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Speech or Memory Loss?

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haley38445
haley38445

Has anyone’s speech been affected by CFS? Or their memory? My short term memory basically is very bad and my speech is suffering as well. It’s hard to form words sometimes. Or I’ll stutter often. Doesn’t matter if I’m having an episode or not. It just happens.

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  • claire19999
    claire19999 haley38445

    Posted

    Can't find the right words. Memory v bad, prob due to insomnia, but it concerns me.

  • simon13633
    simon13633 haley38445

    Posted

    Both my speech and memory have been affected by what I assume is my M.E. I seem to have had some form of retrograde amnesia whereby chunks of my memory have all but disappeared. I have snapshots of past memories that I can't build a prolonged stream of memories around, if that makes sense. My short term memory is absolutely dreadful and can forget things in a moment. Following and engaging in conversation is a challenge because of the brain fog/mind exhaustion and stringing a few sentences together can be difficult. I can forget what point I was trying to make mid sentence...so embarasssing. The scary thing is that these things seem to have got worse not better over about a 20 year span.

    • mike76241
      mike76241 simon13633

      Posted

      Hi Simon,

      suggest you go down to doc's and INSIST on MRI scan which takes

      15min, which will pin point any problem with great accuracy,

      next step medication, which must be changed within a wk if any

      side effects, request metantine first just 20mg a day

      important to take same time every day,

      hardening of the arteries/cholesterol levels, shallow breathing

      poor diet/lack of exercise all contributes to memory loss,

  • Rener
    Rener haley38445

    Posted

    Are You taking gabapentin?  If so there is a possible answer! Talk to GP could be some med but gabapentin is known  to cause this. 
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