Just Need Some Advice Re: Memory Loss

pandora · #1 10-10-2007, 03:36 PM

Ok...today i had a disussion with my mother......she told me we already had the conversation, i really forgot. Is this memory loss from PTSD?

Does anyone else experience this to extremes? I have to write everything down and I do have a lot of memory lapses and disturbances....anyone else?

mortiis31 · #2 10-10-2007, 03:43 PM

Pandora, my memory is completely shot to shreds, I am not sure if it's Post Traumatic related, or if it's 'just me'...

You're certainly not alone.
XOX

becvan · #3 10-10-2007, 03:44 PM

It's PTSD. It doesn't leave us much room, in our brains, to remember other stuff. I live by my Palm Pilot, without it I'm lost.

I tell people straight up, if it's not written down I won't know about it, so that people are forewarned in advance.

It, of course, gets worse with more stressful times. All part and parcel of PTSD.

bec

Seeking_Nirvana · #4 10-10-2007, 05:24 PM

I have no memory of events that take place 10 minutes ago. I repeat myself constantly and ask others "I don't remember if I told you this already, but....." They usually remind me I have already told them twice, maybe three times.

It is very frustrating.

Peace
Tammy

reallydown · #5 10-10-2007, 05:53 PM

My memeory sucks too...short-term, especially....I know how frustrating it is...Sometimes I stop mid-sentence and have no idea what I was just saying...makes class participation very challenging :(

Marlene · #6 10-10-2007, 09:18 PM

While my short term memory has gotten better than it was when my symptoms were high, it's still not where it was. I kinda figure this is something that's just part of me now.

At work and home, I survive by writing notes for everything. I write them on notepads, I write menus (so I remember what I have food-wise), notes for what bills to pay what week, on calendars, where to go and when to go there. It goes on and on. At work it's even more notes than home. If it's important, it gets written down or it gets forgotten. Another of my adjustments.

For most of the first year after my symptoms, I was repeating myself to my family all the time. We'd have the same conversation at least twice...damn near every time. At first they were fussing at me for repeating myself. Then they got used to. Here for the last several months that particular habit has resolved itself.

Lisa

veiled · #7 11-10-2007, 04:44 AM

We certainly do have memory issues as part of PTSD. We also get hit with a double whammy when on medications. If you are on medications that probably is playing a part in it. Yes, it is frustrating. I forget little things and some big things all the time. It was worse when medicated. I am a person who can watch a movie 5 times and still not remember it. I constantly go oh, I have been wanting to see that movie and watch it and hubs will say you have seen it X amount of times already, so I just ask before I watch it if I have seen it. Does not stop me from watching it again though LOL.

erryyn · #8 11-10-2007, 05:13 AM

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Originally Posted by veiled

I constantly go oh, I have been wanting to see that movie and watch it and hubs will say you have seen it X amount of times already, so I just ask before I watch it if I have seen it. Does not stop me from watching it again though LOL.

*tongue in cheek*
Could be good for him, too. If he ever gives you a present that you really like a lot and you set it aside ... well, he could come along, pick it up, rewrap and hide it until the next holiday/birthday and give it to you all over again. One of the very few bonuses perhaps, especially since meds are so durned expensive.

*big wink*

pandora · #9 11-10-2007, 06:41 AM

Thank you everyone for your input.

nie · #10 11-10-2007, 01:25 PM

I forget a lot of things too. It has gotten worse for me since I started therapy. I guess my brain is too filled up with other things right now.

Veiled -- I like getting to watch movies more than once