So sorry.

I feel your pain. Sometimes I even forget what I have been watching or what it was about just during a commercial!

Gentle hugs, Linda

Unfortunately, many of us have this problems. I feel like a VERY old lady when my husband puts on a movie & I often have to ask if we saw it before. On the plus side it saves me $ on buying books. 10-12 months after I read a book, I won't remember everything that happens.

Yea it sucks, I no longer work because I CAN'T REMEMBER SH...... Same job for 12yrs and suddenly I would forgot how to do something. Tried another department wasn't able to learn it. I would end up in tears & was totally embarrassed. I would have to ask how to do something 10 seconds after they told me.

I know it frustrates my husband because I ask the same question over & over but it is what it is.

ohhh, gentle hugs. I am having lots more cognitive issues - am noticing them more and it is so frustrating. I am forgetting more and more. so sorry xox

So sorry you're in this club. It happens to me more often when I'm tired. I'll be in the middle of a conversation and completely forget what we were discussing.

If someone tells me to do something and gives me more than three steps to accomplish the task, I forget the first step. Knowing that, I know that I need to write down anything that has four or more steps.

Here's a funny. I was telling someone just tonight that I needed to buy a new watch, and that I needed one with an elastic waistband. Then I backtracked and said no, an elastic ankle band. Finally I got to wristband. I knew the word I was looking for was a body part, just took me a while to figure out which one. I laughed about it. Come to think about it, "flexible" would have been a better word than "elastic."

I am sorry that you are having this problem. My hubby and I laugh about who gets the memory that day.

On the other hand, I know it bothers him sometimes that I want to watch a show that I have seen three or four times before. I let him know that it helps me go to sleep easier. Lucky for me, he believes that the more sleep I get the fewer symptoms I have.

Good luck

memory and cognitive problems have been a huge problem for me since i was in my 20's and was fired. it took that to realize the cognitive challenges i was having! hsct got me out of a wheelchair a few years ago but memory and cognition are a challenge every day. it has totally worn my partner out - i'm 37 but it must seem like i am 3x that age! my mind is not just not me anymore. for me, no amount of minimizing or ignoring it solves anything. it's so weird to not even totally know who you are anymore.

I realized how bad my problem is when I see a TV program that I know that I have seen before and I do not remember part of the story or subplots, etc. It is weird and sad that I can watch a program over and over again and get more out of it each time. What a shitty thing to deal with.