Might Have Asked This Before?

[TWR]

Have you a VERY bad Memory????

[ummmm]

Short term, yes.

[Cloverjo]

I have a terrible memory. Someone could ask me to go and do something, I'll stand up to do it but in that time I will have forgotten what I was going to do. It's embarrassing really. Don't ask me to remember anyone's face. It's ridiculous how bad that is. I didn't recognise my own son once. :((

[Bertrum]

The smart answer would be I cant remember but yes short term memory abysmal no one who knows me will ever leave a message with me

[mikey4444]

I didn't used to have but it seems to be failing me now. I am now reduced to wring down the name of my nephews and nieces partners ( and their dogs ! )

I am 63 this weekend and I am a bit bothered that I might be having the start of dementia problems, and thats the truth !

[Old_Geezer]

I've always had a... a .. a... what was I saying ?

[TWR]

I keep shouting at myself because of this, yet there was a place I used to del to in South Norwood London that was a real pig to find, that was 30+ years ago, I could go there today, I'm glad I'm not alone.

[Cloverjo]

Mikey, it sounds like normal ageing. Don't worry. I know 63 is young nowadays, but our brains don't know that.:)

[Bertrum]

Mikey from what I've read on AB a number of posters think you're suffering already but I know how you feel I write notes and then forget where I've put them that's if I can remember writing them

[mikey4444]

Jo...what bothers me is that I can remember things from the 50's and 60's as clear as day but find it difficult to recall what I did last week !

[Cloverjo]

Same here, Mikey, and I'm only in my 40s.

[mikey4444]

Bertrum.....I now use the "notes" facility, on my iphone 6, to keep important things, so at least I know where they are.

Now where is that bloody phone ?

[Cloverjo]

I can't remember the 50s and 60s because I wasn't there, but I'm the same with 70s and 80s.

[Bertrum]

I look at it now as if my memory is like a hard drive it can only hold so much, so anything I consider to be irrelevant doesn’t get saved

[Cloverjo]

I've tried to remember the dates of kings and queens, and some poems, but they just don't stick in my brain. Other useless things do, though.

[ummmm]

I'm the same. I can remember conversations I had in school but forget what I needed to buy when I walk into a shop....

[steg]

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Cloverjo
I have a terrible memory. Someone could ask me to go and do something, I'll stand up to do it but in that time I will have forgotten what I was going to do. It's embarrassing really. Don't ask me to remember anyone's face. It's ridiculous how bad that is. I didn't recognise my own son once. :((
09:25 Wed 01st Jun 2016Report

I have the same problems, I can be doing something stop for a second (go to loo etc) and I'll start doing something else. I also can't remember what folk look like I once walked past my girlfriend (at the time) smiled at her cause she looked pretty, it was my mate that had to tell me it was her

[janbee]

From years ago?.. yes, perfect eidetic memory. From 5 minutes ago? No way José.

[DTCwordfan]

If you are worried, Mikey, make your way to the quack and they can arrange tests - far better as to the drugs now to nail it as quickly as possible and slow it down - though memory loss is an ageing thing. Can you remember what you did two days ago and say a week ago....?

[ummmm]

Well...I forgot I was suppose to be working today until my boss just turned up. Whats bad about that is my boss was here for dinner yesterday!

It's not as bad as it sounds though as I don't have set hours. I sent him away and told him to come back in half an hour. I'm washed and dressed it's just that my son is in the bathroom and as he's lost his door key...again!!...I have to find out what he's doing, which I'll probably forget...