I had been having difficulty with cognitive ability.........trouble remembering, focusing, mis-typing, writing. As if my brain could not keep up as it used to. I am on Lithium and when I told doc about the cognitive difficulties, he decreased my Lithium dose. Its been a week and I already notice a difference. Now I just hope the decrease doesnt affect my disorder. Might consider your meds?

my memory is crap. I can't remember the simplest things for the life of me....Thats why I stopped going to college. I studied my little ass off and I fail every time. I can't remember anything.

Jesska Ann, I too have case of CRS.
I had have amnisa. when my mind recalls a pc of unpleasent memory it retriggers the amnisa.
I get so frustrated because I know that I know something but userly when I need info, I cant remember but I will recall whatever it was that I tried to recall.

With assistance of teacher I had to basically restart school all over and I didnt master grammer.

with assistance I remember graduating highschool. which I remember after I obtain 3, ya 3 GED's.

To hear my Mother, family, friends, formor co workers etc... take about my life and about me. its like wow that Was me.

My meds cause me to be physically sluggish and on meds I often have brain glichs.
glichs are also known as brain farts.

I have a writen schedule and activity schedule and med chart that I comply with.
I use to half to use post a notes.

If your currently on meds, you may or may not need mg adjustment. Hopefully that is all that it is. You may opt to speak with your Dr about med adjustment.

Take care

Can so relate to what you say. Caffine doesn't help me much there is such a thing as too much of a good thing! I can't focus to save my life. It seems like with being a beeper,one also has a shot at having ADD which I do in spades. I can't get anything done unless I have a deadline or the like....

but what do u guys do in order to cope with not remembering things? here are my strategies:

1. i HAVE a small notebook whenever i'm on work. if there are verbal orders or important things to write, i jot it down.

2. I use menemonics

3. I relax. if i need to foucs that's a first. esp on my job.

what are ur ways of coping and what do u tell yourself when frustration hit you?

I work in parts, warehousing , shipping. I use all the tech we have. I have an IPAC that has around 600 phone numbers. It has notes, tasks, alarms, everything. They call it my brain and they don't know half the truth on that one. I have it synched to the computer at work and home so I can work on it. I also use the notes and scheduler and voice record on my cell. I also us big notebooks to scribble on at work and lots of clipboards and computer files to keep it all going and so others can find it in case a lift squashes me.
Use the tech that's here.

I have trouble remembering too. It's not real bad but bad enough. I also drop everything on the floor all the time. It's a pain.

My short term memory stinks, yet I can remember things from 20 yrs ago. Happened when I started Lamictal, guess that's the price we pay for stability.

Yeah, my short term memory is not great, and long term is excellent.
I write things down alot, and ask people questions if I need to, or ask for help. It was hard to ask for help, but I am glad I do, because it helps me to live and function with the lack of memory. I explain it to close friends and family, and now they understand if I do not remember things. I was on Lithium, and now switching to Lamictal.

HI. I just had electroshock therapy and I just stopped three weeks ago. I lost a lot of my memory. I can't remember past events and things I've done with people. I meet a new person and I don't remember their names twenty minutes later. I talk really slow and sometimes don't remember some words. It's really sad. I am frustrated and I feel really sad. I feel like my life has been taken away from me.

What I do to cope is I write things down on a journal. When something happens or if I have a conversation with somebody, I write them down in the journal. I also keep a calendar so I will know what to do every day.

I am hopping my memory will come back to me. My sister just sent me an article

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104058044&sc=fb&cc=fp#email

It's how to exercise your brain so you can improve it.

I hope the article helps somebody. It sucks not remembering things.

i also have trouble remembering things. i was told it's part of being BP. wonderful eh? i write things down, also have a calendar.
hubby helps me remember things. i ask questions when i need to. its frustrating for me not to remember shit anymore, but i guess it could be worse.

I too am having ECT treatments and it has affected my memory (also having bipolar and taking lamictal is probably contributing). I deal by keeping everything (work and personal) down in one journal by date. Then every morning I go back through the journal. It takes a few minutes but that is the best method I can come up with. I am not to technologically savvy, so cell phone/ipods and such don't work for me. Well, I do use the calendar feature in Microsoft Outlook, and the email folders. Every once and a while I go back through the email files too, to make sure I have taken care of everything.

At times I feel like an absent-minded professor, never being able to remember short-term goals or tasks. My wife feels as if she is living with a child ME. I am interested in other peoples solution to this maddening dilemma.

its helpful really when i write down what the head nurse says. when im not contented with what i read, i write it down.

a notebook and a pen is the best life saver ever.

..because the fear of not remembering can eat you alive.