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randibear
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i can't believe it did this. i went grocery shopping on monday for a new year's eve party we're having.

i bought 2 gallon zip lock bags and oven bags.

i looked all over the kitchen today for those bags.

guess where they were? i threw them in the trash!!!

mike was going "what are you thinking?"

seems my memory is getting really bad.

anything to help this? i'm having to write everything down....

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astriapage
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I also have this problem-enough where my fiance says he is going to put me in with his mom.

She is in an alzheimer's place!

Posts: 303 | From Jekyll Island, GA | Registered: Sep 2008 | IP: Logged |

bettyg
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i can't multi-task anymore so if i'm doing something, i tell hubby or whoever i can't listen or talk until i get my project done.

yes, i write myself lots of notes! [Frown]

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Geneal
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While I still have occasional issues with memory,

I am now able to multi-task again.

Pick up more than one item and safely deliver it to it's destination.

Go to the pantry and get everything out I need at one time.

This sure beats several trips I've made in the past.

I think diflucan therapy has helped me turn this corner.

Hang in there.

I've often though I had lost my mind.

Only to not remember where exactly I left it. [shake]

Hugs,

Geneal

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blaze
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I may have you beat - only when I was writing out a check for January's rent, did I realize I'd forgotten to pay December's - a $40 mistake and not sure if even that will help me remember.

Also, got summoned for jury duty - hope I get out of it.

Definitely not a good week...

I should have figured something was wrong when I started having to use a 7-day pill reminder container because I could never remember if I'd taken my pills or not and kept having to count what was left to determine if I had.

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sutherngrl
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My brain feels like I have ADD. I can't concentrate on more than one thing at a time. I get very distracted by noise or people talking to me when I am trying to do something else.

Posts: 4035 | From Mississippi | Registered: Jul 2008 | IP: Logged |

adamm
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My mind's turned to crap since I got sick.

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Lymeorsomething
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Plus I think that sickness in general is a distraction. It's definitely hard to focus on peripheral matters when you're imprisoned by health issues.

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Posts: 2062 | From CT | Registered: Jul 2008 | IP: Logged |

B and M
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My memory is not so good.

I can forget something in the time it takes me to go into the next room to get it.

My work is impacted. I forget conversations I previously had. I have notes but I don't always have them handy.

I forget the names of people I work with on a daily basis.

It's funny, it seems like my internal file system is messed up. I can remember everything about the person except their name.

The name will come to me the next day when I stumble across it in my mind.

I have many other nerve and brane symptoms. I feel like I am getting parkenson's disease with the way my muscles are twitching.

I just got back from a 600 mile drive to my LLMD. He is putting me on bicillin shots to see if it helps with my mental & nerve issues.

I hope it does.

B

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jagb09
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Yeah, the memory stuff is a real complaint of mine.

Most other symptoms have gotten much better, the aches, pains, stomach issues, all better.

Not the memory. I was diagnosed with ADD a few years ago while in vet school.

Funny because I never had as many memory/concentration problems before as I did then.

Not until I finally was diagnosed last year did anyone say, "this could all be from Lyme you know"

My LLMD thought my history of not having been diagnosed with ADD until I was 24 was odd.

He said, "You probably have had Lyme all these years you know not ADD"

It gets better depending which meds I am on.

Right now though I am 3 weeks into Mepron and Zithromax and I think I am herxing a little which is making memory worse.

That and mood swings.

Make sure you tell your LLMD that is one of your symptoms too next time you see them.

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jagb09
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Oh and I can relate with throwing out the bags.

How many of us have ever found foods that should have been refrigerated in our pantry instead?

Butter does not do well in the pantry [Smile]

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