Pain meds can make you a bit blurry if you are taking any.

Everyone forgets stuff anyway,Sue from Downunder.
 

I use to be able to keep hundreds of phone nymbers in my head, now I am lucky if I can remember mine. When I am addressing one of my kids, I go through every name in the house including the dogs name.

Lately I will turn the sprinklers on out side and forget about them for hours. I will also be driving and forget about where I am going. While my current nurologist says I am fine, I do feel that I am getting worse, and to make matters even more complicated three gnerations before me all have had early onset of Alzheimers.

One thing I did do several years ago was get a palm pilot. I create tasks for everything, and I work from that list, I also store all my numbers in it now. I take it everywhere I go.

There are many factors why we have these memory problems, the disease itself, the impact of the hormones and all of pathways effected by the body not being able to absorb the approprate nutrients, the medicines we take for the disease, the toxins in our body, both from the die off and the ones that we come in contact with, and the big one, the stress we face on a daily basis from this disease.

I would not panic just yet, but organizing yourself will keep you from hitting you head against the wall trying to remember something that you we supposed to do.

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I could write a book, really, about all the things I forgot and still forget. Lately I have been trying to forget that I am here, not feeling so good and am much more aware of when I forget something, along with many other symptoms that I just never noticed and mostly likely "forgot" that I had them.

It will get better with abx, tell your husband to have some patience and some day soon he will have all of you back, a much more loving and happy wife. They have no way of knowing just what this disease is all about.

Corinne
 

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Symptoms List

Unexplained fevers, sweats, chills, or flushing

Unexplained weight change (loss or gain )

Fatigue, tiredness, poor stamina

Unexplained hair loss

Swollen glands: list areas

Sore throat

Testicular pain/pelvic pain

Unexplained menstrual irregularity

Unexplained milk production; breast pain

Irritable bladder or bladder dysfunction

Sexual dysfunction or loss of libido

Upset stomach or abdominal pain

Change in bowel function (constipation, diarrhea)

Chest pain or rib soreness

Shortness of breath, cough

Heart palpitations, pulse skips, heart block

Any history of a heart murmur or valve prolapse?

Joint pain or swelling: list joints

Stiffness of the joints or back

Muscle pain or cramps

Twitching of the face or other muscles

Headache

Neck creaks and cracks, neck stiffness, neck pain

Tingling, numbness, burning or stabbing sensations, shooting pains, skin hypersensitivity

Facial paralysis (Bell's Palsy)

Eyes/Vision: double, blurry, increased floaters, light sensitivity

Ears/Hearing: buzzing, ringing, ear pain, sound sensitivity

Increased motion sickness, vertigo, poor balance

Lightheadedness, wooziness, unavoidable need to sit or lie down
Tremor

Confusion, difficulty in thinking

Difficulty with concentration, reading

Forgetfulness, poor short term memory, poor attention, problem absorbing new information

Disorientation: getting lost, going to wrong places

Difficulty with speech or writing; word or name block

Mood swings, irritability, depression

Disturbed sleep -- too much, too little, fractionated, early awakening

Exaggerated symptoms or worse hangover from alcohol

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Michael

when everything is calm i seem to get a little of my memory back.

One of the things I had to do was turn over matters to my husband that were of importance to us that I used to do: taxes, insurance, bills, etc. A bummer.

Take care and be assured you are not alone.

tj
 

Tree, glad you showed durameter's comments here!

Amy, yes, I suffer from that too. I recently did neuro psy testing on memory, intelligence, and MMPI, Minn. multi-phasic index to see if I have EARLY onset Alzheimer's/dementia or neuro brain lyme.

NO answers to what I went for. They came up with "hypochondriac & depression, somatization disorder"! I could have hung him up. So don't go that route.

I did the testing since my brother's wife, died of early onset Alzheimer's at age 40, yes 40! She had this mindrobbing illness for 8-14 years. I knew the symptoms too well.

Use the suggestion or palm pilot, make a to do list & mark off as they are done, or have those great POST IT notes everywhere!

Better days are ahead ... just not soon enough! Betty G., Iowa
 

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It can be very upsetting. It has improved with me, but last year, I was forgetting stuff almost immediately after I said it, and kept thinking i had a stroke.

I would have full conversations on the phone with friends and forget it the next day when they continue the same conversation, and then I just fake it, until it comes back to me.

I have paid bills, made important phone calls, written letters etc, forgetten. Then all of a sudden it just POPS back into my head, hours, weeks, days and even months later.

I had a cell phone last year, brand new. Played with it eveyday trying to figure out how to work it. would teach myself, and forget the next day and go back to making the same mistakes I was making before I learned how to use it. Did this many times. Lost all my messages, before even checking them. Kept erasing them, thinking they were not new messages, just ones i was sending myself trying to figure out phone.

Just about lost my mind. God it was awful. Things are better now, thank god, but still need improvement.

Hope your husband can come around and understand soon.

Lymiecanuck