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lisa

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but I thought it would be good for me. You all are so nice to me and i need to vent.

Tomorrow, I am going to the neurologist as an emergency patient. I could not wait till Feb to go. I am scared.

For several years now, I have had some memory problems. I have not been able to come up with words when in a conversation with someone. We're talking easy words too. The person I am talking to has to help me find the word I'm looking for. I probably should have gone before now but here lately, it's gotten worse.


It's kinda hard to explain. I will have a thought.....dammit, I am having trouble explaining it. I will have a thought and lose it and then not be able to get it back. Yeah, that's it. I also have a terrible time remembering when something has happened. Short term memory, mostly.

I'm still having trouble coming up with words, for example, cucumber, sour cream, easy words. I do this several times a day. The losing thoughts is new and I'm scared. When I think about it too much, I cry. It may end up not being serious but its frustrating, not being able to think.


I go to the neurologist tomorrow.
 
lisa said:
but I thought it would be good for me. You all are so nice to me and i need to vent.

Tomorrow, I am going to the neurologist as an emergency patient. I could not wait till Feb to go. I am scared.

For several years now, I have had some memory problems. I have not been able to come up with words when in a conversation with someone. We're talking easy words too. The person I am talking to has to help me find the word I'm looking for. I probably should have gone before now but here lately, it's gotten worse.


It's kinda hard to explain. I will have a thought.....dammit, I am having trouble explaining it. I will have a thought and lose it and then not be able to get it back. Yeah, that's it.

I'm still having trouble coming up with words, for example, cucumber, sour cream, easy words. I do this several times a day. The losing thoughts is new and I'm scared. When I think about it too much, I cry. It may end up not being serious but its frustrating, not being able to think.


I go to the neurologist tomorrow.
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You will be in my thoughts. By all means go to the doctor and as respectfully as can be said, take someone with if possible. At least a notepad.

Tell the doctor everything.
 
Wishing you the best Lisa
 
I'll echo what Greg said, if at all possible, take someone with you to take notes. That way you can concentrate on the doctor
without the distraction of trying to write it all down.

Good luck and my prayers are with you.
 
I'll echo what TRL and Greg said, take someone with you. We have a great asset in our daughter who is national certified EMS instructor. She often comes along and asks lots of questions
 
By all means go to the doctor and like was said tell the doctor everything and it is always good to have someone along to listen to what is said. Best of luck.
 
She said stress was causing my problems.

I feel like an idiot for making you all worry about me for nothing. :( I am so sorry.
 
No need to apologize, lisa. You were worried and needed some help to sort thing out.
Better to be know what the problem is than keep on worrying yourself and make it worse.
 
TexasRaceLady said:
No need to apologize, lisa. You were worried and needed some help to sort thing out.
Better to be know what the problem is than keep on worrying yourself and make it worse.
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She did say if I did not find some way to calm down, it would just snowball. I am going to check into meditation. I have always wanted to try it.


Thank you so much for understanding. I was really scared.
 
3 things.
First off .. Just stress .. bull****. Stress is serious. You need to take it seriously. Stress kills more people than smoking.
Second .. make us worry .... bull**** again. You can't MAKE us do anything we don't choose to do. If some of us choose to worry, that's our choice. They choose to worry because of reasons that are their own, not yours. Do you think those people would worry less if they thought you were keeping things from them? You worry about you ... leave others to their own worries. If you're part of their worries, it's because they want you to be.
Third .. I have it on good authority (but not first hand knowledge) that cucumbers are great for stress relief.


Personal thought ... the first action on your part should NOT be attempting to relieve the stress, but to specifically identify the source and mitigate or eliminate it. Otherwise you're just putting a bandaid on a sucking chest wound. For relieving stress that cannot immediately be mitigated or eliminated ... violence works. Martial arts classes. They teach focus. They improve your physical being. And they allow a controlled violent outburst to be harmlessly expended. Strapping a photo of your identified stress source to a heavy bag or better, an opponent's padding and wailing the **** outta it ... definitely helps.
 
