Some of what I experience is absent mindedness, the problems a day dreamer has their whole life, not being present, not paying attention. That's nothing new, but what is really bothering me is "mental laziness." I especially notice it doing math problems in my head, even simple ones. If I can do them on paper, the apparatus is still there, but it takes an inordinate amount of concentration to do them without pencil and paper and I resort to the calculator to check them. This is new. I noticed it several years ago with a problem regarding how much sorghum we could expect from our field of cane. It involved how much cane per acre and how much juice per cane and how much sorghum from that juice which is 1:5--that I remember because I was the one stirring the juice. In the past I would at least have tried to do the problem, even if I didn't solve it the fastest, but when I thought "let someone else do it, its not important"---that worried me. Diz talked about our eyes fuzzing out, sometimes I think I have brain fuzz. I have seen it referred to as brain fog. Does it get better when the MG is better? Can you think more clearly after IVIG or PLEX? b.

B - now that you mention it - I think I might have been better during PLEX. Thinking back - I felt great and it wasn't just muscles. Right now - if I have a busy day I take a little extra mestinon which seems to help the brain fog! I certainly don't understand it - but there is definitely a large role for acetylcholine in the brain...

I wish there were more researchers studying MG to answer all these questions!!!

Yes,
I amat work for 10-12 hours a day and all over the place. only have my pill bottle with me.
Every day when I feel my breathing getting labored and my arm heavy I lok at the clock to see if it's time I can take a mest. Then I think...did I take it already? I will not be able to remember many times so just don't take it and sufer the next 4 hours. I think- next time- I will write myself a note on my desk telling me when I took my last pill. Then I forget to write it down:) This is a daily thing for me but I have never told any one.. that I can remember!

Jeanie, I have "mestinon" saved as speed dial #3 on my phone (the phone number is saved as 8-1... hahaha). I call when I take my mestinon and then later I look at my call log for the time I took my mestinon dose.
I agree with the others when they say it has more to do with so much going on rather than a symptom of MG.... a valium clears my mind a lot better than a mestinon does!
Love, Becca

I am noticing my short term memory loss.I read a lot and find I can';t remember what I have read or I am explaining something and can't think of a particular word.I do cryptic crosswords and have trouble with the lateral thinking.
I have often wondered is it because we are so introspectively preoccupied with our disease even subconsciously
Hubby has just got out of hospital with a small heart attack Ihave been busy with him. he has a history of heart problems and i have been the carer then it changed with my MG.
.. I really haven't thought about my MG but now he is out I notice it again. Learned helplessnes????

my memory some days is terrible and others seem ok, l find it very frustrating,l too have mentioned it to my neuro and he just says well as you get older these things happen, but this is scary at times.
My word finding capability has gone astray,and sometimes l really have to think about what l need to say or write before l do so.
Why is it that when l'm looking for my glasses l more often than not ask "have you seen my scissors" and when they bring me scissors l think what are you doing,and l realise l've done it again.as my family now ask do you want your glasses?......

In a reply to another topic, I added that I am new to this. I think this is going to be a great help to me. I would love to be a help to any one else also. I have a terrible time remembering if I have taken meds. I also use pill boxes. One for mestinon and one for the others. I have been so bothered about memory problems that I did actually discuss this with my neuro. He wasn't too concerned about it. It is reassuring to know that others with mg have similar memory problems and maybe I am really not getting Alzheimers. lol Thanks again for the help.

yes, I agree with all of you, have the memory loss, can't tell you how many times I have placed tea on the stove and forgot it... thank goodness my husband was home. I also seem to not do things as fast, like I have a slow motion speed, seem to notice this worse at work, guess cause I am trying to get all my work done.

This topic was brougth up at my last local support group and the leaders thought it was due to the neds we were on not the mg. However those of with the issue just looked at each other and winked.....we def. felt it is the mg. I see my neuro tomor. will bring it up....if i remember. lol.. Here is a wonderful example for me......this past weekend i was vacuumning with a sweeper i bought 2 mos. ago as i was goin over the wood floors with the roller brush on I thought why did i buy a sweeper that keeps the brush on when going on wood floors? This is going to scratch my floors and throw dirt around...Why did I do something so dumb like that?? JUst as I was finishing I realized that i forgot to push the switch that turns off the roller brush for wood floor vacuumning. Geez did I ever feel stupid. I used it properly before that day. My husband and I got a big with laugh that.!!!

wondering if this symptom has something to do with CO2 levels in the blood. I seem to recall (from one fo the wise souls on this board) that the O2 levels can be normal, but the CO2 levels can be high because of the MG -- making us groggy. And the only way to check is doing an arterial blood gas measurement.

But this may just be the MG talking...

~Joe