My injury happened in Jan. 2006, and my long-term memory is so much worse than my short term. I wonder too why no doctors ever talk about memory.

First... every situation is different, ask your doctor directly. Sometimes I go in with a list of question for him because my memory is so bad and our time together is so short, I don't want to waste the time by forgetting the important stuff. This has helped me alot. Also, leave a space to write down his answers so that you don't forget them later on.

As for my memory loss. I hasn't gotten better. But, I have learned to deal with it. Association tricks to help me remember things and the all important note pad which is never far from my side.

my injury was 3/26/06 and about after a year my memory has been improving. Its not 100% but I have about a 2-3 week span of memory. After that I cant really remember much after that. But its alot better then not being able to remember things 10 mins ago. No doctor has ever even tried to treat my memory loss. They just focus on the headaches, that still havent gone away. I have taken my memory improvement into my own hands and found that doing puzzles and crosswords has helped. I also repeat everything I do and say over and over again. Keeping things like keys in the same place every day can also be helpful. But dont always take what doctors tell you to heart. I was told after 6 months if there was no improvement i'd prety much be stuck. But I have gotten better. Very slowly, but I am getting better.

Good luck
Aloha.

My injury is 18 months old now and my memory is slowly getting better ,not ever day ,not fast enough to really notice ,but yes it is so much better than before when i couldnt even remember what I was thinking or what I was just about to say.It is frustrating but the brain never stops healing ,how fast it does it is anyones guess i think no matter how bad the injury.

As you have stated everyone is different but if it helps, I can vouch for continued improvement in my sons case 9 years on, both in memory and other cognitive areas.For him he can store the knowledge but has difficulty in retrieving it, it just takes so much effort that it used to drain him. See your speech and language therapist for tricks of the trade to help with memory. Maybe family members could help by reading up on this subject for you. If I can find the name of a book that I found helpful will post it for you. Never give up hope, we found that the post injury period of 2-3 years on to be significant for changes in cognitive areas.

I second what Chenoah and daz2007 said; my experence has been similar.

My short term memory is improving but i have to really work hard to get info into long term memory.

My daughter's injury was last March and memory seems to be the most difficult thing to regain. She has problems in HS because of memory issues. But like you, the doctors advise us to patient.

its been almost 2 years now and i think my memory is still getting better every day_stress crap doctors and drugs and alcohol will slow the process but the brian will never stop healing!

I find it hard now to pull the memories out that i do manage to lay down ,And im still not sure how i am laying these momories down!This is the next chapter I guess ,1 being able to trust the memories is something I struggle with on a daily basis now.
And in my case I am best to try to remember somthing vurbally not written ,-or per say ,ill remember what i said but not what I have written .we are all different.

We are 15 months into recovery and I would say that my sons father has maybe a 10% short term memory. Some days he will remember things for longer periods, but it seems the majority of days he retains for maybe 5 minutes.

I used to have to jot EVERYTHING down....now if I even THINK I might forget something, I write it down...best to be prepared

In my case I still have problems with short term memory.Most of the time I have to make notes.Lots of notes.I do know that when I get tired then it is harder for me to retain memories.As you said everyone is different when it comes to what happened to them and every TBI is different also.

P.S.
I forgot to tell you when my TBI happened,it was Jan.27,1992.