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Memory retention - try this simple test sometime.

Get a family member or friend to read out to you, slowly, just three or four short & simple worded sentences from any book in the house. It is your job to listen as best you can & then repeat back those sentences to the family member are accurately as possible.

Not easy - I assure you.

I forget Barbra :-D

What was the thread about ?? :-)

That'll be it then Susan :-D seems from all the replies that I am not the only one anyway lol

Hi RR,

From what I understand, you can also suffer memory loss during menopause... :-| along with all the other lovely symptoms.

Thats because your an old git :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

watch yer mate :-D :-D :-D :-D

George :-)

Hello Rose,

As you can see from my avatar I am thinking about it, but, I have forgotten the question....LOL

As we get older, we may wonder more about the hereafter - I frequently find myself in another room wondering "What am I here after"

Tec :-D

I am on statins but I think I had the same problem before I started taking them so can't blame them.

Thats very interesting JoyBoroughAngel. I have recently not been able to remember things whiih were very obvious when I did. I did start to worry a bit about it but then forgot to worry! I am on a research trial for those statins and have been for nearly a year. I will tell the nurse/co-ordinator when I next attend Maybe thats the reason for my poor memory.

Vera

My OH & myself help each other out .with names & places
our youngest son .says when we are in company its like a two ronnies sketch .i start he finishes .i am the short one :-D

lots of people on statins have memory problems
that they realise are cause by the tablets

so check you pills all memory strugglers x

regarding Foxy,

was it his Mum that referred to the microwave as

"Michaelwave?"

LOL I still do!!

Don't let it worry you Rose! I maybe only 19 but I freely admit that my short term memory is shocking, and can relate to many of the stories on this thread. It's quite good for the long term, but like all of us, the occasional name does escape me :-D

Matthew

That began happening to me when I was young and would gallop upstairs and then wonder what it was I had come up for - I would remember again when I returned downstairs only to go upstairs................................. Nowadays if that happens It takes me forever in the stair lift!!

Eeeeeer What WAS the question?he he ,seems from the latest scuttlebutt from the scientific community ,you start to loose the old brain cells in the middle teens ,and the recall in the early thirties ooooerrr ,an old fogie like me ,has no perishing chance ,lol.Fred.

I have stopped worrying about it, been happening for years. Hav total recall of events in my youth and right through until now but names of people and sometimes things often elude me. I usually give up and they come to me when least expecting it.

I do find I sometimes struggle for a word but can usually dredge it up from the murky depths of my mind. When my late Mum had a stroke she would get part way through a sentence and stop and then repeat it hoping I suppose that the next word would come, I told her her needle was stuck. Luckily she got over the problem after a week or so.

I worry that I will get worse but I put it down to age and the fm sleep problem.

Lizx

Robert Lindsay was Foxy wasn't he?

I had a friend who drank Tia Marie and went to Porchmouth which I thoght must be her own little quirk.

Then I met her elderly uncle who had recently been to a barley cue at which somebody had arrived on a motor peg.

Not had that ...yet...Sharron, but it just reminded me that my mum could never say the word candelabra (lol not that it cropped up in conversation often ) it always came out as Candle-a-bra :-D