Forgetfulness and now a head CT referral - any experience?

[teaorcoffeetoday]

A bit long as I didn't want to drip feed! Apologies.

I'm 31 and the last 5 or 6 months I've been becoming increasingly forgetful; I've been forgetting lots of things. For example, when I've put something down, I'll instantly and I really mean instantly, forget where it is. I spend half my time looking for things I've 'lost', I've been late for things looking for my keys that I had only just had in my hand and I'll have put them down to get my bag and then I've forgotten where they are in a very short space of time and then I find I'm late because yet again I'm looking for my keys!

A few months ago I was driving to my nans (I do that drive at least once a week, at the most 3 times a week. It's only 20 minutes and I know the route. I always go the same way.) and I suddenly had this strange feeling of not recognizing where I was. It's quite hard to describe but I almost felt lost in the sense I didn't know where I was going and that I didn't recognise the journey or the roads etc. It was a straight road so I kept going and after about 5 minutes I was able to re-recognise where I was. I got to my nans and mentioned it and I just thought perhaps it was one of those 'glitch in the matrix' moments.

More recently I've been getting pain behind my eyes and headaches. I went to the optician who couldn't find anything wrong with my eyes and suggested I go to my GP for blood tests incase it was my thyroid or something causing the pain - I hadn't mentioned the forgetfulness or the weird 'glitch in the matrix' moment because I didn't think it was relevant really.

I finally got a GP appointment today and before I left my husband told me to tell her about the forgetfulness. I mean, it's very hard to get a GP appointment so while I was there I thought why not and decided I'd mention it.
To my surprise she took it quite seriously and asked me lots of questions like any change in personality (no) or any tingling or numbness (no), she asked if I'd been confused or anything and then I remembered about the time I went to my nans and I had that strange moment so I then mentioned that.

She now said she's going to refer me for a head CT scan and do some bloods.
To be honest I'm a bit freaked out by the head CT, the way my GP took it so seriously (I know this is a good thing!) and then also the day to day annoyance of trying to remember things! I’ve never been like this before. I’ve always been organised and on time for things.

I suppose I'm just looking to see if anyone has had anything similar happen to them, what it was and did it resolve?

Thanks.

Hi!
Sorry your going through this. Not sure if it's the same but I also forget things so much it's worrying. I am also 31. Headaches are awful. Painful eyes if I roll them slowly. I have numbness and tingling hands and legs on my right side. I have an appointment with neurologist in January and I just want to get it over with and know what the heck is going on. I also have dizziness ALOT.

Hi, I also have these kind of symptoms, I've been backwards and forwards for.the last year to the GP. But I've never been offers a head CT, I've had all kinds of blood tests, my GP has said it's likely fibromyalgia. Although I realize that this could not be the case. He said it can cause neurological symptoms, such as forgetfulness, it's called fibrofog. But again, a CT won't do you any harm and will give you piece of mind.

@teaorcoffeetoday I have been experiencing similar to you. Headaches and brain fog. I scared myself a few weeks ago when I couldn’t get my bearings in a familiar location. I felt so relieved when I saw something familiar that snapped me out of it. It was dark though... I’ve put it down to perimenopause because of my age. I’ve started to have tingling in my right hand recently. I thought this might be carpal tunnel. Your post is making me think maybe these symptoms could mean something else. Probably just a coincidence though. I don’t want to tell my GP because I think if I tell them I’m getting frequent headaches, they will tell me to come off the pill. I really don’t want to because it will mess me up.

Please see your GP

I've been experiencing the same thing (I'm 44). I got lost while driving to work last week! I work with numbers and the other day I wasn't able to do a simple calculation all of a sudden. Can it be hormonal? I get worse before my periods (and I'm having awful periods lately).
Hope all will be fine with you!