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I don't think my mind is normal and nobody takes my concerns seriously

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pumpkinsboo · 02/10/2022 18:40

I'm really worried and I have believed for years there's something wrong with my mind... more so now more than ever... I'm only 24 going on 25... my memory is absolutely appalling I know a lot of us have bad memory but I think mine is at a different level... for example, I'm a care worker and there's a woman who I grew close to because I saw her everyday for about a year or more when I was caring for her mother and I was walking past her house last night and completely forgot her name and it's taken until today to remember it... I literally spoke to her everyday for the last year... for I find myself forgetting all sorts of normal everyday things every single day... I find myself in conversations forgetting what simple words go into sentences ... for example and this is a daft example but it to put into perspective but it could be a sentence like "the house was so extremely cold" like I forget the use of a word like "extremely" and have totally brain fog with words when speaking .. does that make sense?

I find in sentences I get my words all mixed around and don't even notice sometimes like I've done it just now to my boyfriend I said "I've just fed my dad and spoke to my phone" I meant to say "I've just spoke to my dad on the phone" like what!! It's just seriously not normal.

I really do think something is wrong... I've had my bloods done loads of times and nothing comes back... I haven't had them done since being pregnant a year ago mind...

However I think they will say nothing has come back again... I suffer with occasional visual migraines also... I don't want to be insensitive and say I'm worried I have a tumour or something especially when my bfs mam died from a brain tumour but I do think something is wrong and I don't know how to be taken more seriously by the doctors... as I don't think they will ever check for something like that as I have no history of it etc...

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Sleepymum5O · 02/10/2022 18:58

Unless you have always been like this it might be ‘pregnancy brain’. I know after I had my daughter my memory went to pieces, and pretty much stayed that way.

Have you been to your Gp and said you are worried about your memory. Maybe you could find a test online that says “how old is my brain?”

I also suffer from migraine with aura.

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