Saying the wrong words for things

[YogaWannabe]

I’m actually getting a bit concerned about this. I seem to be constantly saying the wrong things for everything
“Can you put the dirty clothes in the oven”
“I left your lunch in the washing machine”

It happens multiple times a day and I’m barely out of my twenties. DD finds it hilarious but I’m finding it really frustrating and a bit worrying. Doctor put it down to stress but I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced this?

I do this all the time, so I hope it's fairly normal! My brain says one word, my mouth says another.

All the time! My children find it hilarious but it's started to concern me a bit. I thought I was the only one. Thankfully it seems not.

I do this, and also have word blindness - like, I am looking at the tissues at the other end of the sofa, and say to DH "can you pass me the...." and I just cannot find the word for tissues.

I am 40, and my mum had early onset dementia (not until her late 50s, but still) so I am completely and utterly paranoid! Not made a doctors appointment for it though.

I've been this way since having my first kid. It's definitely exhaustion.

Yep. Called motherhood.

This is one of my tell take signs that a migraine is starting.

Oooh duck that’s interesting

I started to notice that, but though i must be imagining it.

It happened to my granny when she had a stroke - she said things like windows instead of glasses, it was the wrong word but there was always a link. It was pretty obvious she'd had a stroke though and she was in her 80's not her 20's.

I did this for about a year. I’d ask people at work to pass the salad when I meant scissors etc (tended to be alliterative). I worked in dementia care and was worried even though my consultants laughed it off. I think it was stress as it stopped when I left that job and hasn’t happened in the last 2 years.

Oh dear God OP etc, I'm living your nightmare.

I'm 52 peri/menopausal (on HRT patches) with residual brain fog but these are the sorts of things that happen to me nowadays:

• when reading I'll read a word (I know the word and I see the correct word but (you know how you kind of 'read along' but in your head?), my brain inserts the wrong word.I'm totally aware it's happening as I read it
• I can't tell a story or something I saw to someone because as soon as it comes to the point where I have to say the person's name, that's it, I will not be able to find their name
• I also say the wrong name for things
• I also can no longer remember without Alexa Dot whether I have to get up and take something off the stove - if I don't set a reminder, I simply do not remember
• At work if someone's talking to me and asks me to do 3 things if I don't type it down straight away, I would forget
• I've also become very very clumsy. I drop things, I knock into doorways when I walk through them, I can be holding something then for no reason I just fumble it and it goes flying out my hand - it drives me NUTS!!

@JoinTheDots I feel like you. I feel I'm either going to go one of two ways either like my Granny who was compus mentus to the end, or the way of my mum, who got vascular dementia. Right now I feel it's going the latter tbh. I don't care for me, I'll be none the wiser, I just wouldn't want to become incapable until my youngest is 18.

Oh, I've not had a proper holiday since 2011....

Having said all that, I am in a pretty time pressured, delivery pressured job so it could be that although I enjoy a good bit of pressure actually, I think it's more the multitude of tasks, things to remember, events coming up, school events, jobs to do that is ruining me.

I think that the time to be worried is not when you forget a word, but when you forget what things actually are.
I remember the story about Ronald Reagan who apparently stood at home with a toothbrush in his hand saying that he knew what it was, but couldn’t for the life of him remember what it was for :(

I think we all get v tired: stressed and mix up words. So annoying that you know exactly what you want to say but the brain-tongue connection gets lost. I keep telling my dc that my brain is full up.

I do this, I’ve been doing it for a few years. I have b12 deficiency which can have brain fog effects, plus I’m on a medication which also has brain fog effects so I put it down to that. It only really happens if I’m distracted - so I’ll be telling DH or DS to do something while thinking about something else. If I’m properly concentrating on what I’m saying, it doesn’t happen.

Thanks for all your replies and for those going through similar!

I driven around for ages today repeating the three things I had to do and did them all in the wrong order so had to go back to my starting point if you know what I mean!

Very interesting regarding the B12 as I had been taking it for a while and felt much more alert and focused, I’m also on medication that gives me brain fog and makes me tired.

