkers! When I’m stressed or totally fatigued I’ll not know where I’ve put anything or what I’ve done. (Teapot in fridge, a purse in freezer! Poured Comfort fabric conditioner into coffee. Well it was the same colour as milk!! 🤪😳)
I poured persil into the back of my coffee maker
Well why not?! 😝 I almost had a Comfort cup of coffee. 😳
😂
I can't imagine the coffee NK! My chuckle for today! ❤️❤️
I'll bet doing that made you feel soft and smooth😂
I’d say it got rid of my wrinkles but I don’t have any! 🤣
Oh YES YES YES! Like you can laugh it off but it has caused some problems. Missing medication which results in a flare then need to wait weeks to kick in . I have also on numerous times taken the wrong meds or taken 2 days worth on one day. I use a dosage box and an alarm on my phone but still manage to mess it up.
Yes, that would be a worry. I have resorted to three different pill boxes now...morning, evening, and early am (Thyroxine). My husband helps me by giving me seven of this and seven of that...which helps tremendously. I was finding it so stressful trying to get them all in the right boxes. It takes five minutes now and it's all done for the week. xx
My pharmacy had to stop doing blister packs for a time and it was awful, if it's not the tape on the boxes befuddling your mind and fingers, it's the flaming silver stripe that I find the worst.
Oh yes, I was only thinking tonight, that my husband told me something and within 2 mins I couldn't for the life of me remember what he said 😏 he had to give me a clue then I remembered 😄, I'm constantly forgetting at work that a caller has given me their details and I ask again! Sigh, I'm used to it now, but I do find it frustrating at times, good though that you can laugh it off.
Yes I get it and really tired too. Sometimes I'm so spaced out I can barely function! Ok today - phew! 😊
Yeah sometimes I find initially when I get up I'm fine but within an hour I can Bearley keep my eyes open 😒
Yes all the time! I put it down to my age but may now use medication as my excuse
Yes all the time, just another wonderful symptom of this awesome disease. Some days I just can't function, don't want to drive as I'm too unco and fogged. Sleep is so very necessary, I think that's what brings it on worse, lack of or disturbed sleep
Amitriptyline 20mg at 7pm… you will sleep like a log … really helps as you get ‘deep sleep’ which your body needs.
I should thank you for posting. All the oh so familiar foggy moments!. Given me a good giggle at 6 a.m. you’re not alone.
😅 mis-place a lot of things...always know where my purse is mind you 😉😄
All the time! 😃
All the time 😳🙈 coupled with menopause and I’m pretty much not here. For work I’ve a diary to write down everything to do and done as I often can’t remember if I thought it or did it, if if I thought it do I remember it! Sometimes I wish I would forget to eat, or think I have eaten. That would be handy with snacking 😂
with eating - I often don't automatically remember that I had a big meal 2 or 3 hours before and then have another huge meal & all sorts, things like that which, as you say, would be nice if the other way round and lose bit of weight!
So much right now - I'll go to do something then 5 seconds later I'll be like 'what was I going to do? Why did I come in here? Why is there an empty mug in the freezer?'
Us too. Me too. Same absurd mis-placememts. Suehelps by telling me to stick to the job in hand. Thinking on all this, I must get ALEXA on the case as well. Like " Alexa - remind me to (focus) in two minutes".
I meant to reply yesterday but... um, where was I?
The dog thinks it's great when she gets double dinner though so there are upsides I suppose
I find it so comforting that I'm not alone in doing, and saying, daft things! It would be quite scary if I was the only one like it.😀
Oh yes! I’ve always had a brilliant memory but the past 2 years it’s dreadful! I fill my slow cooker and ho back an hour later and I haven’t turned it on. Everything has to go on my calendar else I forget. Mind you hubby is worse than me and he’s not got RA or anything 🤦♀️
the worst for me is when I have forgotten what it is that I have forgotten! Keep smiling...this forum is like having the mums from the school gate coming in for coffee on the way home! True pals indeed! xx
Yep!!
Even with a dosette box, those odd tablets I occasionally take, I do have second moments when I second guess myself 🤣🤣🤣
All the time. Especially in the morning. Humour is the best way to deal with it! 😆
Yes, both me and my wife, we treat it as being a laugh. We re both on many pills a day, some of these state that it may be side effects. Several we both take.
I got awful problems when I was on methotrexate. My d-i-l thought (she said afterwards) that I had pre-senile dementia. When I came off the methotrexate it got miles better - now it's just what you would expect for my age (and much less than others of my age). Mainly problems with finding the right word and forgetting whether I have done something unless I concentrate and talk to myself - e.g. "You are locking the door now" so that I don't have to go back to check!
Oh, I do that do too! But then I ask myself, but did I actually do it! 🤪
Yes definitely, sometimes I don't know how I get through the day.
Hi Alice I get tongue tied especially when I am on the phone to some one I don’t know , like you I put things in the fridge that should be in the oven, or in the cupboard. Like you my husband and I laugh about it. Thank god I have a gorgeous husband who always gives me a cuddle and says don’t worry it doesn’t matter. I had a dementia test when I went for my diabetic check up, it’s part of yearly check now, I passed getting all the questions right love Elizabeth x
Absolutely Alice, I recently accidentally double-booked a delivery of fish an chips. I received one delivery at 7 pm, which was great but the next day at midday a courier turned up with another delivery.
Ha ha Alice yup think most of us do. As you say it's mostly funny.What is weird is I find things in unusual places and have no recollection of doing it. Hmmm
Apparently it's a symptom of long covid.
Hi AliceJ47, you are not alone I have a water machine to make tea /coffee I forget how many times a day I put it on to make tea and return later to a cold black brew, as I have started something else and forgot I was making tea. Think its really our concentration disrupted by age and medicines. Keep smiling that's the only way to beat it.
Yeah me too I often forget to turn the kettle on well 😆
Hello Alice! I'm not quite there yet at 66, but I have my moments! Leaving to out sometimes takes three times. I will have my keys and whatever is necessary to go where I'm going. Then I realize I want to take a bottle of water with me. So, I'll set my grocery list down to get a bottle of water. Once having the bottle I'll leave the house. Outside I realize I've left the grocery list. Back inside I find I've left my wallet! So, I'm happy that I've got it! I leave again but without the grocery list! Another of my favorites is my spectacles. If I take them off and leave them where they are not typically stored, they are lost! The search begins. I have three pair now, so that helps. Hang in there!
Since Covid the brain has gone, I can set off talking and completely dry up as I have forgot what I'm talking about, and so it goes on and on 😳😳😳
I definitely seem to have slowed up during this last year when terrible with the RA and nothing was working - presuming you'd call it fatigue and brain fog - slow in terms of having to stop and think more, taking longer over things, only coping really with one thing at a time, sitting and sometimes hours passing without realising, going blank in middle of things - and getting in a real state when any interruptions to me concentrating on doing one thing! Yes - a lot of humour mixed in!
Collar bone pain - does anyone else get this?
MTX, fatigue and brain fog
