Memory loss

[Damseltree]

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.

[Alfabeta]

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.

[Showgem in reply to Alfabeta]

I have both these symptoms, they have greatly improved after 11 months of treatment. You have given me hope that I will continue improving!

[fbirder]

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.

[Nackapan]

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.

[chrisbuy63]

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.

[Damseltree]

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.