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Good luck Lisa but I gotta tell ya, I've had that problem for most of my 62 years. I just figure its the way I'm wired. I constantly walk into a room and stand there wondering why I went there.
 
be9ak7ts16 said:
Good luck Lisa but I gotta tell ya, I've had that problem for most of my 62 years. I just figure its the way I'm wired. I constantly walk into a room and stand there wondering why I went there.
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Who are you? :idunno:....Where am I? :idunno:
It's my life. :D
 
Professur said:
3 things.
First off .. Just stress .. bull****. Stress is serious. You need to take it seriously. Stress kills more people than smoking.
Second .. make us worry .... bull**** again. You can't MAKE us do anything we don't choose to do. If some of us choose to worry, that's our choice. They choose to worry because of reasons that are their own, not yours. Do you think those people would worry less if they thought you were keeping things from them? You worry about you ... leave others to their own worries. If you're part of their worries, it's because they want you to be.
Third .. I have it on good authority (but not first hand knowledge) that cucumbers are great for stress relief.


Personal thought ... the first action on your part should NOT be attempting to relieve the stress, but to specifically identify the source and mitigate or eliminate it. Otherwise you're just putting a bandaid on a sucking chest wound. For relieving stress that cannot immediately be mitigated or eliminated ... violence works. Martial arts classes. They teach focus. They improve your physical being. And they allow a controlled violent outburst to be harmlessly expended. Strapping a photo of your identified stress source to a heavy bag or better, an opponent's padding and wailing the sh!t outta it ... definitely helps.
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I am really trying hard to focus more when I am thinking and talking.

I am way out of shape to be trying Martial Arts classes. I am, however, getting healthier. Just drinking water has really improved how I feel physically, so much.. I am journaling now. I've been trying to meditate when I feel I can. I've been doing a lot more around the house to help my daughter. I go in 3 weeks to get more cortisone shots in my knees. I always feel fantastic after those.

My next step is beginner yoga.

Thank you for your input, Professur.
 
be9ak7ts16 said:
Good luck Lisa but I gotta tell ya, I've had that problem for most of my 62 years. I just figure its the way I'm wired. I constantly walk into a room and stand there wondering why I went there.
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I think my problem is that my thoughts come to me very quickly. Now that I know it's nothing serious, I'm making a concerted effort to just sloooooooow down and also, make lots of lists.

Thank you so much for your well wishes. You are a really great friend to me.
 
lisa said:
I think my problem is that my thoughts come to me very quickly. Now that I know it's nothing serious, I'm making a concerted effort to just sloooooooow down and also, make lots of lists.

Thank you so much for your well wishes. You are a really great friend to me.
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Don't forget shiney things, they distract me constantly.
 
Not to threadjack, but I've noticed myself having similar problems over the past six months, maybe even a year. Times when I can't think of the word and times when I completely forget what I'm doing. It's like a mental block where I just cannot get the thought or the word out. Times where I'll forget a simple task I planned on doing next and I skip right over it. And also my memory used to be flawless but now when somebody in discussion will say a quote and laugh I'll be like "where'd you get that from?", and they're like "you said it", and I just cannot remember that previous conversation. I'm only 24 and its been concerning me more lately, but I always just attribute it to "probably just stress" and brush it off...
 
cheesepuffs said:
Not to threadjack, but I've noticed myself having similar problems over the past six months, maybe even a year. Times when I can't think of the word and times when I completely forget what I'm doing. It's like a mental block where I just cannot get the thought or the word out. Times where I'll forget a simple task I planned on doing next and I skip right over it. And also my memory used to be flawless but now when somebody in discussion will say a quote and laugh I'll be like "where'd you get that from?", and they're like "you said it", and I just cannot remember that previous conversation. I'm only 24 and its been concerning me more lately, but I always just attribute it to "probably just stress" and brush it off...
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I have similar episodes as well.
 
lisa said:
She said stress was causing my problems.

I feel like an idiot for making you all worry about me for nothing. :( I am so sorry.
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Ok so I'm a whole month late.

But yea, stress is a mitch. Get that under control ASAP.

Coming from someone who just got out of the ER for a stress migraine.
 
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