My memory has been getting worse for years now. My DC are school age now, but I still don't get a lot of sleep for one reason and another. I'm often running on empty from lack of sleep.
My memory is affecting my work.
It's like I'm in a fug a lot of the time.
I've been assuming this is just sleep deprivation, but now I'm starting to worry, what if it's not? It doesn't seem to be going away and it seems to be getting worse. A couple of examples that freaked me out a bit:
On Christmas Eve, after eating dinner with family, my DB and his wife got up from the table and I realised I couldn't remember who had sat where, literally 5 minutes after them leaving the table. One had been next to me and one opposite, and we'd eaten dinner and talked. I remembered the conversations. But not who had sat where. I found it a bit disturbing so I gave it some thought, but couldn't recall it.
Earlier this year, I went to see an exhibition of some art I love. DH got me tickets specially. I realised later that day, I couldn't remember the layout of the rooms we'd walked through, nor most of what I'd seen, my memory was more a general feeling of what it had been like being there and a couple of things we'd seen. I asked DH what he remembered and he seemed really surprised I remembered so little of the day in any detail.
I often can't remember names, including of people I know fairly well.
How could I tell if this was sleep deprivation or something else? If I tell the Dr I'm sleep deprived they'll just put it down to that anyway - won't they?
I'm mid-40s. When I was younger, I used to be pretty sharp.