I'm going to put all the blame on prednisolone and not on senile behaviour. Have you ever purchased something at the end of a season sale and then forgotten about it completely, not even remembering when or how you purchased it?
I'm now getting used to opening cupboards and finding unexpected items. A couple of months ago I took out a summer jacket and found another unknown jacket beside it. My husband bought me a lovely black handbag as I hadn't got one: but back at home, what a surprise! There were two black handbags waiting to be used. On Christmas day I took out my smart padded winter coat. But what was underneath? A brand new beige padded jacket with lots of sale tickets on it. The final surprise was on taking out my favourite shoes last week, only to find not one, but two brand new identical pairs wrapped in tissue paper.
Now I know it wasn't Father Christmas , so it must have been pred. These 'discovery'' events have been really amusing and I know I will find a use for all these objects eventually. But I really would like my brain back again.
Wishing you a clear-minded new year with no confusion.
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I thought I’d had all my deliveries for Christmas — but they’re still coming, two new pairs of shoes and counting... but is it the pred? I don’t know, I think Father Christmas brought me the wrong stuff ....
Happens to me all the time , not from Steroids but I have had it increase with the brain fog symptoms to do with GCA but already had brain fog from my other illnesses for years .
I have to keep a file with receipts ( and have had to since before I was 40 , so not an age thing for any of us 😋) I have to look in it now when I think ," I must get a new one of these" , or , "Ooh , that would be useful I'll buy one " , because I may well have already done the same before and forgotten about it.
Grandma ( as my youngest daughter is affectionately known ) proved my skill of forgotten purchases yet again at Christmas , as she pulled a Skipping rope with Counter from her stocking and said , " Ooh , this will look lovely in my collection !" Turns out she now has three which I have managed to buy and put in her stocking three years running!!!
I also forgot I had ordered myself a new bow , and bought one before Christmas , the second arrived on Saturday. So I'm now having to make sure I print off my Amazon receipts and add them in my check box as well.
Not 50 yet , so you have an excuse other than age , your just like me .
No, I must confess that I haven't purchased things that I've forgotten (or at least that I've discovered!), but...
Today I couldn't figure out why my car door wouldn't lock - I thought perhaps the battery was flat in my remote car key. Then eventually I figured out what was wrong... I had got out of the car and left the engine running. And I haven't been on pred for about 8 months now - so we can't blame everything on pred! 🤣
I love this and couldnt stop the giggles Do you think the pred has turned you into a phantom shop lifter!! Maybe thats how you got it all🤪. At least they are all things you wanted or will use. You might need to take a "carer" shopping with you in future.xx
Who else would we feel safe to tell those stories too...it is just wonderful to be able to share and give and recieve the support we all need, for us to keep on smiling....😉
Yes it’s food shopping I often double up on - thinking I must remember to order so and so when I had trouble remembering it one of the previous weeks. I now have 3 containers of turmeric I noticed when I put the final one away!!
Well, at least you haven't come to the stage of putting saucepans in the fridge or milk in the oven - though to be honest, in the case of me and OH, it was momentary. I hope not an indication of the future!!
I must admit i sometimes worry that i have bought too big a Turkey for the oven!! As i cook for 7 of us and everyone likes cold Turkey sandwiches etc afterwards we do get the biggest turkey i can find. Usually about 10kilo!!
This is the reason I don't like talking to a rheumy. Not only is my speech slower but the demand to find immediate vocabulary is well nigh impossible. "So you were a teacher" he says. "What did you teach?" Well, do you think I could summon up "teaching dyslexics"? No. So I had to use the ploy I use with my OH. So my conversation went into a meandering "You know when students have difficulty recognising writing....?" By this time my OH would have known what I was talking about. But this specialist wasn't used to this method. It all got hugely embarrassing but fortunately we both saw the funny side,
This is what I experience but haven't the word just now to tell you about it.
Just now you know where when your clothes are dirty you get them clean but I couldn't get the job done because I forgot to buy well I forgot to buy that stuff in the plastic bottle that you put in that takes out stains. Anyway a best friend called from long distance we had a great talk and I forgot all about what I had to do. But I never forget my pred. I live near the coast but the fog is always in my head. I agree with many here that I am thankful for pred even if it does screw up my head. Have fun today it helps.
Oh dont please!! I never was good at remembering where i put the list but always knew what was on it . Nowadays i struggle to remember the word let alone put it on a list and as for knowing where the list went , well theres no hope!! Strange thing is i dont forget words when i am in court?!!!
Wow...you all have an uncanny way of making me feel normal. Love it~! I've just tucked my pride in my back pocket ~! That post and the replies brought smile after smile to my face.
Along with evrything you have mentioned...I make calls to reschedule appointments I have already rescheduled and have no recollection of. In the early onset of GCA I asked the Doctors if my memory would come back...I was keenly aware it had left. I wondered if there was permanent damage due to lack of oxygen or blood supply in the arteries in my 'skull'~!
I've been tapering...am down to 24mg prednisolone and Actemera.....but that thing called a memory......is just a faint memory.....and a darn good cop-out. I just laugh anymore...I am all done being embarassed.
Hanging with you folks makes me see how good life can be~!!!
This is all so reassuring. I was beginning to worry that I was losing it - actually I ‘lose’ quite a lot of things. I once drove home at night with only side lights. Thought there was something wrong with the car only to discover when I arrived home that I just hadn’t turned the switch twice. This really upset me and of course was dangerous. It never occurred to me that it could be Pred. I’m very careful when I drive in the dark now.
On a lighter note how many times have you trundled up and down supermarket aisles looking for something, then eventually asked someone and find you are stood in front of it!
Hundreds... Even had my hand on the shelf. I once forgot to buy loo roll 7 times. I kept going back twice a day. That was pre pred I think so blaming pmr.
I was looking for gluehbags (to make mulled wine) the other week. I KNEW they were by all the other t-bags - could I see them. They were in a separate stand next to them, 2 feet from me!
There are always loads of assistants in our local supermarkets so I just ask - then they take you to the necessary isle. It helps being old and decrepit!😂😂
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