You are not alone with this issue. I have Pseudotumer Cerebri and I feel exhausted and very forgetful all day long. I have started to write notes to myself just as a reminder. I never had a problem with this before. At my job I was a very good multitasker and now it's just one thing at a time. When I get home from work (I work 8 hour days) I could go to bed and be perfectly fine just to sleep all night long but I can't do that. I don't know if it's the Diamox or the pseudotumor itself but I am sick feeling this way! It has been a year since I've been diagnosed and with not much improvement.

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Anige

I deal with it on a regular basis.

Both long term and short term. I've actually had that problem for a very long time, long before diagnosed with IIH. But I guess whenever that IIH began probably like a few years ago then it just made the memory issue a little worse.

Some of my first symptoms, aside from the worsening headaches, included memory loss. I made three errors at work right in a row, and I hadn't had a single one in the seven years I'd been there! Additionally, I live about 45 minutes away from my office and I was getting LOST on my way home! Literally, I couldn't remember where I was, I'd have to get off of the expressway or wait until I found a landmark to get my bearings.

I think it's safe to say you're absolutely not alone in this one.

Hugs,
Lisa

Heather -
I too have memory loss - so much so that I find it difficult dealing day to day. OMG so frustrating. I am hoping that this shunt surgery will help somehow with this by maybe taking the excess pressure off my brain.
I forget the days, years, month just about everything its awful! I feel like I"m constantly floating and lost and I'm not on Topamax anymore. Uhh!
:) Mandy

My last post then off to do laundy.
I used to have a huge freakin issue with this, its improving and i pray that things continue in this direction for me. I still forget things but nothing like before. Im sorry your going through this, i changed my diet, it wasnt an overnight improvement but gradual took about six months to get where im at now, and i continue to see good things i still have the pain, some anxiety, very few HA.

Crude, forgot to add that i have experienced heat intollerance since i was little, pituitary and hypothalmus issues cause this in myself. I am careful in the heat, especially the sun.

You are all fantastic...really. I could not ask for a better support system! Throw in my mom and viola, you've got the majority of my support right here!

As for the memory issues, I am getting more and more frustrated daily. I cannot stand this! I have been one to always know where I was going, to be my mom's "human map" and now, oh, how I hate this...I have to use VZ Navigator, ON MY PHONE for directions...I am not cool with that, at all! (This is to familiar places, let me remind you...)

And appointments and such...I had an appointment last week. I had written it down somewhere, time, directions to the office, etc...and then forgot where I wrote it down!! I still cannot remember...luckily my brother remembered the time and all for me.

And I have always wanted to be a journalist...I love to write...but I do not see that happening with this! I swear, it is getting worse, even though I do not feel worse physically.

It is tiring to forget things and fight to remember them. :(

Hugs to each and every one of you!

I cant remember what happened 5 seconds ago lol

Notsure - Isn't that annoying?! And just all over frustrating? I hate when I will be somewhere with my mom and she will bring up something that happened, or something we talked about, and I will be like "What are you talking about? I didn't do/say that!" And she will argue, strongly, that I did! I know she is right, but I cannot stand not remembering things I said/did. I used to think it was the pain killers or muscle relaxers I was on in the past...I know they played a part, but they were not all to blame. I know that now!

I hate this. :(

Heather