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Does anyone forget 'everyday words' regularly?

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OrisOnson · 02/02/2022 19:19

I'm finding myself doing this a lot lately, just normal everyday things! When I'm talking to someone and mid sentence I'll forget a word I'm looking for, I've noticed it more lately and it's worrying me.
I also get words mixed up sometimes, like mirror for window or vice versa.

Anyone else?

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ineedsun · 02/02/2022 19:19

Yes all the time. Worse since covid

GrolliffetheDragon · 02/02/2022 19:22

Perimenopausal, so yes. It's annoying as I've always been quite eloquent.

SnoozeAllDay · 02/02/2022 19:22

Yes all the time.

rolypolydoly · 02/02/2022 19:24

Yep, much worse since covid. Brain fog etc

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OrisOnson · 02/02/2022 19:25

I'm 29 if that helps, wondering if it's normal or I should see the GP?

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MaryAndHerNet · 02/02/2022 19:25

It's a normal thing. Watch most interviews with politicians and actors and the like and you'll find a lot of it.
Some people sort of stammer "um um um um" as their brain short circuits and searches for the cromulent word.

thistimelastweek · 02/02/2022 19:28

Oh yes. I used to know a lot of words .

It's not just the forgetting of words but sometimes I start sentences and forget where ...

AncientWhitedogpoop · 02/02/2022 19:29

I have this exact thing and I have to be on the phone regularly in my job and it's as though my brain loses the will mid sentence and I'm leaving a long pause whilst I grab for the right word!

I'm 38 and have been doing crosswords and puzzles and trying to tax my brain a bit more.

amusedbush · 02/02/2022 19:30

Yes but I’ve always attributed mine to my ADHD. It’s so frustrating, it happens a lot and it’s really embarrassing in interviews or when I’m lecturing. My brain goes completely blank, I can’t even think of a synonym so I end up bodging together a description of what I’m trying to say. It makes me sound like a small child Blush

SkippettyDoDah · 02/02/2022 19:32

Me too, it's so embarrassing. I had put it down to stress but now wondering about peri-menopause

IsadoraQuagmire · 02/02/2022 19:35

I've got an underactive thyroid and this was something I used to get before I was diagnosed and on the right medication dose. Like wanting to say "I'll put the kettle on" but forgetting the word for kettle? I get it sometimes now if my thyroid is a bit out of balance.

IsadoraQuagmire · 02/02/2022 19:37

I'm 25 incidentally, so quite near your age. Might be worth getting your thyroid checked, especially if you have other random symptoms (and thyroid symptoms are REALLY random, you wouldn't necessarily put them together to conclude there's a medical problem)

frankie001 · 02/02/2022 19:39

Yes! Once couldn’t remember the word for belt. Got my point across by saying “a bracelet for your waist!”

Smartiepants79 · 02/02/2022 19:44

Me!! Quite reassuring find out lots of others have the same.
Start to worry you’ve got some kind of early Alzheimer’s!
I’m also well read, eloquent with an excellent vocabulary so it’s quite frustrating.

Lulu1919 · 02/02/2022 19:54

Yes and names of people I work with and have done for 15 years !!!!

NannyGythaOgg · 02/02/2022 19:54

I'm 67 and I've always done it. It's always worse when I'm stressed or over tired.

The first time I remember it being a totally common word and I just couldn't think of the word I said to my daughter 'Put it in the ... the... the... oh that thing that keeps the food cold.

Another occasion, again with my daughter, I was on the way to the local shopping mal. Straightforward, route that I used regularly and I suddenly couldn't remember where I was. I was driving and I just had this sudden feeling that I couldn't recognise my surroundings and didn't know where I was. It only lasted a few seconds and then I was fine. This was well over 20 years ago and though I still lose the word quite frequently, I have no other symptoms of dementia.

pikapikapukachu · 02/02/2022 20:00

@amusedbush

Yes but I’ve always attributed mine to my ADHD. It’s so frustrating, it happens a lot and it’s really embarrassing in interviews or when I’m lecturing. My brain goes completely blank, I can’t even think of a synonym so I end up bodging together a description of what I’m trying to say. It makes me sound like a small child Blush
I have ADHD too so I've always done this a little. But recently it's got so much worse, which I'm guessing is due to the peri menopause. It is really embarrassing. I'm an AHP and I've had occasions recently where I've forgotten names of conditions etc when trying to explain health issues to my clients ConfusedBlush
NannyGythaOgg · 02/02/2022 20:10

I've just been upstairs to fetch something - got up there - did another job, came down and realised I had totally forgotten what I had gone up for and I need to go up again now.

Haus1234 · 02/02/2022 20:22

Yes, and I’m 30 so similar to you! It definitely feels like it’s happening more than it used to.

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