Sometimes at work (I’m a cook) I ask somebody to put some…of that… ya know… plastic stuff…over the food…SARAN WRAP!..Or put that food in the …uhh…COOLER!
I have been sitting here for 5 minutes trying to think of the Vice Presidents name…It escapes me. I can only come up with Joe and not even sure if that is right. i followed the election and I cannot remember his name.
I’m sorta scared.
JHC, after another 5 I just remembered…Biden!I’m not poking fun either BTW.
Seems to me you can still always come up with what you need, it just takes a little longer now. So what? There’s more harm in worrying about it excessively.
The older you get, the more stuff gets jammed into your head, and the easier it is to get mixed up between one thing and another similar thing. It’s just a by-product of experience, rather than any sort of mental problem associated with age (though you can’t rule that out completely either, of course).
Good god how many times are you going to keep posting this thread??
MadTheSwine, I’ve been told that if it’s Alzeimer’s, the word you were trying to think of would not come back to you. I hope that makes you feel a little better.
I don’t know how old you are. (Probably 40, right?) I thought things were bad in my fifties. Then wham! I hit sixty and the bottom fell out of my brain.
I’m going to have to start writing notes on a thing and wrapping it around my whatever so that I won’t forget you know.
They say memory is the second thing to go, but I can’t remember what the first is.
I was told that it was normal to walk into the kitchen and not remember why you went in there in the first place. If you have Alzeimer’s, you don’t remember the kitchen. And, yes, that did make me feel better. I officially can no longer multitask at work, and I have to jot reminders for every single task.
Ooh, ooh, another thing: I can recall faces just fine but I’m finding it much harder to associate a name with it. The other day, I was trying to tell my wife something about Tom Cruise, and I was all “You know, the Scientologist that used to have the cute red headed wife and now has the cute brunette wife. Valkyrie . . . Top Gun . . . that other movie . . . you know.”
I’m 52, by the way.
The difference between Alzeimer’s and cramming to much in your head as you get older is simple.
Think of it like this:
It’s normal to forget where you left your keys, it’s NOT NORMAL for you to forget a key opens a car.
It’s normal to forget where you parked your car, it’s NOT NORMAL for you to forget how to drive a car.
It’s normal to forget what you learned in college, it’s NOT NORMAL for you to forget that you ever went to college
Your brain only can process so much information. How much it does, varies from person to person. Some people, for lack of a better word are just scatterbrains. Other people never have issues.
Your brain has “long term” and “short term” memory. After a bit your brain “moves” data from “short term,” to “long term” memory. Sort of like shifting data on your computer from the “C” drive to the “P” drive.
How each person recalls such data varies. Retrograde amnesia is very common in trauma cases. We’ve all heard of a person who gets hit by a car, or whatever, and is awake and totally coherent. Then a day or two later, can’t remember a thing. This is normal as well
I’m a caterer. Yesterday I had a pasta bar to deliver for lunch. I remembered to send everything…except the pasta! :smack::smack::smack::smack:
Maybe its occupationally related?
I have exactly the same… uh, what’s the word… starts with a T, or maybe a P… you, know, uh… PROBLEM! That’s the word, problem!
FYI, I’m 20.
Do you drink soda or coffee or anything with Splenda? I used to drink a lot of Diet Rite and developed the same problem of not being able to remember basic stuff like that and as soon as I cut all the Splenda out of my diet it was like the fog in my brain vanished. It has been said by many people, though mostly in blogs from what I can tell online, that memory loss is a side effect of sucralose (especially in diabetics) so you might want to keep that in mind.
It has been happening to me for years, but it is getting worse and worse. Although my surgeon tells me I am nuts, I swear that I lose more brain cells every time he puts me under. It makes me sad.
Heck, when I was in college, one of my roommates (20-ish, like me) was looking for “the, you know, the um . . . the um . . . you know, one of THOSE SWEEPING THINGS!!!”
(a broom)
You’re all right.
I don’t know how much we can rely on the article - it isn’t a medical journal, but this caught my eye (because of this thread):
The can’t remember the name of objects or people gets frustrating and I can get crabby about it. Limiting the number of inputs you have helps. After you overload to a certain point it’s easy to relax because none of the input and output makes sense. Then I shut down and don’t respond to people and I leave the area to recover. It’s the classic old wife berating the husband that he tunes her out, but he doesn’t respond because he doesn’t process it.
I’m in my 30’s and for a long time my memory has been crap. It’s not uncommon to go to the store for, say five items, and come home with only one or two. Recently when I was in college I could read a chapter of a book and show up the next day to class forgetting 90% or more of what I read. I’m constantly forgetting the names of things. I tried getting away with saying “That thing,” or similar, until my wife or whoever I’m around would keep guessing wrong, and so now I when I forget a word I have to give a detailed description of what I’m thinking of desperately struggling to think of the word and all the while feeling like an idiot.
Makes me worried for when I’m old and might actually get dementia or Alzheimer’s or anything else that affects memory. I can’t imagine living with worse memory than I have now.
As a matter of fact, my doctor just today was explaining to me the deleterious effects of artifical sweetener. It acts upon the neurological system and can cause a variety of odd effects - in my case, my right hand that can be cool when my left hand is warm, something which I erroneously attributed to the onset of some sort of some sort of circulatory problem.
At any rate, I’ve had the symptoms you’ve (the OP) described for years. I can often remember all sorts of peripheral detail surrounding the word or thing I’m trying to think of, but not the word or thing itself. (Apparently even a sharp guy like Hugh Hefner has this problem. I read recently where he said that his mind is like an overcrowded attic in which the box containing what he’s looking for is hidden behind boxes of other things. :D)
In my case, the symptoms come and go but they don’t seem to have gotten progressively worse in terms of severity as time has gone by.
In short, I wouldn’t worry about it. It seems to be a common ailment among a sizable portion of the population as it ages.
This is something I intend to ask my doctor about. It’s gotten to where I ask my husband a question, and as he’s answering, I forger what I asked…
I’ve had that problem for years… going at least as far back as my early 20s, in fact.
In my case, though, it turned out that the worst episodes almost always come in the 24 hours before a migraine… which, as it turns out, isn’t a particularly unusual symptom (it even has a name - “transient aphasia”).
The doc told me it’s nothing to worry about, assuming it doesn’t get any worse. It’s temporary, totally harmless (except for that time it screwed up a job interview for me), and gives me enough advance notice to pop my migraine pills before the real suffering begins.