Please someone tell me its not dementia ?Im halfway through reading a book, and suddenly The name of one of the main people wont register..... I find this quite scary ok Im 75 but
cant bare the thought of it getting worse & scared stiff of telling my doc as I believe they can run a test for it ....
Memory loss is pretty common with hypothyroidism. I have terrible trouble reading books because I can't remember the characters from one page to the next!
Perhaps you need an increase in your dose. Have you got any labs you could share with us so we can see what's going on?
Hugs, Grey
getting it when you are 33 - that is even more worrying!
Now that has cheered me up, Realy ...Thanks X
I was starting to think i was going mad...i walk out of a room and whatever it was i wanted disappears from my head...I can also be halfway through a conversation and forget what i was saying...Ps im 40!!
Yep done that a lot. The worst was when I couldn't think what my boyfriends name was!
With dementia you might not remember you have forgotten something. Talk to GP maybe get full blood tests done.
Thanks, but I think Il wait a while to get something else to worry about X...
It is scary to have these memory lapses. It is better to tell your Gp and to arrange for an MRI, they can tell if there is a problem by looking at the brain scan. Things can be done to slow down any deterioration so it is best to find out sooner ather than later and there may benothing wrong which will put your mind at rest. Coconut Oil is supposed to have miraculous effects with memory, you can look it up on Google and have a read. It works only while you take it evidently and you can use it for lots of other things like cooking and hair/skin conditioner.
Thank you for that, I don't somehow think it likely that my doc would send me for a scan....its hard to get any blood tests done... but I will try and moniter my memory lapses and if they get worse I shall be insistant.
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Try not to worry as I believe this can make it worse. ( easier said than done! )
I`ve looked for my reading glasses when I`ve been wearing them!
Lots of things can cause a lapse in memory and it can be quite normal. Just being tired, or having something on your mind for instance.
Take care.
Janet.
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Thank you so much Janet, I guess some of the forgetfulness must come with age X
Sam75, Your GP has a duty of care to explore what is wrong. My mother who has just turned 90 and has just started to forget who I am and a few other things like when asked on the telephone if my sister, her daughter, was in her kitchen, she replied "oh I don't know I'll just go and find out" has just been ordered an MRI by a Psychiatrist with whom we had an appointment last week. If she can get one at her age then anyone can!
I thought I had dementia too but I'm only forty four. . .
My memory for names/phone numbers/car number plates was always excellent, and my spelling has always been extremely accurate (although I can't add two numbers together without the aid of a calculator :-)) and in the past few months I've struggled with names, words, phone numbers, spellings (on one particularly bad day I couldn't remember how to spell "won't"), I've been repeating myself over and over again. I've forgotten important dates and events. I've started to run a bath/sink of water and then wandered out of the room and forgotten to turn the taps off (thank goodness I don't have a gas hob - I'd have the house alight in no time). I think my worst memory lapse was a few weeks ago when I went into the kitchen to make lunch and couldn't remember what I needed to get out to make sandwiches, and when I finally assembled the items I couldn't remember in what order I needed to use them in, in order to put the sandwiches together. It sounds really funny reading it back, but at the time it was very distressing. I unload my shopping when I get home from the supermarket then struggle to work out what I need to put away first (I've always had a bit of a routine - e.g. fridge & freezer stuff first - but that's gone right out of the window). Dinner is a completely hit and miss process - on Friday I put some chops in the oven but forgot to put on the potatoes. The chops had to go in the second oven to keep warm while the potatoes cooked. Then I forgot all about putting veg on. Took me over two hours to cook a meal that should have taken around 40 minutes. I repeatedly ask my son what he wants to eat then forget what he's told me and give him something completely different.
I used to be quite intelligent but now I'd struggle to pass the entrance test to be a village idiot 
oh wonderful ! realy, I feel so much better for reading your story Moggie,.
As they say, I shall keep on taking the pills Xx
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