memory loss

psyart
psyart Member Posts: 600
edited 3. Sep 2009, 11:31 in Living with Arthritis archive
Hi

does anyone else who takes MXT find that their memory is going?? or has mine just decided to get up and go to someone with a better body??

sometimes I do find it very scary as I am looking as things but just cant find the words!! e.g. a hose pipe!! wanted to say what it was but the words were not there!! and sometimes in the middle of a conversation, words just do not come!!!

now - who am I ????
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  • skezier
    skezier Member Posts: 11,333
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    hi Louise,

    My memory has left the building, I don't know if mine is tablets or age but like you say you go for a word and something ridiculous comes out. I started having it about 10 years ago and its something that I find comes and goes with me. I hope as you adjust to the tablets and the shock of things it gets better for you. Take care, Cris x
  • elnafinn
    elnafinn Member Posts: 7,412
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    psyart wrote:
    Hi

    does anyone else who takes MXT find that their memory is going?? or has mine just decided to get up and go to someone with a better body??

    sometimes I do find it very scary as I am looking as things but just cant find the words!! e.g. a hose pipe!! wanted to say what it was but the words were not there!! and sometimes in the middle of a conversation, words just do not come!!!

    now - who am I ????

    Hi

    Same happens to me and I am not on meth. I am nearer 60 years than not so put mine down to age. I often cannot find the word and either someone helps me out when I describe what I mean or I do eventually think of the word. I also go ie upstairs and cannot for the life of me remember what I was going to do. When I go back downstairs I remember. Killing on the dodgy knees :roll: At the moment it does not worry me unduly.

    Luv
    Elna x
    The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.

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  • page35
    page35 Member Posts: 1,081
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi
    i get this too
    im 33 so not my age, it started with the RA and i think its worse when i feel worse. i often say the wrong word or totally forget what im talking about :roll:
    i think arthur is on my mind so much some days that i cant think of anything else, thats what i put it down to anyway.
    what was the question? :D
    page
  • debatat
    debatat Member Posts: 659
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I get this and I am not on mtx. It is terrible when I can't think of the word and am just pointing!!!! Interesting that others have it too. What were we talking about? :oops:

    Deb
  • page35
    page35 Member Posts: 1,081
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    oh deb ive done that afew times
    cant think what something is called pointed at it and shouted "that thing" :oops:
    well ive always been abit nuts so i dont think anyone minds :D
    page
  • joyful164
    joyful164 Member Posts: 2,401
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Yes, I do find it scary. I know I'm 65 now and perhaps things like memory loss can start, but like someone just said, it's left the building. Especially when you want to say something like, oh gosh, forgotten............. :? what................I was going to ...say
  • lindah
    lindah Member Posts: 445
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I find that it's worse when I have had a bad night(most nights).
    I am not on the same drugs,I worry too cos my mam had alzheimers.
    Don't know what I did before those yellow stickit things came out.
    Linda H 8)
  • scattered
    scattered Member Posts: 326
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Lol, I'm 21 and have been losing words for years! I lose all sorts of things: words, things, events, conversations. Some of my best conversations involve things like:

    "Have you seen where I put my... *makes random hand motions in mid-air* the things you use and in comes out?" ie: pen.

    "I was walking long the... long green stuff that grows on the ground... when I fell over." ie: grass.

    My friends think it's hilarious. I've just got used to it.
  • woodbon
    woodbon Member Posts: 4,969
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi, I have the same problems the only thing is I'm not on the same drugs! :shock: But I am on strong pain killers, so I suppose they may slow me down a bit. It can feel worrying though, especially after going upstairs and then not being able to remember what I came up for. :oops: Love Sue
  • psyart
    psyart Member Posts: 600
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    thank you everyone for replies!!!! you have made me feel better as sometimes I do get worried about it!!!! mind you, if my memory was that bad I would forget what I was worried about!!!!!!!

    take care all of you and just remember that we are all here!!!!!!


    Louise
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