How long does it take for memory loss to improve or is there no hope? Many symptoms have improved since August when I started treatment but alas not failing memory.
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Memory loss
Loss of short term memory was one of my early symptoms - after five years since diagnosis of b12d it has improved significantly! I think it all depends on how long you deficiency has existed. My memory loss was coupled with nominal aphasia which make conversation very difficult.
It’s a long path to recovery and one knows one is recovering and responding to treatment when improvements occur which is the case with your symptoms.
Good luck.
It's difficult to tell.
My short-term memory got so bad that I forgot where I was going on a day out to London. I was on my own, had no phone, and no idea where I was supposed to be going. I got on a random tube train and waited for inspiration to strike. As it did after just 5 minutes or so.
But I could still recall trivia - like the name of the second woman in space.
Now, five years later, my memory is so much better. I still have problems remembering names, but no more so that friends of a similar age. It was a fairly slow process though.
I think it is early days.
I went to get a plate early on and simply couldnt remember where they were kept.
It came to me pretty quickly. Not a nice moment though
I seem okay now. I do tend to start something and move on before task completed then remember and go back.
I'm 14 months into b12 Injection treatment.
I find the plates now😃
My brain mri showed some atrophy .
I was told okay for age!
Hopefully it will improve for you in time.
My memory was so bad that my husband once told me that a friend of his, who was a fellow collector of ginger beer bottles would be visiting that night. He went off to work, I got on with my day the best I could and around 6 there was a knock on the front door, which I duly opened, there stood a man and I stood there waiting for him to speak, he said is Steve in? I said no sorry he is not home from work yet, He said oh ok , shall I wait in my car then, I said well can I help you instead? He said no Steve is expecting me, I said oh is he? I'm sorry, would you like to come in then and wait for him, so he did and I made him a cuppa. When Steve returned I said, there is someone in the sitting room waiting for you, he said yes that's Ray I told you he was coming! I had to bluff and say well I've made him a cuppa, he hasn't been waiting long.
I was terrible ... so forgetful.....I even left my newly acquired dog sitting outside the garage and someone brought him home and knocked on the door with him and I said ..what are you doing with my dog? They said well you left him tied up outside the garage and the cashier said you lived here.
I am much better now but it was very worrying and took a good few months to get better and I am so relieved because there is only so much bluffing you can get away with before everyone else notices , it was a real problem at work too.
Thank you very much for your responses, they are
encouraging. I am still on three I.M. per week authorised by the GP but administered by my wife. Looking back, I think I'm lucky with the GP but it took some strong persuading by my wife. As for me I was incapable of working anything out.