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Recently I literally can’t find the word for something when I need it. Obvious day to day objects, people’s names, places.
I’ve come across brain fog and memory gaps in some symptoms, but I feel really clear headed when it happens.
Is this normal?
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sarah05599 marion69743
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Hi , yes I'm the same I forget ppls names, go into a room and forget why I went in there but the strangest thing I have had was 2 weeks ago I was on my cycle (not sure if this was to do with it) but was chatting to my partner(thank God it was just him) and my words came out all jumbled up for a few days on and off my friend said I should mention it to doc.
LouiseScotland sarah05599
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I've had to take a deep breath and sort my words out sometimes, weird
JoMarie1970 marion69743
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Happens to me so often now! The simplest word will slip my mind. It is very frustrating!! Hoping it's just a peri symptom and I'm not actually having early dementia at 48!
LouiseScotland JoMarie1970
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This started with me mid-40s. Now, mid 50s,it's not any better but not any worse so I don't think it's dementia! Having said that, I doubt my other half would agree, he's often to be heard referring to me as The Crazy Lady
marion69743
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Thanks all so much. I do now (depressingly) feel very ‘normal’ and will stop worrying that I have early on-set dementia! I am only 50 and really have very few of the obvious symptoms that people always talk about. Just a lot of weird little things that just mean I don’t feel like me anymore.
I’m trying to relax & go with it. It’s a phase and it will pass. But I do need to be able to function & do my job!!
Thanks again. So glad I found this forum!
fiona27807 marion69743
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LouiseScotland fiona27807
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That's a menopausal comment if I ever heard one!
LouiseScotland marion69743
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Instruction to son this morning..."Put your...ermm...stuff in the...whatsitcalled". What I ACTUALLY meant to say was to put his clothes in the washing machine.
Guest marion69743
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Oh yes, I sometimes feel as if the word I want is part of a jigsaw, and someone has just tipped it on the floor of my brain, so I scramble around trying to find it. I was so anxious about it fearing it might have been the start of Alzheimer's, which does nothing for your already over tired under rested brain, but now, I just take a deep breath, and find away to remember the word, as others say, by thinking around it.