I know it sounds like no big deal but it’s so frustrating and a bit upsetting when walking around Tesco thinking “oh god why am I here again” but trying to act like I’m browsing casually but knowing I had come for something particular.

@Doinitforthekids, get your b12 levels checked by the GP. “Shoulder bumps” (walking into door frames) is a known side effect of b12 deficiency).

Thats really interesting! I bump into the door frames allllll the time. I assumed I was a bit dyspraxic or something. Will investigate B12 deficiency.

I will definitely look at it, thank you. What's the best form to get it in and where from? How much do I need/what strength?

Shoulder bumps are a symptom of B12 deficency? That’s so odd. I thought I was going mad walking into door frames ( and forgetting words) .

B12 deficiency causes all sorts of neurological issues and is very often undiagnosed. If you already have a diet rich in animal products (esp meat) and have low b12, it's probably because you can't absorb it by digesting, which means oral supplements aren't much use. I have intra muscular injections from the gp every 10 weeks or so, but I believe some gps won't do it. Some people inject themselves - the vials are available otc in eg Germany so you can buy them online and have them shippped to you. I haven't done this personally though. There's a fb group about it - b12 deficiency eventually causes pernicious anemia, which is fatal if untreated for long enough. Definitely worth asking your gp to test you is you're constantly tired and have developed brain fog and unusual clumsiness/coordination issues in the last couple of years after previously being fine. Go sooner rather than later as some of the effects end up irreversible if not caught in time - I doubt I'll ever get my coordination back now as I've been getting the jabs for 3 years now without I being fixed.

Sorry to go on but since I was diagnosed I've been horrified to find out how many people are misdiagnosed with depression or dementia etc when they just need b12.

That’s really useful, thanks 45 1/2

I get my bloods checked regularly as I have an under active thyroid and pbc. I keep getting tested for coeliac too but it’s negative. I do often wonder if my immune system is shot! Ive taken a vitamin b12 supplement for about 6 months as someone told me it was good for peri-menopause symptoms so I chucked it in with my ferritin tablets, I’m anaemic. If I was a horse...
I don’t think I can be vit B 12 deficient as a GP would have noticed but I’ll get my last bloods and check. Assuming it was tested for.
I keep hitting myself in the face with the water collected from my tumble dryer-I think it’s heavier than it is and, donk, I’ve hit myself with it again. It’s wierd.

Vegetarian diagnosed with depression too...

Argh... yoga I also meant to ask how old you are. It I forgot that’s why I was here!
Could it be peri menopausal symptoms? I sort of figured that’s what mine was.

Interesting thread. I saw the title and immediately thought Oh yeah, I do that all the time. Then I saw the post about b12 and mine came up low on a blood test a few weeks ago. So that could explain it.

Another pernicious anemia adult here. When I first got my bloods done I was told all was normal,
On a subsequent visit to the Drs I saw a locum who wanted to do bloods again, told him they Had been done 2 weeks prior and came back normal. He looked at my results and said my iron was so low because of B12 started me on injections immediately. NHS will only do them every 3 months but I now buy them from abroad and inject myself. All I can say is it’s life saving, I was coming home from work at 4pm and going to bed, had lots of problems with my sight and couldn’t use my vocabulary properly. All sorted. I’m also post menopausal and initially was told by a young Dr it’s normal to feel tired as you get older.!!!

Dogwalks2 do you think injection is the best way? The best way to do it? I used to work (non clinically) with district nurses who did this for housebound patients all the time so it sounded like a standard way of doing it - how expensive is it and how long does it last you? My eyesight's turned to crap as well - my knees have started going this last few weeks as well! I literally feel like I've aged 10 years in just the last 8 weeks or so. All my bodily parts are just breaking down!!

I kind of feel, for the first time, that I've actually (physically) started going into old age and that's pretty rubbish at 52. Along with the rapidly decreasing use of my mental faculties, I'm on a road to nowhere!! Taxi for 1 to the knacker's yard!